'Vintage mundane'

[Cloo]

Just watched a video of a guy describing how he loves 'vintage mundane' - stuff that is old but not especially rare or feted, but is just pleasing somehow. I guess it might be to do with comfort and familiarity - stuff like this crockery everyone had when I was growing up that still have affection for. I literally found it by googling 'that brown crockery set everyone had' (it's Denby 'Arabesque')

gsv was inordinately fond of the crappy old cube clock radio he'd had for decades until it finally died a few years ago, I think it might have been this model:

What are your 'vintage mundane' favourites?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Myself.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Tupperware, still got a couple of bits. Those knives with the cream handles.

 

[danny la rouge]

We have a hostess trolley that we inherited from Mrs LR’s late mother. I’ll maybe post a pic later, but it’s time for Traitors.

 

[Cloo]

Tupperware, still got a couple of bits. Those knives with the cream handles.

I love the way there are some things that just everyone knows what they are by description. Like the teacups with the orange flowers.

 

[Aladdin]

Cloo we had that tea / dinner set too growing up. None of it left now though.

My aunt had jadeite green milk glass handles on an old press in the kitchen..

I also remember really liking a goblin teasmaid.

 

[Silas Loom]

My parents got that Denby set as wedding presents in 1969, and they have been replacing broken items from charity shops and online flea markets ever since. So it’s still their default crockery.

 

[Silas Loom]

Cloo we had that tea / dinner set too growing up. None of it left now though.

My aunt had jadeite green milk glass handles on an old press in the kitchen..

I also remember really liking a goblin teasmaid.

Teasmades, sadly, not teasmaids, however appealing the idea of a goblin in a frilly pinafore.

 

[krtek a houby]

Just watched a video of a guy describing how he loves 'vintage mundane' - stuff that is old but not especially rare or feted, but is just pleasing somehow. I guess it might be to do with comfort and familiarity - stuff like this crockery everyone had when I was growing up that still have affection for. I literally found it by googling 'that brown crockery set everyone had' (it's Denby 'Arabesque')

gsv was inordinately fond of the crappy old cube clock radio he'd had for decades until it finally died a few years ago, I think it might have been this model:

What are your 'vintage mundane' favourites?

We had the cube clock.

Favourite vintage item, my mom had a Vogue mirror in the 70s (which was already faux retro because of the 1920s art design on it)

And people's homes with the faux stained glass windows. Liked them.

 

[Aladdin]

Teasmades, sadly, not teasmaids, however appealing the idea of a goblin in a frilly pinafore.

Ah ok..as a kid I thought it was teasmaid.. ..

 

[Silas Loom]

Ah ok..as a kid I thought it was teasmaid.. ..

It should have been.

 

[Epona]

Oh I love stuff like this!

These sherry glasses, I have mentioned them before. They aren't rare or valuable, but they are old, and they have an interesting bit of history - they are from the early 20th Century (1920s I think), when department stores were becoming popular.
These intricately patterned glasses were produced using an acid etching technique that made them quick and cheap to mass produce, and they were sold in department stores to far more ordinary people than would have been able to have similarly fancy looking patterned lead crystal or cut glass items prior to this.

I have a set of 6 that belonged originally to my Great Great Aunt, and I absolutely love them, they are pretty and delicate and quite elegant and look kind of "of an era" iykwim.
I expect I am not the only one to have a set of these glasses, or something similar

 

[Cloo]

My parents got that Denby set as wedding presents in 1969, and they have been replacing broken items from charity shops and online flea markets ever since. So it’s still their default crockery.

Yup, it was my parents' wedding present set in 1972! I think enough of it broke that it was replaced by the late 80s, bar maybe a serving plate or two

 

[Epona]

Interestingly and rather serendipitously in terms of this thread, my mum emailed me about an hour ago, asking if I wanted her early '80s "Eternal Beau" tea and sugar cannisters - she's had them ages, in fact I think she mentioned that I bought them for her as a gift at some point. I think she finds them a bit heavy for daily use these days, but I'll happily have them. I need new tea bag and sugar cannisters as it happens!

Not at all rare or valuable, but a very recognisable design in kitchenware/tableware of that era I think.

 

[Orang Utan]

Those French mustard jars that are actually whiskey glasses

 

[Epona]

Those French mustard jars that are actually whiskey glasses

Oh, also add to that Nutella glasses, and that Polish mustard which is very nice on Polish and other Eastern European sausages, that comes in a half pint beer jug.

 

[xenon]

thread just reminded me. I have a few bits in boxes I need to go through from our old family home. i’ll probably get rid of a lot of it to be honest. But the green glass biscuit jar. Need to find that. it’s older than me I reckon. has a slightly malformed glass stopper lid. my sister got the White with black block capital lettering, tea coffee and sugar jars, With cork lids. I have also got some Keith Floyd cast iron pots. They are really good, they don’t move if you nudge the handle. Think my mum won them in a raffle back in the 80s.

 

[xenon]

Those wide glass tumblers with a smoke black bottom. I was gutted when I broke the last remaining one.

 

[xenon]

Oh yeah the plastic stained glass. That seemed quite popular in the 80s.

We had the cube clock.

Speaking of mirrors. I’m really gutted this got thrown out but my mum had a mirror that said enjoy cocaine on it. Written in the Coca-Cola font. She was not a Charlie fiend. it was hidden out of view, next to the microwave. I remember asking what cocaine was when I was a kid.

Favourite vintage item, my mom had a Vogue mirror in the 70s (which was already faux retro because of the 1920s art design on it)

And people's homes with the faux stained glass windows. Liked them.

 

[WouldBe]

I've got my grandparents tea, coffee and sugar caddies. Nothing special just plain stainless steel with a wooden knob and stick on labels.

 

[story]

Oh yeah the plastic stained glass. That seemed quite popular in the 80s.

Speaking of mirrors. I’m really gutted this got thrown out but my mum had a mirror that said enjoy cocaine on it. Written in the Coca-Cola font. She was not a Charlie fiend. it was hidden out of view, next to the microwave. I remember asking what cocaine was when I was a kid.

I don’t know how well/if you can see this xenon but I’ve found your mum’s cocaine mirror on EBay for a cool £5000

Special Vintage Art Mirror Cocaine coca cola Unique one off mirror | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Vintage Art unique Mirror.. One Of a kind Cocaine Coca Cola..</p>

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[PTK]

Tupperware, still got a couple of bits. Those knives with the cream handles.

Those knives with cream handles! I had forgotten them!

 

[Humberto]

Me dad used to find shit on building sites. A screw on cherry flavoured toothpaste lid from the 20s/30s. Carved stone and embossed. A bottle with engraved(?) or super embossed writing from a local brewary.

Used to find coins out and about for some reason. Had a king George the third, early Victoria and late Victoria and various other stuff. I've lost most of them and the ones remaining have degraded.

 

[krtek a houby]

We have a hostess trolley that we inherited from Mrs LR’s late mother. I’ll maybe post a pic later, but it’s time for Traitors.

Ahh, memories of Xmas past. Fire in the hearth, Wizard of Oz on RTE ,and dearest mom yelling at us that the dinner was getting cold.

The dinner that was nestling in the hostess trolley.

 

[Humberto]

 

[xenon]

I don’t know how well/if you can see this xenon but I’ve found your mum’s cocaine mirror on EBay for a cool £5000

Special Vintage Art Mirror Cocaine coca cola Unique one off mirror | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Vintage Art unique Mirror.. One Of a kind Cocaine Coca Cola..</p>

www.ebay.co.uk

Can’t see the picture. But it definitely sounds like it. As I recall it had red writing. I thought I had misremembered but mentioned it to my aunt years later and she confirmed it was vintage and maybe valuable. But got chucked out.

 

[story]

Can’t see the picture. But it definitely sounds like it. As I recall it had red writing. I thought I had misremembered but mentioned it to my aunt years later and she confirmed it was vintage and maybe valuable. But got chucked out.

Yes, red writing in the Coca-cola font, with a swooping line across the whole mirror under which it reads, in black “It’s the real thing”.

What a shame it got binned.

 

[krtek a houby]

A lovely radio from the 50s, mom wanted me to have. Sister got rid of it. Don't really care if it was worth anything, it was beautiful and sentimental.

 

[story]

Those knives with cream handles! I had forgotten them!

Tupperware, still got a couple of bits. Those knives with the cream handles.

Like this?

 

[Thora]

Soup bowls that I think came from a garage?