New Vintage items at my Etsy shop

Today I added seven (7) vintage items to my Etsy shop. Four of them are shown here. One is a copper crumb sweeper according to the appraisers at Birks. We have always called it a crumb tray. A seond is a sugar sifter while a third is a commemorative truella (trowel) used to lay the cornerstone of a new vestry of the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Burslem in 1901. The last shows the serving knife and fork to a similarly aged set of fish knives and forks. Six more fish knives and forks complete the set.

Check out my etsy shop by clicking on one of the images at the side of this post from JohnToftBasketry.

You might enjoy the vintage Mad Bomber Hat too!

Sales of Vintage Flatware

Earlier this afternoon, I posted five vintage items of flatware on my etsy shop site. These were heirlooms from Anne's family, and each probably dated from the 1930s or earlier.

Each item takes from 15 minutes to a half hour to post. When I finished, I checked my etsy site to see how each looked. I was dismayed to see that only two of the five items were on display. I could not imagine what had happened. Had I broken one of etsy's rules?

I checked my emails, and found that three of the items were sold! These were now in the sold item section of my shop. Wow! Eight of my ten sales have been vintage items. If only my baskets sold as quickly!!!!!