I’ve been saying “peanut butter buckets” ever since I spotted these three vintage beauties. (Three! An instant collection!) Hubby, I think, prefers to say, “Pails of peanut butter.” What say you?
November 1st, 2011
Peanut Butter Buckets
September 12th, 2011
Hello There, Bear
I’m usually a sucker for these vintage stuffed toys with rubber heads, but this time I made eye contact, cooed, but only succumbed to taking a photo. Goodbye, bear.
September 7th, 2011
Home Is Where The Heart Rendering Is
A vintage home canning and label book from Worthington Rendering CO, Worthington, Minnesota, “Our gift to you in appreciation of your calls.”
What calls, you ask?
Calls to report or turn in what Worthington wants to render:
Wanted All Dead & Disabled Animals
Courteous Drivers
Large or Small — We Make the Call
Hey, they had clean and sanitary disinfected trucks. So don’t worry about it; go can some fruit. Just don’t tell Timmy & Betsy what really happened to Old Shep and that lame kitten… Just tell the kids the pets went to go live on a farm. Or another farm.
September 6th, 2011
Vintage Plastic Cowboy Pinball Machine
Hard to imagine that this plastic floor-standing pinball machine survived at all, let alone in working condition — but there it was, in an antique shop in Fergus Falls, MN. The price on the tag was $75; but it was half-off this holiday weekend (at least).
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August 30th, 2011
Fo Jetzel My Pretzel, Keebler Elves Can’t Keep All The Fun To Themselves
I spotted the Pretzel Jetzel, the “Jet-Age Pretzel Making Toy,” at Antiques On Second in Milwaukee.
This food making toy from Transogram combines the appeal of the Easy Bake Oven with some of the mold-making fun of Creepy Crawlers.
Additional images: Transogram ad from a comic book, via kenyatabks. Box and toy, via Time Warp Toys.
August 20th, 2011
Just Hatched
Vintage pottery planter of a freshly hatched duckling (or chick?), complete with eggshell hat, spotted at a thrift store today.
August 8th, 2011
Ronald McDonald Doll
Spotted at a thrift store today; I didn’t handle him, but I’m pretty sure he’s this one by Hasbro. Price on his shoe is $9.99.
August 6th, 2011
Kostelanetz’s Calendar Girl
Spotted in the thrift store today, Calendar Girl
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August 5th, 2011
No, It’s Not The Salt & Pepper Sisters
It’s the Philbin Sisters, circa 1926. But we’re certain these girls were real shakers.
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August 3rd, 2011
Happy Hippo; Sad Me
I love hippos. Perhaps a bit obsessively so. Which is why I am so sad to discover the old Fisher-Price Happy Hippo pull toy (circa 1962) so late in my life. Via. …Ah, well, that’s what collecting is for, right? Right.
