Electric lady assemblage
A collection of found items combining a broken doll, a power pole insulator post, and vintage mounting plate.
Scissors
A collection of scissors that have been used mainly for dressmaking for the last 80 years.
Restoring Vintage Wrenches
Found in an old shed, these vintage tools were cleaned up and are ready to go. From left to right. 7 inch King Dick adjustable wrench from England. 7 inch PS&W Co. adjustable…
Industrial lighting
Vintage brass bucket siphon pumps which were common farm equipment in the 1940’s and 50’s have be upcycled into elegant table lamps utilising the foot stands and extension spray rods from the pumps along with the…
1950 Tecnico Radio
This brown bakelite art deco style radio was made in Australia in the 1950’s and is a beautiful example of a mantel radio from its time. The radio is in working condition and…
Vintage door knobs
These vintage Australian door knobs are a regular find in sheds, recycle centres, demolition yards and second hand supply yards. They can be tin brass plain ornate in pristine condition and quite beat…
Vintage 1952 Elna 1 Grasshopper
Made January of 1952 this Swiss made Elna 1 was the first of its kind with production starting in 1940 and going through to mid 1952 when they brought out the next model…
100 year + Butter Churn
This butter churn was purchased cheaply because it didn’t work. Not that there is a big call for churning butter at home these days. It came fixed to an old board and was badly rusting…
Vintage Sports Field Line Marker.
This is a “Newmark” sports field line marker and would have been used in the 1960s to lay out the boundaries of a football field or tennis court. It originally had a push…
Vintage Scale. – S.A. Scale Company
This refurbished scale now utilised as a fruit plate was discovered in a shed and had been colonised by mud wasps. Looking good now this vintage scale needed quite a bit of help to come…
Anti-Shok Vintage Table Lamp
This 20cm high electrical transformer box stood out in the discard pile at the local dump because of its retro name plate and its distressed and faded industrial paint finish. Long past its use-by…
Industrial Metal Box.
Vintage heavy duty industrial metal box with a paint finish that could not be faked. It has taken years of neglect to get this sort of authentic look and what a fine job someone has done. There…
Vintage Olympia Portable Typewriter
1977 Olympia Traveller mechanical portable typewriter. Great little unit in good condition Serial number 15-3535175. This one is white with black trim complete with case. Fully mechanical, no power needed, just take the case…
Vintage smokers stand lamp
Smokers stands were a convenient way of having an ash tray at elbow height while you listened to a radio and shortened your life smoking cigarette after cigarette. Not in great demand these days this…
Vintage Trunk Coffee Table
This trunk was found at a garage sale and the outside was completely covered in rust. It had been in the family for years and in the shed for as long as they…
Plumbers wooden turnpins
These old wooden cones were acquired simply because they are beautiful objects and a curiousness about what they could have been used for. The smallest is 7cm (2.75 inches) tall and the largest…
1950 Modernist Lamp
This 1950 Watvic industrial modernist table lamp has beautiful lines and is made from steel with an anodised metal shade and bakerlite fittings to adjust the angle and tilt.
Vintage Justrite 5 gallon tin.
Justrite vintage red 5 gallon petrol tin marked with ‘Underwriters Laboratories’ safety sticker in good condition. Great look.
Vintage Hookey game board
The game of Hookey is played by pitching six rubber rings so as to hook onto the pins laid out around the board and scored by subtracting your total from 401. Popular in the…
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