Brabantia Beschuitbus

You need to be Dutch or to live in Holland to know what beschuit is. To store the traditional round dry bread slices we also have special metal boxes. You can find them as old as from like early 1900, but you can still buy them new. Vintage ones in good condition are ever so wanted. This one is from the Seventies and modern for its time, because it already had the lift to pull up the slices. Like in coffee pad boxes from these days.

I remember a student picking it up at my door as a present for his girlfriend, who as he told me loved and collected anything Seventies and especially in orange. Found March 2017, sold April €2,50. Not much but I was happy at the time.

Just The Right BoxThe long narrow box was the exact size that I needed!

So I had to ship the rainmaker. Wrapped it in double layer of a thin sort of foam that I still had, once curb found. Then went lookin for a box. Nothing that was large enough in my house! Started thinking about alternatives like just plastic, maybe trash bags but didn't like the idea. Then my eye caught someting in the corner of my living room. A still wrapped small Christmas tree, I had never even opened the box yet, that I found earlier this year. Pulled the tree out and it looked almost good as new. Stored unwrapped now to sell later or to keep to replace my large tree that I haven't used in years because I have no place to set it up anymore.

The long narrow box was the exact size that I needed!

Bamboo Rainmaker #2

Yay, my first sale in years. Shortly I shared the link to my revived sales account, today I received order and payment for this rainmaker. I had it for years. It doesn't look great, but the damage at the bottom is of no influence. It sounds great and all it really needs is a new coat of varnish. Addition to my bank account €10.

I had a smaller one that was way prettier that sold in 2016 €5.

Plush Cuddle Couch Cushion

I don't remember if I washed at least the cover of this large cushion. Something I'd normally do with found textiles but it would have destroyed the softness of the plush, unless you brush that but it may take away fibres. Probably it was just that clean. Listed March 2017, sold €5 just over after a week.

Artist's Box With Paint

I found the high quality oil paint inside the box, bust listed it seperately and sold it the same day March 21, 2017, €15,50. My birthday, nice present! A week later I sold the box, ore wooden case €7,50. 

Two Miffy Bags

These simple bags look inexpensive, maybe not even worth listing but as I explained before, Miffy is Nijntje in The Netherlands, so if they are marked Miffy they must have come from abroad. To my surprise I sold the set after a week €4.

Mystery Etnic Craft Or How I Came Back To My Blog

I used to blog in the hour between tv watching and going to bed. Photo's I took in the morning (best light in the yard) on free days, or even before work if I was allowed to start working from home. After losing that job in 2014 things didn't change much first, because I enjoyed unemployment money for long, but in 2017 I was forced to start an early morning part time job taking a lot of my energy. Then in 2018 started the evening work which suited me better but changed everything and therefore there was no news from me since then until a few months ago. Finally I managed to push myself into taking the laptop that I bought somewhere in between to tv watching on my few free evenings. Currently I have some extra free evenings. That helped to start to use the time to blog about all those things from the past never shown. Soon I will have more work again, but now that I have the habit back I'll keep on going.

Having an evening jobs means mornings free, but not blogging anymore killed my enthusiasm for taking pictures. And of course I didn't have time to curb shopping any more so not much new stuff coming in.

But so much past finds to still get rid of. And I still find cool stuff in front of the door. Currently I can't take in big stuff because I have no space to store it. Time to do something about it to make space! Back into blogging I managed to push myself to go for it. So I reopened my shop, well that is my Dutch Ebay account:

https://www.marktplaats.nl/u/le-chat/11282127/

The photo on top is a recent find that I donated to thrift shop. Ethnic decorative wooden item. I have no idea fom where of what possible meaning it may have.

Vintage Plant Stand Or Milking Stool

This small piece of furniture from in frront of my door is to low to make a sitting stool, but isn't sturdy enough to serve as a climbing stool, so I listed it as a 'milking stool', suitable to use as a plant stand. It could have been used as a work stool for like fixing bicycles or so. I thought 1960's or older. Pretty cute. Listed March 2017, went June €5 including wear of paint. Was picked up at the door by someone very happy with it.

Seventies Glass Vase

Totally loved this vase as we had more or less the same at home in my childhood. It's fairly cheap cast glass, made in... China, Taiwan or. The welt is clearly visible, but then it's very thick and heavy which makes it a quality product after all. I just had no use for it.

Found March 2017, sold September €3.

Fake Delft Blue Eggcups

I can't remember selling these. Not in computer admin. But not donated to thrift shop. So most likely market. Not genuine Delft Blue. No signature, but hand-painted and cute. Some people collect eggcups.

IKEA CD Racks

In 2013 I found these two, finally in my blog 2015, see bottom of post. Already out of production but still sought after. Sold then as I remember €4 each, but I have no computer admin from that long ago. 

I went looking back for them as I found these photo's from 2017. They are the half sized version, but somehow someone had stuck a repro of the late Dutch artist/musician Herman Brood on the back of one of them. Somewhat curious, but I was happy to get rid of them €2,5 for the set.

Update 2024-08-30:

Just found this photo.taken March 2017. The large model again. While shooting I noticed minimal damage and never tried to sell it. See left bottom there's a crack in the joint. I use it for the few cd's that I still want to keep. Untill.

Steinhauer Reading Lamp

An older model from the Steinhauer light range, but with LED lamp as far as I can judge. Working. Needed wall fixation so for a person who could get that done somehow. Value new over €70. Sold after four months €9, not much but I was happy at the time.