Harlequin melamine cups, saucers and sideplates.

We buy quite a lot of bits and pieces for our imaginary VW camper van!

These were a nice find and looked very attractive on one of our shelves, but we buy so many bits and bobs, we run out of storage space for the new stuff. The time eventually comes for passing these onto someone who can actually use them in a VW camper.

Vintage Old Hall English stainless steel Toast Rack & glass butter & jam dishes

It holds four slices and there are two decorative frosted-glass dishes for your butter and preserves. The handle is just off-parallel, not major but only polite to point it out. There is a chip to an inner edge of one of the dishes, which isn't too noticeable due to the frosted glass, there are little pinpicks and small bubbles here and there in the glass.  The base of the rack is approx 24 cm (9.5 inches) by 12.5 cm (5 inches). Height is approx 10 cm (4 inches) to top of the handle. Underneath, maker's mark states "18 / 8 Stainless Steel, Old Hall, England". Underneath is showing signs of age and there seems to be a little tarnishing or staining around the maker's mark where a price label was removed - this is tiny and looks worse in the photo than it is. Overall, with stated is in VERY GOOD condition. Please ask any questions you might have. 

We dont have this listed on Etsy yet, but if you want it, convo or tweet @collectini and we'll list it. If you are known to us we'll arrange meet and collect.

Retro Radio Biscuit Tin

Retro vintage style radio biscuit tin lunch box with handle. Carry stuff, store stuff or just display with style!

This is a really fab looking item which is both ornamental and functional.
You can display it in practically any room in the house. And what about it's uses? Well it is a biscuit tin, or you can use it as a lunch box, and I have even seen these being used for storing make up or carrying your bits and pieces around town. It also makes for great general storage around the home. The handle pushes down against the body. Body of box measures approx 10 by 7 by 4 inches (approx 25 by 17.5 by 10 cm).

Tweet @collectini if you are interested in this. If you are known to us we'll arrange meet and collect.

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Shabby four tier iron rack

Nice, versatile piece: vegetable rack; pot rack or planter. You decide :)

Coffee Time! Vintage Keele Street coffee set in original box

What makes the thrill of finding an attractive set or piece of vintage homeware, even more satisfying, is finding it still has its original box. Look at this lovely set of six coffee cups and saucers.


The cups are most attractive with their rose-floral pattern, but for me what sets the set off nicely is the shade of yellow in those saucers. It is an unusual combination with the roses, but it is a very utilitarian colour, I feel, which is evocative of the age - 1950s if we use the cups as a guide, but probably 1960s, judging by the box.

And the box! What a design. It could have fallen in from the 1950s, but is is that typeface, which is a little less fussy than what went before, that tells me a more modern 'mode' of thought went into the design.


The whole package to me straddles the two decades, but that's OK - we live in a mix and match 21st century, where we can grab and pick 'n' mix just what we want to be surrounded with, rather than have the completeness of a trend dictate to us.


The only thing that matters is, is that you like them.

Cowes "Start of the Race" by JC Sibley vintage thread art ~ mid century kitsch

Thread and material sown onto a cloth background and mounted on two boards. It is called: Cowes "Start of the Race" and is by JC Sibley. I am guessing this was done sometime within the 1950s to 1970s. It measures approx 17 inches by 21 inches (approx 35.5cm by 53cm). Depicts the start of a race during Cowes Week. I don't know anything about the artist, so would welcome any info. This will appeal on many levels. If you are kitting-out your home out in a mid 20th century kitsch style it will look great, or you may know a sailing enthusiast who would appreciate this. 

We dont have this listed on Etsy yet, but if you want it, convo or tweet @collectini and we'll list it. If you are known to us we'll arrange meet and collect.

Please see the images below and ask any questions you might have. Thank you.

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How about a nice pair of orange floral 1970s sun loungers

You know when you forget you have something... then remember

Maybe it was something to do with it being such a sunny day, though you wouldn't think so from the picture.

We'd love to keep these, but we just don't have the room.

These are local pick up in Southampton.