Hope!! Treasure Hunting Thursdays: Thrift Store Shopping Off Schedule
This calendar week I did something I ordinarily never practise - I stopped into a thrift store on a hateful solar daytime too fourth dimension that I ordinarily never practise - on a weekend night. I happened to live running an errand nigh ane of my regularly frequented thrift shops, too thence I figured I powerfulness equally good halt inward too run into what they had to offer. It was busy, equally I had idea it would be, simply I was surprised to run into the shelves pretty good stocked. Check out what I found!
This fiddling cherub vase or planter caught my oculus correct away. It's definitely Art Nouveau inward means (check out the flowing, wavy lines of the base of operations equally good equally the petals of the xanthous flower) too I would gauge it to live Edwardian or Victorian era. The bunnies at the bottom are unusual, too made me initially intend that this was an Easter piece, simply I actually don't know. I've seen ones where the planter component is egg-shaped, simply this one...I'm non sure. The mark looks to live similar ii arrows or lines that are imprinted over a missive of the alphabet C...so maybe German?
Well alongside a fiddling fight to a greater extent than research, it turned out I was able to put this slice as from the factories of Carl Schneider, Karl Unger, too Hermann Hutschenreuther. Wow! The mark was used betwixt 1879 too 1886 from their manufacturing flora inward Grafenthal, Thuringia, Germany. Cool.
The chipped fly in all probability brings the value downward (I paid.98 cents) simply it's all the same an interesting piece. I create got a habit of grabbing anything that is Art Nouveau, Art Deco, or Craftsman/Arts & Crafts style, too thence this ane came habitation alongside me. If I knew it had no monetary value, I would peradventure utilization it inward a mosaic. For now, it volition decorate my workshop.
Next I came across this...
I got excited when I institute this slice - the colors too pattern on this medium sized English linguistic communication transferware platter caught my attending correct away. I dearest the fruit motif too the pattern has a non bad Old World-verging-on-Nouveau experience to it. Now imagine this platter at a summertime picnic, filled alongside lemon squares. Yup!
I dearest the fruit motif alongside the traveling vine, too I intend they are peaches.
The background pattern is beautiful too.
This maker's grade is from closed to 1927.
This confront says, I desire to live inward the middle of things, simply at the same time, I desire to accept a nap!
Of course, I also create got to snap a photograph of the almost questionable things I run into at the thrift store. This calendar week it was this pitiful molded plastic puppy clutching this giant red-orange Victorian boot.
But wait!...
There's more!
Lesson for the day: I'm non actually sure. I gauge no thing what hateful solar daytime or what fourth dimension yous view a thrift store, yous never know what yous are going to find.
Do yous create got a treasure even out to tell?
Please percentage it alongside us yesteryear leaving a comment below!
Enjoy the residuum of your week.
Love, Laura
