Wooden Objects....

As you know I love a crazy or interesting donations and these few wooden objects definitely tick the interesting box.

The Elephant and the Giraffe are sadly broken, but WE love their quirks so much we have still decided to sell them, as we hope that someone else will love their quirks.
Possibly rosewood, but as we are not sure we cannot say for certain.
£5 sold as seen

Giraffe with no ears and Elephant with no tail...

It was this pair of African Art figures which wetted our appetite this week

Sold as a pair, these dark wood figures are known as fertility idols.

Hopefully not as potent as the ones at "Ripley's Believe it or not.." though!

Again, not sure of the wood they are carved from.

They are 24 inches (approx 62cms) tall.

No damage to them, which we can see and no splitting of the wood.

For sale as a pair for £50

Go on, give the belly a rub....

Bye for now
BG

100 year old books

I would love to own a 2nd hand antique bookshop one day. Although I wouldn't be able to sell any as I would want to keep them and touch them and smell them and look at them all the time. Actually I think I just want an old book Library!

This donation was fantastic from an interesting point of view.
3 HUGE bags of books, the 'newest' of which was from 1929.
The oldest was 1830, but sadly has fallen apart completely.

Some were first editions, others in French, some in German.
A smorgasbord of topics!

All of which we have researched and priced accordingly.
most are priced £2 - £4 but there are a few worth a lot more.

This one on Medieval Towns is £28 from 1906

We also have an Autoharp album £3, a book on Puritan England £4, and some French novellas £4 each.

Plus they look lovely with our 1950's and 60's and 70's novels (maybe we shall blog about those later!)

Bye for now
BG



It's a Boy!

So the Royals have a new king on their hands. Hurrah!

You can't not read about it today, as Kate Middleton gave birth to William's first child yesterday at 4.24pm yesterday.

AND he was a hefty one. 8lbs something or other.
We love a bit of Monarchy madness and this is definitely up there!
People clambouring all over Buckingham Palace gates. What do they expect to see? Still it was a 'party atmostsphere' according to all the papers.

Anyway, we are happy for them, here at Brook Green, but a bit miffed as we have a couple of new designer babygrows in PINK. *rolls eyes*

Baby Dior and Ralph Lauren. £10 each
0-3 months

Although we do have some Vilebrequin swimming trunks £8, which are boys, so Kate and Wills can still pop in for some goodies!

 

 

Bye for now
BG

Give in to Givenchy

Yet another donation which made me take a deep breath. Amazing items from last week are slowly being valued and priced and made presentable for sale, this is the first.... 

These 2 piece dress/shirt combination is Givenchy, but I guess I gave it away in the title!
The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy.
This is more 1980's then 1950's, but it is still a lovely piece on clothing.

The dress is embellished with multicoloured 'gems' in the top of the bodice. The shirt is covered at the cuffs and trim with the same 'gems' giving the overall outfit both subtle and not so subtle eye catching light.
They are both a size 10 (eur 38) but I would say they would fit a 12 (eur 40) as the dress and blouse are very loose fitting.

We couldn't find anything similar on the ol' internet and our friends in the know hadn't seen anything before, so I say it is super rare!* ha. 
(*don't quote me on that.)

There is some damage to this though, on the dress part there is a hole - see photo - but when both are worn you can't really see it.

Due to the damage this outfit is sold as seen.
£260

Wear the piece as the complete ensemble or just the dress for an evening out, or throw the blouse over a simple black camisole for instant glamour.

Bye for now
BG

Marvellous Marni M(shoes)

Everybody should own a pair of purple shoes. Men included. (But this is for ladies. Sorry fellas) 

So if you want some high fashion purple shoes at high street prices, look no further. We have some. (Of course we have some in or we wouldn't do this blog. Silly)

Marni is an Italian brand founded in 1994. Funky, quirky and yet feminine style, Marni uses bright colour within a neutral colour palette and these shoes are certainly bright.

They have been resoled and so the soles are now new and ready to be trampled down the road.

Size 4 (eur 37)
Yours for £70.

Bye for now
BG

Vintage designer items now in stock!

Sometimes, when I open a bag and pull out amazing things I think to myself "Why would you give this away?!". Definitely had that feeling today!

It is fantastic when we get these donations. What a great thing to do for Trinity Hospice. So this is how today went....
Few bags of stuff donated, nothing out of the ordinary in them, just lovely tops and skirts and dresses and books etc.
Then about 4pm an elderly couple came in.
They explained that Trinity Hospice had looked after a friend of theirs and so when they had a clear out that couldn't think of anything better then to donated the garments to us. 4 bin bags later and I am gasping at everything I pull out of the bags.

It is a who's who of fashion designers.

Chanel, Dior, Givenchy and Bill Gibb.

AMAZING, FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT!
*Squeeee* (Yes we are rather excited about these, in case you hadn't noticed!)

Obviously we shall share the items with you when we can - As soon as possible. Promise.
Time to get our friends in the know on the valuing job....

Bye for now
BG

Bodies

No, we haven't become a scene in some CSI type show, but we do have some half bodies in the shop.

Portraits. Well, not even portraits, but some medical type images all framed up.
A matching pair of full colour prints.

"Philips' Popular Manikin"
"Philips' Model of the Human Body"

Sized -
32cms frame x 54cms frame
15cms image x 38cms image

Taken from a book, but they were already framed when we got them.

£20 each or both for £30

They definitely need to be hung on a wall soon. They look so good.

Bye for now
BG