Larkin & Catcher

The thing about moving around a lot is that it’s easy to lose or misplace things. We never lose items which are actually in the store but sometimes things which were meant to go there get put aside until we have time to photograph and list them — then they ‘vanish’ for a little while and eventually turn up months or even a year later. It’s like finding an unexpected little gift.

We found a little box this week, with a bunch of little things inside:

 We think some of these will make it in the store

We like this red heart ring. There’s lots of little plastic rings in the shops just now but we think this is an especially nice one.

This black frog lighter is by Masai. It’s Japanese and we think from the 1950’s. It needs a bit of a clean and we haven’t tried to fill it with fuel yet, so we don’t nkow if it works. There’s a good weight to it — and we particularly like its little sparkly orange eyes.

This brooch looks like celluloid and we think it is is from the 1930’s.

We didn’t have enough time to photograph anything else — life is moving too fast just now.

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I love looking around online shops for unusual vintage gifts and I’ve just found something else that seems like a good gift idea for lovers of vintage Hollywood. How about a signed B&W photograph of James Stewart from the 1965 classic Flight of the Phoenix from Rutland Autographs. I love old movies, though not usually action ones — but I’d make an exception for ‘Phoenix’,  as Stewart is practically iconic and the film has all that ‘human spirit triumphing against adversity’ thing going on.

Now I’m thinking I’ll have to have a look around for something on James Dean, one of my all-time favourites (though not especially for his acting skills — he was just so damn beautiful).

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