Tuesday 10 July 2012

YESTERDAY


I did my best to record, for blog posterity, Monday's IACF outdoor antiques fair at Swinderby airfield but the resulting photographs are hardly exciting...


...in fact the weather gave it such a gloomy, doomy atmosphere that I felt sure I was stuck in Sunday night's episode of Wallander!
                           

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Buying and selling were brisk despite the weather and we managed to find some treasures.
                      First a Victorian Suffolk Puff patchwork cot cover


A beautiful 19th century black velvet bag embroidered with brightly coloured beadwork designs, Native American in origin and showing the influence of Christian missionaries.


And a slightly naughty, very humourous Georgian guide book to Bath...



...Gosh, I haven't heard THAT name since I was a bored 6 year old!

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12 comments:

  1. Well............I saw some things that looked interesting to me, and while I was looking a that brown "pot thingy"...who did I spy in the mirror?? Love that black beaded purse.

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    1. Yes - love the purse too. I didn't realise I'd taken that clever photo until I got home!

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  2. Yes, the black beaded purse is my choice...gorgeous, and man in confederate hat with shot gun looks interesting. J.

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    1. More scary than interesting - and to think it used to be just "nice young men" in the antiques business.

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  3. Yes - the bag and the gun man; very interesting! Also, love the captions in the Georgian books. (But I have forgotten gloomy weather - it still looks gloomy!) Axxx

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    1. More gloom ahead too, at home in England we're becoming bored with talking about the weather - your photos are always so sparkly & sunny.

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  4. Six Suffolk puffs done already, only a swillion more to do to make a lovely cot cover. Then I've got to put it away for a 100 years to become beautifully faded and floppy. Have I got time I wonder?

    Is that you in the mirror I spy? Clever if it is; was it intentional?

    LLX

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    1. I'll have to admit that the photo was a complete fluke!

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  5. I fell in love with the Suffolk puffs quilt...
    Just beautiful.
    I have been having ago at doing some, my self as well..
    Isn't it lovely when you find such treasure...
    I am not mentioning the shabby British weather!!
    Have a week full of loveliness!
    Mariax

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    1. I agree - weather talk is taboo. On the bright side, least it's summer and there are plenty of gorgeous flowers about.

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  6. Great finds Nilly, especially the Georgian guide book to Bath.
    Lady B...what a great name!
    Julie x

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  7. Gosh, that looks like a soggy old event..well done for finding treasures! Lizzie

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