Still catching up on blogging my BH doings.
Saturday morning was spent at the antique fair in Wadebridge.
My first one down here.
Only a few finds …..
… but met some lovely people.
A collector of sewing memorabilia …..
….. with the most exquisite items …
… to coo over.
The teeniest, tiniest scissors with a pen knife attached …
… just an inch long …
… perhaps once attached to a long chain ...
... round a slender neck …
… handy to snip her silk thread.
Tiny carved pig trotters .....
...... used to keep the wool tidy when knitting
socks …
… on four needles.
An enamelled shoe with concealed pen knife …
….. also only an inch long.
Super, duper sweet.
Delicately engraved mother of pearl tape measures.
So very elegant.
The Victorians certainly knew how to do exquisite.
My purchases ...
... buttons ...
... of course ...
… one can never have too many …
… a silhouette picture so intricately cut out …
….. with the sweetest of messages on the back.
Odd bits for my collages …
... and ephemera ...
… vintage French maps, rent books from Bilston (11s 9p a weekrent in 1929) ..
... and promotion pics for radio stars .....
..... before the days of TV.
A Scottie doggie brooch ...
... with a loving gaze ...
... but perhaps my favourite of all …
… is a brooch of a seagull wearing lipstick.
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