Antiques and old stuff

Does anyone here like or collect antiques?
I lobe looking at them and have made a few purchases over the years.

I like a mixture of modern mixed with old.

I love glassware, vases or big bowls that catch the light in all colours. I love pottery like jugs and bowls and vases

Anyone else?

Me, I love mixing old with new, the stuff I have isn't expensive but I love to find something interesting, have stuff my Nan got for me, she used to haunt antique shops in Chelsea and flirt her was to a bargain lol

I don't collect them - I have too much stuff as it is. I do enjoy programmes about antiques though.

Me too, love the hunt! I don't spend vast amounts but I do like to look at it all.
I have my grandmothers old cookware and some lovely Murano glass ashtrays.

Also love big wooden sticks like willow and birch and have them around the house in big floor vases.
Dried flowers I love too - more than fresh ones actually.

Really daft, but what I treasure most in the whole world is my Nan's pastry cutter, which she gave to me and I still make pastry with it, so it's been going for over 100 years!




Mines got a green handle with the paint flaked off and one of the wires has broken, but I wouldn't swop it for the world.

I get it! I have a really old silver-coloured (not sterling but silver plate I think) old tea strainer and little thing it sits on in my kitchen for my tea, it's old and stained but I love it!
It sits next to my oil lamp - you know the ones with the bubbles? Very retro and old together.

I would,love to work in a big old junk shop!

My Aunt, grandmother's sister, lived in Southampton and her husband was Maitre de at a big hotel.  Over the years they collected amazing stuff, their house was like an antique shop.  They were going to retire and use it as stock to open a shop.  Unfortunately he died at 50, her oldest son, my cousin, killed himself while working on a remote island more or less by himself for a government departmentment, never did find out what it was, and her younger son Chris, who had polio as a child and was told he would never walk, not only walked but rode a motorbike.  Unfortunately riding over Southhampton bridge he swerved to avoid a dog, he loved animals, hit the side of the bridge and went over.  After he died, she didn't have the heart to open a shop.  But she used to make stuff to raise money for charity, jams, preserves etc and sell it in her garage.  At 90 she'd still pick apples and go blackberrying on her bike for it and actually died climbing on steps to reach jars to pot her jam.  Long winded, but I have her jam making pan and I would never part with it.   I have it filled with wooden and painted eggs, shells, glass balls etc and put fairy lights round it!

Wow. I wish I had a story like that behind my stuff! I mean my grandparents were very interesting etc but I never got any stories behind their bits and pieces.
I regret not asking.

I do have a heavy wooden, beautifully carved statue they got when they lived in Indonesia - carved from one piece of wood.
She is a lady and if she "smiles" it's going to be sunny and raining, she appears to be frowning. I loved her as a kid and my grandfather said she was mine.
probably my favourite piece.

Sounds lovely.  Will inherit my dad's camphorwood chest, beatifully carved and the Indonesian busts which I love. 

It's like this:

That's gorgeous!
I'll have it when you're finished with it

Meant to say, have seen Indonesian busts, but never one that smiles when it is sunny!  Obviously the way it is carved but I'm totally intrigued, any chance of a picture of it?

eddie wrote:That's gorgeous!
I'll have it when you're finished with it

Lol, it's flippin heavy!

Looks like a flippin lot of dusting to me

This isn't wher I normally have her, she's normally kept on the top of a bookcase by the patio doors where she catches the natural light, but you get the gist.
Smiling  or frowning?

Half smiling, a bit of sun?  And I love her, she is utterly lovely, I bet you want to stroke the wood as you walk past.

They were a pair, slightly different, but one broke years ago and couldn't be fixed due to the weight of it on the top half.

I do love her absolutely! I always did as a kid.

I have a Buddha-type (sort of deity-like?) one too, from my grandparents, I'd take a pic but that's in my bedroom and I cannot be arsed to walk two flights of stairs

Don't blame you.  Dad has a Buddha as well and we always used to rub it's belly for good luck!

Bit like this one

Nice!
Actually mine isn't a Buddha - not sure what it is?
Going to google and see if I can find out

Okay not sure what it is - seen a few things it might be, like a take on Ganesh?

Anyway, this is in my bedroom on my dresser

Is it a fertility god/ess?  Seems your bedroom is the right place for it lol  I really like it, it kinda evolves out of the base.

I think it may be Brahma
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brahma.html
because of the 4 arms and a lotus scepter
it is looks a bit different than the typical Indian version which has 4 faces, but the elongated lobes are more typical of east Asia.
Do you know where it is from? Thailand?

it was the shrine that was the scene of the recent Bangkok bombing

Are there any Australian Antiques? NO, except for one who calls himself Veya, and he's only antique in his thinking!

nicko wrote:Are there any Australian Antiques?   NO,  except for one who calls himself Veya, and he's only antique in his thinking!

That, by logical extension, means that British babies are born old.

A smooth and wiley nicko contemplates his next answer:

Quill, shut your mouth and give your arse a chance, [old English saying]

dont be surprised nicko

the yanks dont have much by the way of history either, thats why they are so exciteable when they find something 300 years old......

veya_victaous wrote:I think it may be Brahma
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brahma.html
because of the 4 arms and a lotus scepter
it is looks a bit different than the typical Indian version which has 4 faces, but the elongated lobes are more typical of east Asia.
Do you know where it is from? Thailand?

it was the shrine that was the scene of the recent Bangkok bombing

My friend is a Hindu lol only just thought to ask her
I'm pretty sure it's from Indonesia as most of my grandparents' carving were from there.
I have two bookends too, one of a pelican and one of a monkey.

eddie wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:I think it may be Brahma
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brahma.html
because of the 4 arms and a lotus scepter
it is looks a bit different than the typical Indian version which has 4 faces, but the elongated lobes are more typical of east Asia.
Do you know where it is from? Thailand?

it was the shrine that was the scene of the recent Bangkok bombing

My friend is a Hindu lol only just thought to ask her
I'm pretty sure it's from Indonesia as most of my grandparents' carving were from there.
I have two bookends too, one of a pelican and one of a monkey.

Been trying to look at Indonesian carvings on line as it has intrigued me, but can't find anything like it.

nicko wrote:Are there any Australian Antiques?   NO,  except for one who calls himself Veya, and he's only antique in his thinking!

You don't know about aboriginal art then?

I know what Nicko means

those aboriginal artefacts are no more "australian" than the amerindian artefacts are "american"

victorismyhero wrote:I know what Nicko means

those aboriginal artefacts are no more "australian" than the amerindian artefacts are "american"

Well, apart from the aboriginals, Britain started colonising it nearly 250 yrs ago, so I bet there is stuff they have accumulated over than time.

yeah like the americas......they havnt got any amount of "history " either...250 years is nothing...

strewth neither the yanks NOR the aussies have even developed a proper culture yet....

Yea ok Victor lol

I can't find anything either sassy.
I'll ask my friend when I next see her.

Would be nice to find out.   Probably turn out to be a villager's interpretation of his mother in law lol

Or my Grandfather's view of my grandmother.

eddie wrote:Or my Grandfather's view of my grandmother.

LOL!!!!

veya_victaous wrote:I think it may be Brahma
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brahma.html
because of the 4 arms and a lotus scepter
it is looks a bit different than the typical Indian version which has 4 faces, but the elongated lobes are more typical of east Asia.
Do you know where it is from? Thailand?

it was the shrine that was the scene of the recent Bangkok bombing

Think ? i am certain its Phra Phrom/Brahma/4 faced budda the clues are all in the picture plus if you save the image its called Thailand-shrine-damage so that`s a big clue :-)

korban dallas wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:I think it may be Brahma
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brahma.html
because of the 4 arms and a lotus scepter
it is looks a bit different than the typical Indian version which has 4 faces, but the elongated lobes are more typical of east Asia.
Do you know where it is from? Thailand?

it was the shrine that was the scene of the recent Bangkok bombing

Think ? i am certain its Phra Phrom/Brahma/4 faced budda the clues are all in the picture plus if you save the image its called Thailand-shrine-damage so that`s a big clue :-)

Hi KD, he's comparing it to Eddie's one and saying Eddie's might be Brahma:

korban dallas wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:I think it may be Brahma
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brahma.html
because of the 4 arms and a lotus scepter
it is looks a bit different than the typical Indian version which has 4 faces, but the elongated lobes are more typical of east Asia.
Do you know where it is from? Thailand?

it was the shrine that was the scene of the recent Bangkok bombing

Think ? i am certain its Phra Phrom/Brahma/4 faced budda the clues are all in the picture plus if you save the image its called Thailand-shrine-damage so that`s a big clue :-)

yeah talking about eddies not the pic, the pic was an example in case she was unsure who Brahma was.

victorismyhero wrote:yeah like the americas......they havnt got any amount of "history " either...250 years is nothing...

strewth neither the yanks NOR the aussies have even developed a proper culture yet....

28,000 years old


you druids could only Occupy and existing Stonehenge
and even that
"ohh look at me but one rock on top of 2 others" in the same year as Egypt was building the pyramids and the above rock gallery was already 20,000 years old

Beside the aboriginal were not innately evil like Anglo and Saxon therefore their art is living, transient in time and space not a testament to the Greed hate and selfishness that the Englishman prides himself on.



We do have culture of "making Englishmen cry" ... apparently I'm very good at it

You make me cry with your spider posts

Why would you even do that!!???

eddie wrote:Why would you even do that!!???

It was Nems honest, I told her it was a mean thing to do

eddie wrote:

Naughty Nems

I did nuffink!

Nems wrote:I did nuffink!

Whistleblower!