This Week’s Vintage Finds #107

Hi everyone! I did a surprising amount of vintage shopping last week: my sweet daughter and I hit Salvation Army on Wednesday (1/2 off day), my sweet sister and I hit Goodwill on Friday, and my sweet husband and I hit an estate sale, [another] Goodwill, and a Restore. I made a few vintage purchases, nothing like summer/fall when the garage sales are going strong, but satisfying nonetheless.

Now that I’ve posted a Transferware Price Guide, I’m noticing it everywhere, including Salvation Army, where I found this “Vista” pattern red transferware cup and saucer (cost:; $1.99, value: $10-12.00).

You will typically find “England” used after 1891 (generally) and “Made in England” used after 1923, so this set dates from approximately 1891-1923.

Speaking of red transferware, here we have a red willow dinner plate (cost: $1.00, value: $8-10.00).

The Willow pattern has been around for a few centuries, but by 1948, the Royal China company of Sebring, Ohio, had become the world’s largest producer, due in large part to their having developed a new process for creating transferware that no longer involved firing the patterns on via the tissue paper.

This striking blue transferware souvenir plate by Wedgwood commemorates an old windmill on Nantucket (cost: $1.00, value: $20-30).

As with the Mason cup and saucer, we can date this souvenir plate from after 1891, and in this case to 1908, when Wedgwood began marking their wares, “Made in England.” There’s a lot of information on the back of this plate, including the stamp of the American importer, Jones, McDuffee, Stratton, Co., Boston. The mark “Etruria” refers to the town in which Wedgwood was located. When I lived in England (2009-11), I visited the Wedgwood museum in Staffordshire, threw a blue jasperware bowl in the museum workshop, and even had the chance to take a couple of day classes at their college. Yea, it was pretty amazing.

Moving away from fine china, I picked up this rather ordinary baking dish at Good will (cost: $2.00, value: $8-10.00), manufactured by an all-American company, the Hall China Company. In the early 1900s, they developed a one-firing method of producing their ceramics. This in part led to them eventually become the world’s largest producer of teapots. They are also well known for their “Jewel Tea” line, wildly popular in the 70’s and 80’s. Hall is still in production.

Like Royal China, Hall manufactures out of Ohio. I bought this restaurant ware baker (or au gratin) because people often buy them for soap dishes and I’ve been selling them like crazy at the Christmas craft fair I’m involved in.

Switching gears now, how about this cow-shaped cutting board? Kinda cute or kinda not? Well, he was just too original not to pick up (cost: $3.99, value: $20-25.00).

Just because no bread board should be left behind (cost: $1.00, value: $5-6.00).

While we’re on wood, I thought this was a rather nicely-made, Shaker-style band box (ignoring the [atrocious] sheep stenciled on the lid). I’ll have to paint at least the lid in order to hide said sheep (cost: $2.99, value: $20-25.00 once painted w/a new stencil or graphic transfer applied).

Another Goodwill find, this newer Big Ben has a great vintage look and for the price, I decided to add him to my “collection” (cost: $2.99).

Nice English tobacco tin (cost: $1.00, value: $10-12.00).

I recently bought a bag full of vintage maps and thought this display box would be perfect to hold them, after a nice paint job (cost: $2.00).

I’m always looking for new, interesting pillows since my kids seem to go through ours pretty quickly. I bought two of these beauties at Goodwill (probably new, Target brand) and paid a bit more than I’m used to (at a thrift store), but they are down-filled and they feel fabulous (cost: $7.99 each).

Two days later, at the estate sale with my sweet husband, I discovered another pair of pretty amazing pillows [down-filled as well] that had to be purchased (cost: $2.00 each).

Looking pretty spiffy on our family room couch, right?

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