Well, “could” is relative. But I like to spend a little time every day scrounging through the market finds at One King’s Lane (also to find things for rich idiots), looking for gems, which I occasionally buy and then sit on and give away as presents. I mean, it’s online, which means that “scrounging” is “scrolling,” but sometimes you click and it’s already “in another member’s cart,” which adds the allure of the chase. Hm. Okay, anyway, I enjoyed these things today, some ironically and some non-ironically.
Remember, old decorative stuff is never the wrong size.
French 4th Prize Medal ($175)
This is literally the most appropriate thing you could buy to tell your French blacksmith he’s the fourth-best French blacksmith you’ve ever had.
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Marcel Boucher Duck Brooch ($199)
No, that’s really pretty, even though it mostly makes me think of foie gras, because huge distended liver part.
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The Girl Scouts of the Round Table ($25)
Everyone loves the Girl Scouts.
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Broad-Nosed Eel, 1878 ($99)
You can never have too many 19th century illustrations of eels to never get around to framing.
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Goblets, set of four ($99)
For all your Game of Thrones pre-orgy needs.
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Danish Modern Sauce Dishes, Pair ($45)
One for ketchup, one for mustard.
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Hammered Silver Napkin Rings, set of five ($49)
Because no one uses napkin rings, you can buy them from literally any decade of human history and they’ll be in great shape.
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Art Deco Cigarette Dispenser ($145)
Don’t smoke! But go look at it because there are all these little brass things your cigarettes can stick out of!
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Kodak Diomatic Folding Camera and Case ($149)
I don’t actually know what you would do with this, unless you or your partner is a photographer who is also into old-timey things,
Tags: antiques, design, old stuff, online window shopping
Many many years ago I bought a folding Land camera at a garage sale because it was beautiful in that mid-century modern kind of way. After a while it occurred to me to check the nascent World Wide Web to see if I could find film and instructions for its use. I did and I could and that’s how I fell in love with the internet.
But I kind of really do want that broad-nosed eel illustration framed and hung in my room.
UPDATE: There are many more ugly fish illustrations on that website, and I want them all.
That was was not ironic. GET ON MY WALL, WEIRD THINGS.
I’m seriously *this* close to buying it. I salvaged a bunch of weird shit from my workplace when we moved buildings, and it is all proudly displayed.
Nicole, did you buy the eel? Somebody bought the eel.
I DO need those goblets, for drinking wine out of while telling tweens inappropriate things.
Ugh, websites that don’t let you browse without signing up for their stupid ‘membership’. JUST LET ME LOOK AT YOUR UGLY FISH PICTURES.
The thing in the middle of the duck brooch looks like a decorative soap.
I was thinking Jordan almond, personally.
I was going to boggle at the fact that someone was supposed to take the time to insert a cigarette into each of those tubes but then I remembered: servants. Ah, servants. What CAN’T they do??
I would totally take the time to insert non-tobacco “cigarettes” into all the little tubes. I would probably smoke more just for the chance to fill it up again. I’m kind of a weirdo.
I guess I can see that as being a nice, fiddly time waster on a lazy afternoon. After all, everyone needs a hobby, even rich folk.
It wouldn’t take THAT long!
I suddenly want to have a Game of Thrones pre-orgy party, regardless of whether or not there is an orgy afterwards.
Solution: write that book (and then sell me a copy).
I’d buy the napkin rings if I could think of a new use for them, they’re awfully pretty.