Sunday, 19 May 2013

Vintage travel sets

Ok so you have a wife/partner that likes to travel and your's like mine may spring things on you as a surprise and very last minute!
I am not talking about anything excessive you understand just weekends away usually in country hotels but still you'll need to get your gear together and get going!

So I've learnt over the last few years to have stuff ready to go almost at a minutes notice, you'll probably remember clothes and shoes etc but it's dead easy to forget the little things you often need, things like nail clippers, razor etc so I decided to get a overnight travel set and well one leads to two to three, if you're a collector you'll know how it goes!

                                Here's a few of mine,
 
This one is probably from the late 1960's and the case is made of faux leather but the contents were the same as in previous incarnations, this one was unused and still had all of it's original contents...I added a small sewing kit (not shown) and never forget this one, it's proved more than useful. 


 
This high quality W.A Goold set was a recent find and again was made in various guises over the years, this is a later version but it still has metal tops to the containers, these can also be found with a full leather case and various contents....this one was found on a car boot unused, it even had it's razor blades still in their paper packets. 



 
 
This was found recently and it is a high quality item from R Horn of Vienna with full leather case and quality items within, the scissors are made by Wilkinson Sword, the cuticle tools and nail file are made in Solingen by Pfeilring , it's missing some items but finding them will give me something to do! 
There was a mark on the front but I've now managed to polish it away so you can hardly notice it.
 

 
 
Pfeilring nail file.
 
 
 
Wilkinson Sword nail scissors.
 

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

'Vintage' ties.....again

I know a lot of people collect ties around the world, over here in the UK ties are and have been generally a bit more conservative than those found say in the USA, and hand painted silks are pretty rare in fact I've never seen one for sale other than on internet auction sites.
Here's a few more of my recent and regular-ish finds mainly from charity shops.


A Lochinvar woolen tie

Not vintage per se but a 1980's 'vintage' in style cream and two tone blue raw silk tie made in the  
UK for 'NEXT' 


A 'Country Life' woolen tie made in scotland in three shades of brown. 




A 'Terylene' straight knitted tie from the 1960's made for Harry Fenton of Shaftesbury Avenue SW3, one of the original 'Mod' outfitters.  


Polo Prince by 'Favourite' another woolen tie 



Three found in the same day, one 'Neatwear' terylene, one 'Tooke' made from imported fabric(Rayon?) and one 'Christian Dior' paisley silk, the red Tooke is probably one of the oldest ties I own.



A Saxony pure wool 'tassle' tie. 

Three more a blue 'terylene' a woolen 'tartan' and a silk? St Michael steel blue grey one