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…
Millinery block
Vintage millinery crown and brim block used to mould and shape a hat. It is a 21.5 inch crown and 43.5 inch brim. It is made of Australian hardwood and is in great condition….
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 School Case
This terrific child’s school case from the 1940’s measuring 40cm x 25cm x 10cm deep was part of a deceased estate and contained a few games, toys and pencils in a pencil case all from…
Homing Pigeon carry box.
Circa 1940 three compartment vintage carry box for homing pigeons. Just a fantastic piece with well worn wire cage imbedded into a pine painted frame. There is still a decent hint of the…
Monkey Box Table Lamp
This vintage stucco monkey box, was rescued from the ‘outdated / discard pile’ mainly because of the patina of the galvanised tin and rusted fittings. It has a utilitarian feel about it and…
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…
Industrial Display Unit.
This 60cm (24″) high x 30cm (12″) wide display is a repurposed metal filing drawer that had been discarded and left to rust in the weather – and what a great idea that was….
Hardwood Crate Display
This hardwood crate was recovered from the tip face where it had been dumped. These crates are usually manufactured from pine, so it is interesting that this one is hardwood. It has the faint…
Vintage Oil Pouring Can
One pint oil can with pouring spout and cork stopper in well used condition.
Vintage Wakefield Castrol Tin
1 gallon Castrol motor oil tin.
Vintage Wooden Trays
Two wooden trays circa 1930s made from Australian cedar and old clear pine. Both items have the 100 year patina look and are simply made for use as a utility item. The cedar…
Vintage Barrel
This barrel was used to send Sodium Phosphate from London to Brisbane around 1940. It was recently “cleaned out” of a shed where it had been for the last 60 odd years. The markings…
Crown No.12 Circular Mirror
A washing machine of sorts from the 1930’s, the ‘Crown Copper’ was in fact a pot on legs with an enamelled casing around it that you boiled clothes in, along with a little soap and kerosene…
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…
1952 Ammo Box
This ‘ammo’ box used to transport and store army issue ammunition is interesting in that it was issued to the UN peace keeping forces around 1952 some time after WW2 finished. It was in pretty…
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…