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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Robsjohn-Gibbings? At least, that's what they remind me of. Very, very nice, and they seem very well-made. Edit: Donald Deskey made some designs for Thomasville, so he would be a good bet. In that case, congrats!
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    Grooming Set...Anyone Familiar With this One?

    That looks like a very well-made set from beween, say, between the mid-thirties and the mid-fifties. Looks like wood with sterling silver fittings? Any hallmarks or other markings? The fact that the metal is used so sparingly points to sterling. To check for silver, take it to a a good...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Very true - the Big Names like Nelson and Eames will always command a premium. There are lots of no-name stunning MCM furniture to be found still, though. I've given up on buying the big names, though, the pieces are better investments, but the prices may just have taken a toll with the crisis...
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    Ocean Liner Items Collecting

    Thanks! I have no regrets about buying it - the price was quite good for what it turned out to be.
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Yes! It's either that, or we'll put the corner sofa in storage and get another sofa for that "niche" in the wall. I'm dreaming of a Josef Hoffmann "Kubus" sofa, but they cost something like $12K... And then I'd probably want the armchair too: It's a very Norwegian thing! I haven't...
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    I found an 18thC table in the attic - pictorial

    Well, it's time for a three-year thread revival, I suppose, - I completely forgot about this thread, it seems. My apologies, and thank you all for kind words! Update: I had two glass sheets cut and chamfered, one to go into the "bottom" of the table-top, the other one to rest at the outer...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Living-room: I'm planning on placing the corner sofa around the fireplace, and having the diinner-table by the window/balcony, like the previous occupants. That huge cabinet/shelf thing has left, and will be replaced by something lower. "Nursery": Thankfully, the previous...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Here's a few photos of the new place, it's from the sales brochure, so none of the furniture and stuff is ours, although some very nice pieces, I have to admit. 1939 and 1950s photos: The penthouse flat was originally built as a place-in-town for Wagner soprano Kirsten...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Thank you! That's very high praise in my ears - Gray is one of my absolute designer favourites. Actually, I'm loving the new place; it's a 1939 building in a far more radical modernist/international style, and built to higher standards - there's polished oak floors, a big fireplace, a...
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    Ocean Liner Items Collecting

    Some of my family travelled quite a bit across the Atlantic in the late forties and fifities, so I have some trinkets of the "passenger souvenir" type - pocket knives, matchbooks, luggage tags, etc., mostly from The Norwegian America Line. A lot of it was thrown out when we cleared up my...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Here's the estate agent's photos. (We're somewhat reluctantly selling, as the son-and-heir arriving in a couple of weeks demands his own room, better kindergartens and schools than in the area - and we wanted an elevator, at least if we were going to live six tall flights up with a small child.)...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    We also bought a late 17th century table (OK, I'd say roundabout 1700 exactly), and some mid-century-modern chairs that match passably in the tone of the wood: And a cocktail cabinet, wedding present form my co-workers:
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Furniture: There's the rococo table from this thread, that's already moved over to our new apartment. Some tubular steel furniture we bought in various places and had reupholstered, here's the "before" condition: And after:
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Third post; I managed to find doorhandles of the correct type for the whole apartment, nickel-plated, with bakelite grips. (Pics later.) We also changed the frames around the windows from a very misunderstood previous attempt at "retro-ing" the place. The simple square ones are far more...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Continuation (please bear with me, the apartment gets better in time)... View from kitchen or living-room, sundown: Same side, late afternoon: And in winter: View from bedroom, late afternoon:
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Here's the "blank canvas", as it was around three years ago - this was taken the day before the electrician was coming in, then carpenters, painters...we were confined to the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen while they were doing up the living-room, dining-room/office and hall, which took them a...
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    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Yes, if I can find one - my wife likes it. The best ones are sort of rainbow-striped. Very Paul Smith. There will also be a wicker basket, I'm told. It's at this place, being given the spa treatment. (Norwegian-only webpage, sorry)
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    Vintage Fire Extinguishers

    Some stuff; first, a 1940-dated extiguisher, quite similar to a couple of the ones in the ad above: A fireman's helmet, ca. 1870: Late 19th C extinguisher: Early 19th C fire-buckets in leather: The buckets are contemporaries of this type of "extinguisher", these were...
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    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    This merengue/ice cream/jam/jelly man concoction was invented by a couple of friends of mine last Saturday. We debated whether to name it "Winter warfare" or "Retreat from Moscow":
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Found a Norwegian 1940 model DBS, ("Den Beste Sykkel" - "The Best Bicycle"), dated from the Schweinfurt Torpedo back hub, - these are always dated by year and month. My wife loves it already. Paid ~$90. Also; a 1930s gavel, made from bakelite and some sort of bone-like material. Paid...

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