More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

DigForVictory

Skipton, for a change, & a hospice shop had 50% off everything so I bought the manor green teacups & saucer they had (at an appalling not-discounted price). Another in Colne had Gypsy teapot cups & saucers for a fiver (count the teapot lid, that's 50 pence a piece).

I saw couple of long, lined bridesmaids dresses in a gold fabric, but thought there wasn't enough fabric to make curtains. Which is an odd way to look at pretty dresses, but since I don't tend to wear them, I look at other things to do with the fabric. (Dustbags, not so much, but I should consider the idea!).

dolly84

My no buy has been broken. I was in a charity shop looking for a couple of non clothing items that I am after and spotted a lovely mohair blend jumper in speckled red with beautiful long sleeves and a high neck with buttons which go diagonally into the armpit on one side, it's just a George one but fits so well and oh those lovely sleeves, couldn't resist at just £2.50.

VfM4meplse

Today's finds: a BNWT Christmas wreath for the front door - wood / pine cone / oak leaf / gold effect for £2 that I shall put away for December, and 4 books for £1 including a translation of Suetonius' "De Vita Ceasarum" - not everyone's thing, I grant you! - but took me back 30 years to my schooldays.

Pollycat wrote: »

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

This is a great plan. I was given a lovely warm Hotter scarf / shawl for my birthday (in August) and my how I am glad of it in the winter!

Pollycat

Well, yesterday I trawled 6 shops in one town, 6 shops in another, then 12 in the city - and bought nothing.

The last (tiny, independent ) shop on my 'route' before meeting OH int'pub yielded some goodies.

An Edina Ronay casual coat in khaki, shiny parachute-silky fabric, part quilted with lots of zips and pockets. Had been £10 originally, then reduced to £5 (I saw it at £10) and yesterday everything was half-price so I paid £2.50. :j

A BNWT M&S Stormwear quilted jacked. Original price £55, reduced in M&S to £36.
Shop price had been £8 and I paid £4.
I didn't try it on in the shop and it may be too small but if it is I'll put it on ebay today and donate half the profit back to the shop. I hope it will be more than the £8 they originally priced it at.

And finally, this lovely little bag was still on the shelf so it's mine for £2.50. :j

Pollycat wrote: »

I did see a lovely small silk bag with embroidery and beads on it in a charity shop on Saturday.
It was BNWT (think it said 'Claridges') and I toyed with the idea of buying it to put her birthday present in but then decided against it.
It was £5.00 so a bit pricey.

The label actually says 'Claridge and Co London' and 'our products are designed to illustrate the supreme skill of their makers. We use traditional crafts and, where practical, natural fabrics. No two pieces are identical. We hope you'll love and enjoy them'.

So, not quite furoshiki but much prettier than a gift bag from the Card Factory.

C_J

DFV - I thought if you yesterday, when I was fighting my way through the mobbed Nettlebed sale. On the china stall they had a box of oddments of Denby Greenwheat signed A Colledge - a couple of plates, a cruet set on a half moon green dish, a lidded vegetable serving dish, a coffee pot and a sugar bowl (both with lids) and four soup bowls with handles, lids and saucers. They were asking £10 for the lot but I have no idea if that was good value, or whether Greenwheat is a desirable pattern.

I think I would be nervous of buying chinaware to re-sell on wBay, as even with the most careful bubble wrapping and packaging, I’d worry the items might still end up being damaged in transit.

DigForVictory

You amazing pair!

VfM4meplse wrote: »

a translation of Suetonius' "De Vita Ceasarum" - not everyone's thing, I grant you! - but took me back 30 years to my schooldays.

Pollycat wrote: »

And finally, this lovely little bag was still on the shelf so it's mine for £2.50.
The label actually says 'Claridge and Co London' and 'our products are designed to illustrate the supreme skill of their makers. We use traditional crafts and, where practical, natural fabrics. No two pieces are identical. We hope you'll love and enjoy them'.

So, not quite furoshiki but much prettier than a gift bag from the Card Factory.

Awed. Not only do you find glorious things, you remind me why I keep looking!
(Have to say yesterday I did nicely thankyou ending up lugging china but Himself found nothing other than a bad mood.) Still, another day...

C J I am a weak & feeble Denbyholic, I'd have bought the lot. (Getting it home whole would be a good start.)
Then asked the family to get me an industrial roll of bubblewrap (the sort that packaging companies sell, that you have to keep out of reach of small children who are shorter & thinner but yearn to ride, hug, attack the bubblewrap) and an assortment of shipping boxes & broad brown tape then set to with lights and reference books & camera, ruthlessly reading up on where something like has sold on ebay for how much. All vastly effortfull & frustrating but you load the dice towards getting each piece anywhere whole, then weigh it, calculate the postage (Even International if you are an utter glutton for punishment) then list it.

Pollycat

C_J wrote: »

I think I would be nervous of buying chinaware to re-sell on wBay, as even with the most careful bubble wrapping and packaging, I’d worry the items might still end up being damaged in transit.

DigForVictory wrote: »

Then asked the family to get me an industrial roll of bubblewrap (the sort that packaging companies sell, that you have to keep out of reach of small children who are shorter & thinner but yearn to ride, hug, attack the bubblewrap) and an assortment of shipping boxes & broad brown tape then set to with lights and reference books & camera, ruthlessly reading up on where something like has sold on ebay for how much. All vastly effortfull & frustrating but you load the dice towards getting each piece anywhere whole, then weigh it, calculate the postage (Even International if you are an utter glutton for punishment) then list it.

As DFV & I know - Denby is much more robust than china.

I've bought (in the past) several large Glynbourne vases/jugs/planters - not everyone's cup of tea, I know - from Ebay and they've arrived intact.




As they are hand thrown and hand decorated (date back to 1960s), each piece is different.
I have 3 of these.
In fact, I have the whole Glynbourne range and most of them more than one piece.
For anyone who has the Denby book, see page 125 for the full range.
These jugs retailed at 52 shilling and sixpence. :eek:

DFV - what do you think of Cobridge Stoneware? A very short lived company that was (IIRC) a spin off from Moorcraft.

DigForVictory

Pollycat, I have to say I’ve never heard of Cobridge Stoneware, & a quick google suggests their pieces are more Art than I lurch for. My family are amazingly tolerant of jugs and mugs and teapots but if I were to start hoarding stunning vases, really exotic flower arranging for the use of, I think there would be more regrettable accidents.

Yet they are understanding of my hunting the metal combs mum uses for flower arranging. Lovely to see her so happy & the garden tolerates flower arranging starting with secateurs...

VfM4meplse

C_J wrote: »

I think I would be nervous of buying chinaware to re-sell on wBay, as even with the most careful bubble wrapping and packaging, I’d worry the items might still end up being damaged in transit.

This is why Gumtree is your friend! I have found many household items I wanted - including a BN silk Persian rug - at a fraction of the retail price but the three traits I have used are patience, persistence, and a willingness to travel to collect the item I have my eye on. I'm now in a corner of South Essex, but have travelled as far as Bedfordshire (which turned out to be an easy drive on a sunny Sunday morning), West London, Watford, Kent and Southampton for stuff. Admittedly I planned the Southampton collection to coincide with a cruise terminal drop-off, but the owner was happy to hold onto the item for me for a few weeks (the postage would have been a killer given that it was a cast iron item).

The other advantage of a Gumtree is no commission is taken from the sale, and you get to view the product properly before you hand over the readies.

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Pollycat, I have to say I’ve never heard of Cobridge Stoneware, & a quick google suggests their pieces are more Art than I lurch for. My family are amazingly tolerant of jugs and mugs and teapots but if I were to start hoarding stunning vases, really exotic flower arranging for the use of, I think there would be more regrettable accidents.

We stumbled upon the factory and attached shop by accident years ago.
I have ocean traveller vases and avian traveller vases plus a signed limited edition print of the original artwork for avian traveller (which is in my dining room and I look at it every day & smile).
Plus some items from the 'rummage box' which are one-offs, including a test glaze on a special design vase.

Sorry to take this thread so far off-topic.