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'Vintage mundane'

Spandex said:
I had one of those plates. We found it in the kitchen cupboard when we moved into a flat. Kept a plant pot on it while we lived there until it had an ingrained circle of dirt on that wouldn't clean off, so we left it behind when we moved out.


I had a knife just like the top one. Again, I think we found it when we moved into a flat. Had it for a while, but somehow the blade ended up all burnt :hmm::D


That set says 'church hall' to me.

I'll always have a soft spot for the Meakin Poppy set that my mum had in the 70s:
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Ha, we definitely had those!
 
Puddy_Tat said:
i've also got mum-tat's old GPO 706 phone (akin to this one)

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there are people who will convert them so they work on current sockets, i just haven't quite got round to it yet.
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I had one in my old house - my flatmate nicked it from the council office she was working in. Then I sold it at a car boot after she moved out, so double theft :D
 
Coffee cups brought back from a family holiday in Brittany in the mid-70s. I love one of them and use it regularly (the other was subject to one of Pa Oryx's dodgy repairs with glue so is purely ornamental).

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Brandy glasses my OH 'inherited' from his great aunt:

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there are other sorts? :eek:

I think that most things I own are sort of vintage mundane - when I moved oo 22 years ago I did the tours of charity shops and household antique type auctions for metal bins and old weighing scales (for the dog food) and metal/ceramic dishes and smallish wooden boxes for holding things and the like. I try to avoid plastic where I can except for engineering plastics I don't mind them.

I do have an old wooden radio that does seem to work but fewer and fewer stations seem to be on medium wave and Home Service :(
 
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There was also this one (or so thing like this)
Ironically in the house of our neighbours circa 1976
 

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ash said:
Does anyone remember Poole Pottery or was that just a local thing to me?
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Yes, my parents had a beautiful Poole Pottery tea/coffee set which I think was a wedding present, and was rarely if ever used.

(I gave it to my best mate and her husband as a thank you present for witnessing my mum's will, which was a huge help!).
 
oryx said:
Yes, my parents had a beautiful Poole Pottery tea/coffee set which I think was a wedding present, and was rarely if ever used.

(I gave it to my best mate and her husband as a thank you present for witnessing my mum's will, which was a huge help!).
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I think they might be quite sought after now.
 
ash said:
Does anyone remember Poole Pottery or was that just a local thing to me?
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I think I've got a couple of small pieces. The auction up the road does sometimes have some Clarice Cliff and Troika which I'd love to have but I'd be scared shitless of having around the house because I break things like that :(. Same reason I don't have glasses in the house - I drink mugs of beer, wine, port and rum which I think explains a lot ::oops:
 
two sheds said:
I think I've got a couple of small pieces. The auction up the road does sometimes have some Clarice Cliff and Troika which I'd love to have but I'd be scared shitless of having around the house because I break things like that :(. Same reason I don't have glasses in the house - I drink mugs of beer, wine, port and rum which I think explains a lot ::oops:
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I was given a whole set by my parents when I left home in 1985 and got rid of it as I thought it was old fashioned. I regret that now 🙄
 
Do also have an electromagnetic clock which I love dearly and brought back to life as it didn't work when I bought it from the auction. Doesn't work again at the moment though :(
 
two sheds said:
I think I've got a couple of small pieces. The auction up the road does sometimes have some Clarice Cliff and Troika which I'd love to have but I'd be scared shitless of having around the house because I break things like that :(. Same reason I don't have glasses in the house - I drink mugs of beer, wine, port and rum which I think explains a lot ::oops:
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You could start a line in rubber drinking vessels. :)
 
We have these things in near-daily use.
Now fashionable, the lamps were mundane.

The blender was my mum's, she bought it new in the mid 1970s. Needs a new seal gasket, so leaks a bit, but I can't bring myself to replace it.

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We used to have a few dishes and plates with recipes printed into them too. I know for sure we had a pizza plate with a recipe on it, an apple pie one too.
 
I got some Dutch hand-painted boerenbont plates when I lived in NL in the 70s/80s. I did try to replace some of the broken/chipped ones 10 or 15 years ago and they're silly money and different markings on the back with 'microwave safe' :rolleyes: so I didn't bother

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I do love the old scales, too. Have a set a bit like this for weighing out the dog biscuits.

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Friend came round and asked why I don't just use a cup but I don't want to just use a cup :mad: I like weighing things out on scales.
 
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We’re about to start clearing more stuff from the stable. We have previously found wedding presents from 1960s which had never been opened. I’m hoping for more surprises but think that it’ll mainly be ordinary stuff. Wee know that there’s some of our wedding pressies being stored there, but they’re only from 1992.
 
two sheds said:
I got some Dutch hand-painted boerenbont plates when I lived in NL in the 70s/80s. I did try to replace some of the broken/chipped ones 10 or 15 years ago and they're silly money and different markings on the back with 'microwave safe' :rolleyes: so I didn't bother

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I do love the old scales, too. Have a set a bit like this for weighing out the dog biscuits.

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Friend came round and asked why I don't just use a cup but I don't want to just use a cup :mad: I like weighing things out on scales.
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You'll have the last laugh when they suddenly change the density of the biscuits.
 
I'm a habitual user of a set of Salter scales and mixing bowls - originally I think a wedding present of my parents which I've inherited. The scales aren't cut out for drug deals but work just fine for baking (very easy to operate with gunged-up fingers) and the mixing bowls are still the best I've ever used.

Mine are actually black and yellow, but I also inherited matching orange bowls from my grandparents.

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Ron Merlin said:
Those string and nail pictures from the 60s/70s - we had some in the family home when I was little, as I recall. Bought a couple recently:
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Brilliant thread btw :thumbs:
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Spent many hours doing these as part of a crafts class at school. Think all the ones I did for my parents and older relatives have either been lost or given away over the intervening years.
 
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