More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Miró

A late afternoon's unexpected visit to Otley, and the weird 20p shop, found me purchasing 'Botanical Shakespeare", by historian Gerit Quealy with illustrations by Sumi! Hasegawa-Collins. A compilation of the roughly 175 mentions of plants in Shakespeare’s plays. A gloriously illustrated read for someone who currently possesses only three pot plants but dreams of living alongside a wondrous country garden....:o

Which reminds me...where is our book collector friend these days...VfM4meplse????

DigForVictory

Curled up reading, possibly?
Or has found a rich seam of bookshelves and is rightly engrossed in calculating how many old & new friends she can fit in her bags & wallet?

I devoutly hope not laid up with anything which prevents reading!

Smoosh

I've been getting some great finds over the last few months but I've been putting off posting as I wanted to take photos, which I never got round to!

Today in the £1 shop I got:

A cropped burgundy hoody from H&M
A grey skirt from Topshop
A light pink light summer jacket from Quiz
A grey, coral and khaki t shirt from River Island

My best find lately was a French Connection dress, new with tags, reduced to £15 (from £30), originally priced at £110. I'm wearing it to a wedding in the summer

dolly84

miro - love the blouse, such a classy colour.


dfv - I live just outside Brighouse and would hazard a guess that the hospice shop in question was the Overgate. They charge the most ridiculous prices I have ever seen but oddly the furniture shop they have in Brighouse is very reasonably priced on most things.

DigForVictory

Hurrah for google maps - St Vincents, Wellington arcade. Enough baby clothing to dress an orphanage & yesterday the window to the right of the door looks like an assortment of peacocks are missing feather tips as the Denby in the window is stunning. Just severely priced. I'm all for "helping locally" but £90 is rather more help than I can afford. The Dig chaps wanted to get to the tobacconist & get home so I wasn't allowed a more extensive study (we had done nicely at Huddersfield after all, more might have been greedy) but I gather perhaps we should have made the time?!

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Brought home an armful of Denby (o what a shock) country cuisine from mind in Huddersfield but startled my family by walking away from Denby Bokhara from a hospice shop in Brighouse. That I could turn my back on Denby baroque was held as sensible - the shop wanted £90 for a 4 person set & that was dubbed “antique shop pricing”! [Fightin’ talk from the Dig chaps!]

We bought my sister a Denby Baroque dinner service for her wedding present plus lots of other Baroque stuff.
This was over 20 years ago so back in the days of the 'old' warehouse where you could find some real gems.

It was a very pretty pattern but didn't last very long at all, unlike my Greenwich which is still going strong.
I found the Baroque scratched/scuffed quite badly.
If I was paying £90 (which I would definitely not be doing) I'd inspect each item with a magnifying glass.

DigForVictory wrote: »

Himself found a Mennonite cookbook, and I have to say the recipe for fruitcake (dark) has my full attention... Must buy figs & inspect spice collection thoughtfully.

I have to confess that I read this as 'insect'.

Thrifty_Martha wrote: »

Found a lovely eastex navy jacket for £4 at CS. This brilliant find means I can send the more expensive jacket back to the catalogue company.
Martha x

:T

DigForVictory

You make the at that price easy decision seem wholly reasonable & when I next inventory the collection I will check it is well wrapped.

Fruitcake with insects?! That sounds like a meerkat special... Cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, plus pretty much every fruit you can candy (orange peel, lemon peel, cherries & pineapple) & whatever Mennonites mean by citron... Intriguingly the recipe is followed by a fruitcake (White) which involves all that fruit again (hurrah) plus several-chickens-worth of folded beaten egg white.

I may hand this over to produces shamefully good sponges son & challenge him to reach out to his inner Mennonite & see what happens. Along with a treasury note for ingredients.

Wednesday2000

Smoosh wrote: »

My best find lately was a French Connection dress, new with tags, reduced to £15 (from £30), originally priced at £110. I'm wearing it to a wedding in the summer

Amazing bargain!

C_J

Every time I see any Denby in a charity shop now, I think of you DFV. Yesterday it was two huge plastic crates filled with a full Greenwheat dinner service, signed (Andrew College??) on the base of each piece. There were coffee pots and serving dishes galore included - £20 for the lot. Should I have snapped it up, or is it not a worthy pattern?

Pollycat

C_J wrote: »

Every time I see any Denby in a charity shop now, I think of you DFV. Yesterday it was two huge plastic crates filled with a full Greenwheat dinner service, signed (Andrew College??) on the base of each piece. There were coffee pots and serving dishes galore included - £20 for the lot. Should I have snapped it up, or is it not a worthy pattern?

It's Albert College, not Andrew.
The pattern dates back to the mid 1950s.
It sounds a good buy but the centre of the plates are slightly rough (I'm sure there's a word for it) unlike the highly glazed plates of later designs. I've seen some plates in charity shops and they've been marked.

I have a Greenwheat small cream jug but the interior is coffee coloured instead of the green on the standard Greenwheat.
The wheat pattern is also in a different colourway with pink and brown wheat-tips and a different colour leaf.
That has the Albert College stamp.
Probably a one-off Friday afternoon design.