What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

elf06

Pollycat wrote: »

Just calculated (I'm full of cold and have been up for hours instead of laying in bed coughing ) that it's less than 50p per piece.


For the benefit of me and Dig for Victory (both Denby-philes), you have to say what pattern it is.
Great bargain. :T

I got a Denby set for free recently. It has 3 bowls, 3 side plates, 3 mugs and 4 dinner plates. I'm going to have to look online for the 'missing' pieces. Im still struggling to work out whether its black or brown though!

silvasava

I'm a Denby fan too - mines Imperial Blue - rarely see any though as you all know I did manage a huge haul a while ago so I'll not be greedy
Well done on the Botanic Garden too

Pollycat

silvasava wrote: »

I'm a Denby fan too - mines Imperial Blue - rarely see any though as you all know I did manage a huge haul a while ago so I'll not be greedy
Well done on the Botanic Garden too

Mine's Greenwich.
It's amazing that patterns/designs have come and gone but these 2 are still in production. I bought mine over 25 years ago.

I also have some 1960s vases & jugs (Glynbourne range) plus lots of other bits and pieces that I've picked up from charity shops and flea market.

Good luck on the charity shop hunt, Valli - I know you've lost some weight.

Miró

silvasava wrote: »

I'm a Denby fan too - mines Imperial Blue - rarely see any though as you all know I did manage a huge haul a while ago so I'll not be greedy
Well done on the Botanic Garden too

Another Denby fan too, mines 'Whisper', full set bought with a hefty staff discount when I worked for Browns of Chester about 30 years ago. Have replaced several pieces, some from an expensive china matching service, (when I didn't know any better!), and latterly from chazzas.

ukwmo.....how on earth did you carry all that...the blooming' stuff weighs a ton!! :eek:

DigForVictory

Mini_Bear wrote: »

they sort of act as a cow bell indicating he's awake!!

One Christmas my youngest puttered around with Essential Toy "decorated" with a collar of baubles & bells - it made locating where he was (whilst moving) very easy (& festive). The other two agreed to festive collars for toys but they just adorned the room, youngest hauled his beloved Everywhere. (We ended up buying a stunt double so the original beloved could be washed...)

A brown pattern of Denby? With a cream brushstroke design, faintly rose like? Might it be Bakewell? Cinnamon? Cotswold? Even Romany?

Husband, out on the prowl, recognised a pattern (all those years of training paying off) & he & each son lugged back a tenderly packed armful of Ode for me. I think we may have to use it this Christmas, I love it's old gold colour, but do I dare let them eat off those glorious plates? (Definite wedding set look to them - all whole & unscratched & Kept For Best & thus unused.) Whereas our Imperial blue is in daily abuse, but the really MS thing about Denby is that It Keeps Going. (I started with a department store opening & offering 20% off Everything & another 10% off if you used their storecard, so I went (bachelor girl) rogue & Loaded the hope chest. Then paid off the storecard & never went in again.)
Caveat - Denby & Stone floors. If you miss, washing up on stone flags, even Denby shatters. So I schemed to rescue half a dozen plates before gravity could bite & bounced from charity shop to charity shop in South Wales looking for 8 replacement plates all <fisherman gesture> size that matched - and they were all wonderful - especially the last place who happily sold me 10 large matching not-Denby plates, so I could return home cradling Denby & still have the cottageholder's blessing.) Good times. The lads did roll their eyes a bit - Even On Holiday I spotted & pounced... As addictions go though, it's mostly harmless.

Valli

Pollycat wrote: »

Good luck on the charity shop hunt, Valli - I know you've lost some weight.

Thanks - 3 stones so far. I'm not going into town today because it will be busy and full of tourists;)

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

A brown pattern of Denby? With a cream brushstroke design, faintly rose like? Might it be Bakewell? Cinnamon? Cotswold? Even Romany?

Husband, out on the prowl, recognised a pattern (all those years of training paying off) & he & each son lugged back a tenderly packed armful of Ode for me. I think we may have to use it this Christmas, I love it's old gold colour, but do I dare let them eat off those glorious plates? (Definite wedding set look to them - all whole & unscratched & Kept For Best & thus unused.) Whereas our Imperial blue is in daily abuse, but the really MS thing about Denby is that It Keeps Going. (I started with a department store opening & offering 20% off Everything & another 10% off if you used their storecard, so I went (bachelor girl) rogue & Loaded the hope chest. Then paid off the storecard & never went in again.)
Caveat - Denby & Stone floors. If you miss, washing up on stone flags, even Denby shatters. So I schemed to rescue half a dozen plates before gravity could bite & bounced from charity shop to charity shop in South Wales looking for 8 replacement plates all <fisherman gesture> size that matched - and they were all wonderful - especially the last place who happily sold me 10 large matching not-Denby plates, so I could return home cradling Denby & still have the cottageholder's blessing.) Good times. The lads did roll their eyes a bit - Even On Holiday I spotted & pounced... As addictions go though, it's mostly harmless.

I think Ode might scratch....

I'm lucky enough to live close enough to Denby Pottery to pop along to see what they've got in. although we don't bother so much nowadays.

Before they re-vamped the old warehouse and when they had a sale on, we used to go out armed with several wet tea-towels and sift through hundreds of items piled high, covered in dust (you could see the sky through the warehouse roof) and choose the best of the seconds which were very cheap.

I've got stuff that - according to the Denby Greenwich leaflet - were never in production, so samples that never made the cut.

Pollycat

Valli wrote: »

Thanks - 3 stones so far. I'm not going into town today because it will be busy and full of tourists;)

Eeeek! :eek:
Good plan.

Well done on the weight loss.

Chris25

I like Denby too but didn't used to. Don't know what I've got but it's a plain green.

I bought 8 cups & saucers several years ago from a neighbour who was having a sale of stuff to raise money for her son to go to Africa for a year. I didn't really want it, but then neither did anybody else so I bought it thinking I could give it to my cousin.

it sat in the cupboard for a few years and then one Christmas I was making mulled wine & thought the cups were perfect for that. An elderly friend came, saw the cups and mentioned she had a set.

A month or so later there was a knock at the door and it was my friend's daughter with a box. She told me that her mum had asked her children if any of them wanted her set (including teapot and coffee pot) and they all said no, so she thought as I loved it so much I should have it.

Trouble was, I didn't love it then but didn't like to say so, so every time she came round we used the Denby cups.

I then acquired a large casserole dish, minus the lid, from a friend who'd been clearing at a jumble sale, had seen the set at my house & thought "Hmm, I know who would like that" That is useful though as a plant pot.

Another friend bought me another sugar bowl - one of her charity shop finds.

So I find myself with quite a few pieces of it. It still gets most use at Christmas with the mulled wine though


***Valli, well done on your weight loss***

ukwmo

Heavens. Didn't realise there were so many Denby fans on here ! After a quick trip through google images, I can exclusively reveal that my charity shop purchase yesterday (full Denby set for 8) is ... Denby Sonnet. Difficult to describe the colours, I'm colourblind lol. Kind of light caramels brown centre with a grey/green/brown rim (???!!!).

And they did weigh a ton. The ladies in the shop had plenty of bags, they love their bags in there, cue League of Gentlemen sketch lol x