One thing we have lots of in this old house is pottery, possibly because my grandmother-in-law, Anne Owen (Nancy) Goodfellow, was from Stoke-on-Trent in England, a city in Staffordshire that is also known as The Potteries. This week’s Retro Sunday items are two ceramic jugs I’ve noticed for years but never looked at in detail. …
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Retro Sunday: Ads from a 1930 children’s annual
A project I’ve had in the back of my mind for years is a book called Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House, built around the many interesting mid-century knick-knacks, oddments, thingamobs and whatchamallits in this house where my wife’s family has lived since 1939 and which is now my home. I did do a …
Photo of the Day: A Bottle of Seagram’s…
…that’s actually a lighter. What I can’t help wondering is…do you really want people to think of your fine Canadian whiskey as the apparent equivalent to lighter fluid? From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series. More photos here.
Photo of the Day: Alabaster Orange
From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series: an alabaster orange in a really lovely alabaster pedestal fruit bowl, both bearing small labels proclaiming them to have been “hand-carved in Italy.” More photos here.
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