Thursday, June 22, 2017

A Little Thrifting

Gentle Friends, out and about again over the weekend and I found some fun things....

...  I picked up 3 things... the nice aquatint of a mill in the Calvados region of northern France...

... I also picked up this great little hard past porcelain cup, I think it's a punch cup, due to the decoration.  I've been looking at it for almost a month at the Goodwill, but I just couldn't justify the purchase until it hit the half price shelves on Saturday - 

... and I found this at a thrift store...It's a reproduction and contains stone removed from the Cathedral during restoration work. This is from Wells Cathedral c. 1240 - from the east aisle of the north transept and represents a sexless Salamander, a reminder to the monks of their vow of celibacy.
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There you go sports fans, thanks again for stopping by do stop again!!

Take care,
edgar  



5 comments:

  1. Great finds. That's most certainly an interesting salamander!

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  2. Nice finds. The info on the last item was very interesting.

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  3. You always manage to find such great things!!!That cup is beautiful and what interesting facts about the last piece.

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