More MidCentury Madness

What is the correct spelling of mid century anyway? Hyphenated? One word? Does it deserve capitalisation? Meh, I'm not sure these days.

So, to the point - more midcentury goodies to show. Your comments and opinions please :) 

Fab little barkcloth lamp, which works and has quite atomically shaped legs.




Don't mind the lovely concrete background, will you? 

It's the OOh-I'll-just-quickly-take a-few-photos-for-the-blog-while I'm-in-the-middle-of- looking-for-something- else-and-oh-bugger-VB- is-just-about-to wake-up background.






I love these clocks!

 

Fantastic shape to the legs. If anyone knows more about these please tell. This one is made in Japan, as were others that I've sold, and they're hard plastic and wind-up. I wonder if similar were made elsewhere?

It may well be Vintage Christine's fault I bought these. In a nice way, you understand. She just shows us the most fab kitschy stuff. So when I saw these not long after I found Christine's blog, I couldn't resist buying them. Not with those stunning rhinestone collars!

At first I couldn't work out why one was so much heavier than the other. Turns out that one has lost its stopper from the base and had been filled with sand then taped and painted over. The lady I bought them from said she 'used one as a doorstop'. 

This plantstand is probably not exciting to most of you, but this 50s white wire stuff is really a thing for me. I've collected quite a few pieces of it, and will continue to do so.


This one is quite rusty and I can't use or sell it at the moment, so it's on the 'to do way in the future' list.

This is rather older than mid-century, of course, but I'm sneaking it in because it's so pretty.

 

A Victorian mother of pearl salt cellar, complete with dinky little matching spoon and knife. Condition-perfect! Craftspersonship-amazing!