Featured Collectible - Ransburg Pottery & Metalware

I'm sure I have mentioned my love of Ransburg somewhere on here before. I love it so much, in fact, that I started a Flickr group for Ransburg a while back, that is unfortunately still pretty small (only 15 members?!?). I guess Ransburg love isn't quite as universal as I was hoping it was...

I did find one collector site for Ransburg, The Ransburg Collection - it looks like it hasn't been updated lately, but it still has a TON of great info, more than I could give you in one blog post!

I don't find Ransburg items all that often, so when I do see it I snatch them up. I found a canister set last weekend, which inspired me to do this post - here it is, currently at auction on eBay:

 Vintage Ransburg Metal Fruit Canister Set

Cute or what? I don't think I've ever seen a Ransburg design that I didn't like... They produced a lot of metalware, as well as hand painted stoneware pottery pieces, right during that mid-century timeframe that is so hard to resist. Their style is very distinctive, once you have seen a few pieces you can usually spot them a mile away. They are also very often marked with the distinctive paint palette logo, which is a great help!

Let's have a look around and see what all is out there at the moment, shall we?

Vintage Metal Bread Box RARE TWO DRAWER TIN Ransburg

 VINTAGE~CHIC~HP TOLE BALL COOKIE JAR~SHABBY~RANSBURG

 Vintage Ransburg White Tin Canister Set Fruit Motif

 Vintage Ransburg Square Cake Holder Carrier

(uh oh, this matches the pattern I have in my kitchen - kind of wish I hadn't of seen this one...)

 Vintage Ransburg Red Orange Plaid Bouquet Water Pitcher

 Vintage 1950's Metal Black Poodle Wastebasket Ransburg

(A black poodle trash can? Are you kidding me? *drool*)

 Vintage Ransburg Canisters & Cake Cover

 Vintage Yellow Ransburg Foil Wax Paper Dispenser Holder

 VINTAGE Ransburg Retro Olive Bread Box Mushrooms 70's

And on that note, I have got to quit or my PayPal account is going to be mysteriously empty come tomorrow morning. Mushrooms and butterflies on avocado green? You're killing me Ransburg, just killing me. ;) 

Industrial Chic & Medical Geek - New At Auction This Week!

Sorry, I couldn't resist the rhyming. ;)

We didn't get many auctions listed this week - other projects ate up a good chunk of time, as tends to happen every once in a while... Hopefully this coming week will be more productive, my "to be listed" pile is growing - which is never a bad thing!

Most of what I did list falls into Industrial Chic or Medical Geek categories - hence the title of this post! Plus a few other goodies thrown in there for good measure - check it out:

 Vintage Mid Century Modern Metal Adjustable Arm Wall Lamp

(I literally unscrewed this beauty from the wall at an estate sale last weekend - after scrounging through the entire house looking for a screwdriver! Sooo worth it, click on through to check out the close up of the little cutout stars design on the shade! *swoon*)

 Vintage Industrial Gray Metal File Box Carrying Case

 Vintage 2 Level Steel Metal Paper Letter File Desk Tray 

 Vintage Thermos Black Metal Lunchbox Lunch Box Retro

 Vintage Medical Apothecary Glass Jar Metal Lid Set Lot 

 Vintage Alcohol Medical Apothecary Glass Jar Set Lot 

 Vintage Hazel Atlas Milk Glass Cold Cream Dispenser Jar

(This jar is kind of a mystery - it looks like other Hazel Atlas cold cream jars I've seen, but the spring style dispenser I haven't seen before - there is a hole in the lid so you can push down on the spring... Anyone have any ideas?)

 Vintage Clairol Kindness 20 Hot Rollers Hair Curlers 

 Pair Vintage Convex Glass Silhouette Pictures 4x5 Set 

 Vintage Ballerina Dancer Diamond Chalkware Wall Plaques 

 Vintage Wood Holland Dutch Kid Children Wall Key Holder 

 Vintage Thermo Serv Zenith Chromacolor TV Coffee Mug Set 

(I love these more than words can describe...)
  

And that's it! Not much, but all good stuff... :)

Collection Complete - Vintage Better Homes & Gardens Decorating Books

I did it! It only took a few years, but I have successfully thrifted all the vintage Better Homes & Gardens binder style decorating books. Check it out:

 Last weekend I found the elusive 1956 turquoise cover one at an estate sale for 50 cents (!!). Technically my collection was complete then, but since I had the gold boxed version of the 1961 edition rather than the black cover version, I thought well, I will try to get that too - and then I will be content.

So what do I find this weekend at an estate sale for $1.00? Yep - the last piece of the puzzle. The thrifting gods were on my side!

Now I just need to start scanning pages...

Hooray for Spring! Tons of AMAZING new goodness up for grabs!

Like I mentioned the other day, last weekend was my first really good weekend of shopping out at the sales - I came home with so much great stuff I was positively giddy! After a long winter it was SO nice to be out in the nice weather treasure hunting again...

So, be prepared, this is going to be a long post - I'm in love with so much of what I found that I won't be able to leave much out... ;) As always, click the photos to enlarge, or click the link under the photo to go check out the listing and see all the other photos!

Lg Vintage Paint By Number Painting Set France Street Scene

(These are nice and large - 14"x30" - they would be so awesome over a couch!)

Vintage Framed Paint By Number Still Life Painting Set

Vintage Textured Ceramic Hand Glove Mold Display Stand

(You don't know how hard it is for me to part with this... WOW.)

 Vintage Ceramic Figural OWL Cookie Jar Canister Retro

 Vintage William Fuld Ouija Talking Board Parker Brother 

(I already have one of these, or it wouldn't be for sale!)

 Vintage Spaulding Royal Copley Pheasant Bird Figurine Set

(These are such a must have for a mid century decor!)

 Vintage Lady Schick Portable Tabletop Salon Hair Dryer

 Vintage Royal Arrow Portable Typewriter Glass Keys 1949

(This typewriter is SO NICE - and it has the coveted glass keys, in an unusual shape!)

 Vintage Rand McNally World Portrait Globe Metal Stand 

 Set of 4 Vintage Ceramic Tiki Mugs Tumblers Barware 

 Old Vintage Wood Spinning Globe World Bookends Set 

(Another really, really want to keep score... *sigh*)

 Vintage Mid Century Modern Metal Double Gooseneck Desk Lamp 

(I've never seen a double one before!)

 Vintage Mid Century Modern Green Ceramic Table Lamp 

 Vintage MB 1979 SUPER SIMON Game Complete Box Works 

Ok, I've worn myself out... lol There is more though, click on over if you want to see the rest! And wish me luck - I have a big day of shopping tomorrow... :D

Vintage 1970's Wallpaper Samples - YUM.

I had a *great* weekend out at the sales - I found so much cool stuff, I can't wait to show it to you once I have it all listed! One thing I found and listed last night I have to go ahead and show you now, because it really does deserve its own post - it is a sample book of vintage vinyl wallpaper. There is no date on it, but I would guess from the papers that it is from the 70's.

 Vintage Vinyl Wallpaper Sample Book Retro Mid Century

It has dozens of papers, in all kinds of patterns - including a few that are metallic! I think the previous owner was using it for craft projects, some of the pages are cut and some are loose, but the majority are there and unharmed. It is great as a reference too - you just don't see this kind of thing every day!


Ok, let's look at some of the papers - you might want to grab a bib, it's a little hard not to drool looking at these... ;) Click to enlarge!

Of course this isn't all of the papers in the book, it is just a sampling - if you want to see them all you will just have to place a bid! ;)