Wall hooks and books and a shrine divine

Here are a few more listings for you :-)

This tiny little vintage French pocket shrine is such a darling little piece - SOLD

For the perfect afternoon tea table, a silver plate Art Deco cake server - SOLD

Fabulous vintage French silver plate Dachshund knife rests - SOLD

A cute little piece of vintage French barware, a horse head and lucky horseshoe silver plate bottle opener -

A set of 4 acanthus leaf gilt finish wall hooks, elegant Paris apartment chic - SOLD

Vintage French blue enamel candlestick - SOLD

Staying with blue, but this time not enamel but velvet, a 19th Century blue velvet benitier with a porcelain shell shaped font -

And last but most definitely not least, the most beautiful antique French religious book. It is stunning - SOLD

Today was spent with family, so I had no time to photograph anything. I'll list some more tomorrow :-)

Toodlepip xxx

More listings :-)

It isn't going quite as fast as I would like, it appears I have a fractured middle finger. OUCH. Its been hurting quite badly for a week now, so I finally let my family persuade me to go to the doctor. She sent me straight up to the hospital for an xray, and now I know why I was in pain, lol. Photographing, typing, packaging stuff, all not so easy right now. But I listed a few more things -

White onyx and gold figure of Christ vintage French cross - SOLD

19th Century silver metal jardiniere -

Set of three perfectly delicious chippy sea green French hat stands - SOLD

A sweet baptism/christening box from 1925, such a beautiful image -

Vintage French enamel allumettes box, beautiful turquoise colour and good condition - SOLD

and this elegant, richly coloured blue and gold Debray candy tin -

Toodlepip xxx

Just listed

I only managed to list three items today, too many other things to take care off, but they are lovely little treasures.

I listed two gorgeous French boxes from my collection. This first one is a handmade, OOAK antique fabric box - SOLD

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The second, vintage French, box is large and so pretty, rich red background with sweet little flowers and Spencerian swirls -

This Paris souvenir ashtray from the 1930s shows 5 Paris landmarks - SOLD

Thanks for stopping by, toodlepip xxx

Back in the UK with a car load of treasures

Six months in France ( with just one week in the UK for a number of appointments ) and my blogging has suffered severely. I have hardly been on the computer all that time. But, now I am back in the UK and I brought back a lot of my collected treasures which had been gracing the cottage for a while. I will be listing lots of them over the next 4 weeks until we go back to France again. Here are a few which have just gone into the shop -

Ornate antique French wall hook, gilt bronze grapevines - RESERVED

French Art Deco salad servers, boxed and in great condition -

Unusual vintage French Holy Water font in pewter - SOLD

I also dipped into my collection of antique and vintage tea strainers ( I do love a cup of tea ). 
This first one is quite a rare antique French swivel action tea strainer with drip tray - SOLD

Love the multi petal flower shape of this antique French tea strainer - SOLD

Vintage French (1930s) in-spout tea strainer - SOLD

This is a fabulous 19th Century folding pocket corkscrew made by a village blacksmith from heavy iron -

Aaah, this is the sweetest little antique French bronze 'vide poche' ( literally empty pocket ), a tiny tray to put loose coins, tickets etc onto when you get home -

Another rare piece, the only one of its kind I have ever found at the brocantes in all these years since we had the cottage, a vintage enamelware/graniteware lunch pail, which converts into a cooking pot. A 1940s camping gadget, I think :-) -

More to come tomorrow! Thanks for looking, toodlepip xxx

New listings

I have not listed much in the shop since we got to the cottage in March. Anything over 3cm thick has to be sent as a 1kg package from France, which is very expensive. Even if it only weighs 100gr, it would cost 23.70Euros! So, I am only listing tiny things from France, and the rest of the things from my collections I have sorted out for listing will have to wait until I get back to the UK :-(. I did list a handful of items when we were in the UK for a week for appointments a while back, and as always, my son will post them out for me. Some are already sold, but here are a few which are in the shop right now -

Another one of my fabric covered chocolate boxes, lovely oval shape and such a sweet country scene -

Victorian/Edwardian Salad Serving Set, boxed and in excellent condition -

Mid Century French cake server and forks set, excellent condition and so pretty with those faux MOP handles. Boxed set - SOLD

I have a large collection of antique and vintage French benitiers and these velvet ones are amongst my most treasured pieces. They are both huge, much bigger than the ones I usually come across.
This is the green velvet benitier - SOLD

And this is the most gorgeous and ornate deep red velvet benitier - SOLD

Staying with red, this is a vintage Scaferlati tin in unusually good condition - SOLD

Superb set of 12 silver plated WMF knife rests, boxed and in excellent condition SOLD -

Three antique French 19th Century spindles, beautifully tactile turned wood -
SOLD

Large olive stone rosary -

Vintage French rosary with milkglass beads in the most delightful shades of rose pink - SOLD

Vintage Fench religious plaque - SOLD

Got to have a bit of ephemera in the shop as well, lol, so here are three vintage French Paris-Medoc notebooklets - SOLD but 1 more set available

I keep having to add more sets of these vintage French turned wooden finials as well, they are proving so popular - lots of sets SOLD already, but more available

Large vintage French nuns' pectoral cross, silver metal and wood -

Superb quality antique French metal thread lace, made for priests' vestments, very suitable for period clothing projects. Rich yellow gold colour - ALL SOLD

19th Century Napoleon III pectoral nuns cross -

Thats it for now. Thanks for looking. Toodlepip xxx