What do you collect ?

Cheers Karin! :USETHUMBUP:

I do have an awful weakness for trashiness and kitsch.

And I'm loving reading about everyone's collections - this is such a great thread!

Sarah
 
Hi! I'm new to the forum and from California

I collect;

Tiki mugs from the Islander in Stockton, CA (my hometown

Costume jewelry (Eisenberg, Trifari)

Le Creuset

and any vintage clothing that is my size that I can wear! My latest purchases are a Jacques Heim coat..

I wore an Emma Domb to my high school junior prom in 2002. (That's dating me, I'm a young one!)

and my latest obsession are Mr. John hats. I just got a paisley turban and have a neat cream fedora type in the mail.

Can't wait to read all the responses!
 
Sue said-"I have a memory shelf in my kitchen full of things either owned by my mother or things that say mother, plus some pictures of her through the years." How fabulous-I love that!

Like Kristine said...a list of what I don't collect would probably be easier to come up with.

I collect:

squirrels and old english sheepdogs -but they have to be unusual and fabulous
hands displays-dresser
50's circle skirts with applique, border prints or embroidery
vintage miniature Steiff animals
Courac Trays
sock monkeys
thick vintage restaurant ware coffee mugs with logos from the restaurant or coffee shop
gold charms-vintage, movable, stanhopes
silver charms from places I go
mid century modern lamps & furniture
purses-unusual vintage ones
vintage mail order dress catalogs
vintage fabric indusrty magazines

Used to collect (have a bunch of but don't buy many anymore)
vintage buttons
vintage pins/buttons
mannequins vintage
wigs-don't laugh. I started buying them for the mannequins but nothing is more fun then hauling out the box of wigs when things get a little dull.
vintage suitcases


On the hunt for now (new obsession)
Dorothy Kindell pottery especially her strip tease pitcher and 6 mug set

i am sure there is more....
 
I collect too many things honestly.. but for example I LOVE vintage travel & souvenir scarves

Here are two I recently purged from my personal collection, they are in my Etsy shop:wub:



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Mostly I just collect things that strike my fancy but here are some of the things I like best

Old sewing books or millinery books, the older the better
Unusual hat blocks
Vintage fashion magazines
interesting vintage manufacturers hangtags
Odd looking stuffed animals mostly from the 1950s and 60s
Vintage brooches
Jewelry with acorn motifs

Melody
 
For reselling I collect vintage deckchairs, windbreaks, picnic sets, bathing beauty ephemera, niknaks, and beachwear - I am constantly looking out for these ( obsessed!). For myself I really like old 1950s Devon pottery like Babbacombe pottery jugs with handpainted seagulls or blue plates with white dots. I do sell a few but my kitchen windowsill is full of them. I also like some of the Crown Devon Fieldings pottery designs and Beswick seagulls (to keep). I am also getting seriously keen on Horrockses dresses and am on the lookout for one to fit me (UK size 14 - if anyone has one for sale!). I think this is on the cusp of developing in to a new collecting addiction!!!
 
jeez where to begin?

vintage bags/purses
vintage silk scarves
costume jewellery
broken bling and beads
Portmerion Botanical garden range pottery
Mudmen figures for my Mum
Isle of wight glass
1930s green & blue vases deco styling
perfume bottles
Picture frames
art & arty postcards and greetings cards

all a bit weird this non?
 
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