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…
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This vintage stucco monkey box, was rescued from the ‘outdated / discard pile’ mainly because of the patina of the galvanised tin and rusted fittings.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 Oil Pouring Can
One pint oil can with pouring spout and cork stopper in well used condition.
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…
Vintage Fun
Roller skates like these came out in the 1950’s and many kids having strapped them on spent hours of fun trying to go fast whilst being chased by the poor kids who couldn’t afford…
Vintage Frames
Old frames are usually discarded because of the picture but these vintage pine and silky oak frames are beautiful in their own right. You can recover them easily and maybe update them with a bit…
De Laval Lamp
Part of an old vintage cream separator upcycled to a one off custom lamp.
Gem muffin tray
This is a vintage cast iron gem muffin tray disposed of by someone who apparently doesn’t like muffins or wear earrings. Its a great little item to store any thing that is too fiddley to…
Pipe ‘n Gauge Lighting
It all started when I found a box full of old plumbing fittings at the local dump. Some were just strange in appearance, others vaguely recognisable, (I’m not a plumber) and I thought…
Remington Portable Typewriter
Circa 1930 Remington portable Typewriter in fabric covered wooden travel case. Still in working condition and hard to believe this typewriter is almost 80 years old. As is often the case this one was discarded…
Osborne’s home delivery.
This is one of those local soft drink companies that was really big in the 70s. They are still running today but not with this crate. This is what I love about recovery…