More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Pollycat

bobsa1 wrote: »

I made my first Denby purchases and went a little mad. I know nothing about denby (can anyone recommend a website or book or anything) but I just loved the shapes and colours. I got 6 green lidded soup bowls, 3 plates, a couple of serving platters and a couple of other bits for £22 I don’t quite know what came over me as I’ve never been drawn to them before but I just had to have them. The lidded soup bowls were £2 each and plates and platters varied between £1 and £2.

I use the same book as DFV.
If you want to post photos I'm sure either or both of us can tell you the name of the range and date it.

DigForVictory

Pollycat, given the reference pieces I've acquired should you & I consider authoring a more current reference volume?!

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Pollycat, given the reference pieces I've acquired should you & I consider authoring a more current reference volume?!

Possible a good idea but I'm busy with my new career - selling on eBay (but I haven't got round to listing any Denby yet).
Getting quite a few offers and questions - one of which was how much to post a pair of boots I'm selling to an EU country. :huh:

DigForVictory

Fast or slow, insured/signed for or not & does the buyer work at a site that routinely handles one specific delivery company packages - as that could make everything simpler at their end.

Awed at ebay selling though - I begrudge their 10% then PayPal's slice & find that for the smaller stuff I'm barely making NMW. I'm an intermittent amateur though.

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Fast or slow, insured/signed for or not & does the buyer work at a site that routinely handles one specific delivery company packages - as that could make everything simpler at their end.

Didn't get that far.
I'm not getting into shipping outside the UK.

DigForVictory wrote: »

Awed at ebay selling though - I begrudge their 10% then PayPal's slice & find that for the smaller stuff I'm barely making NMW. I'm an intermittent amateur though.

The items I'm (currently) selling are either BNWT or very lightly worn, good brand footwear.
I just want to have a clear-out and if I can make a few bob instead of taking it to the charity shop, then I'm not that bothered about who's taking what out of my share.

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Get it (The Amazon price is stiff but once you have the ISBN try an interlibrary loan?), read it with DH, examine the stuff on basestamps carefully (point him at Just those pages once he's looked at the colour photos?) and urge him to help you Stick To The Book. New Years Resolution - nothing you can't find in the book.

And we know that backstamps weren't always used, don't we.
I have a Sandalwood pattern dish (very odd size - 4" x 6" x 2" deep) which is unglazed on the bottom and has no base stamp.
It looks a bit like the top to a butter dish but has no handle and the 'top' in that scenario is the bit that is unglazed (so clearly the base).

Of course, it was instantly recognised as Denby.
I use it to hold my pepper and salt grinders.

DigForVictory

So true, but it's a great way of discouraging someone who hasn't spent time hip deep in Denby from racing to buy something that when you turn it over, it declares itself a supermarket repro.

Wilko are currently doing a very good pseudo Imperial Blue in grey - and I smiled as son picked it out saying "it just feels right!". How it makes him feel is absolutely what matters, but if he'd wanted to pay Denby money for it, I'd have had to say something.

I love the Lovatts impressed marks for dating a piece. I can usually get it to a year if the mark is clear (and several possibles if not terribly clear), and I've used the marks to get past the lack of official basestamps. Leadless Glaze, anyone?!

Happy_One

Great buys in my local YMCA this morning. Large hard back cookery book,Arabesque, A taste of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon by Claudia Roden,filled with gorgeous pictures and mouth watering recipes, originally £25 and all mine for £1 Doesn’t even looked to have been opened.
Also got four Old Willow tea plates for £1 and a small serving dish red on the outside white inside for another £1
Came home on the bus a very happy bunny!

Pollycat

Happy_One wrote: »

Great buys in my local YMCA this morning. Large hard back cookery book,Arabesque, A taste of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon by Claudia Roden,filled with gorgeous pictures and mouth watering recipes, originally £25 and all mine for £1 Doesn’t even looked to have been opened.

I bet this was either bought as a gift or as a coffee table book.
It looks very nice.
And £30 on Amazon. :eek:
Having spent the last 2 hours photographing 'stuff'' and uploading to different folders (I'm anal) ready to list on ebay at the weekend, I remarked to my OH that I don't have time for buying and selling. :rotfl:

But....I did buy a lovely royal blue 'Alpaca Camargo' scarf from the hospice shop. Quite pricey at £4 but incredibly soft (as alpaca is).
Made in Peru and has the Alpaca Camargo logo on.

Will wash and put away for a friend's birthday.

And a small wheely case that is very light.
I've been looking for one that's small enough for one person for one night - I've got 3 things booked this year that I'm attending on my own :j - and all our holiday bags are too big and the rucksacks we use as hand luggage can be a bit cumbersome, especially as I'm planning on doing a bit of window-shopping before I check in and after I've checked out before I get the train home.
It's clean & tidy and the wheels are good.
It's the style that is also a holdall, so very squishy.

£3.00 hospice shop

And a John Grisham paperback for my holiday stash - The Rooster Bar.
Fairly new, published in the UK 2017.
Also from the hospice shop 75p

Miró

Pollycat wrote: »

But....I did buy a lovely royal blue 'Alpaca Camargo' scarf from the hospice shop. Quite pricey at £4 but incredibly soft (as alpaca is).
Made in Peru and has the Alpaca Camargo logo on.

Will wash and put away for a friend's birthday.

Pollycat I've bought two of these in the past from different charity shops, (one was £1.50 and the other £4 - both b/n), under the impression they were pure alpaca...ha!! They are only 27% alpaca and 73% acrylic so not quite the bargain I thought they were. Still nice and comfy to wear though.

http://www.andeanart.com/catalog/Alpaca+Scarves/Alpaca+Camargo+Scarf

Not found anything much in my charity shops lately - they all still seem to be selling off the party wear and 'ideal Christmas Gifts' that nobody wanted I did get a couple of remnants of good quality curtain lining fabric at 20p a pop to make more dustbags for my good handbags though.