ornaments from the 70s/80s

[sixtyten]

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Yep. both Good and bad things come from Staffordshire

like Clarice Cliff & Robbie Williams

Joking.. no, it was another hideous item on same page that was made in Staffs.
in fact, looking at the 'old toot" section of that 1974 catalogue, we seem to have had most of the rubbish in our house in the 'decade the taste forgot'

Brass chargers?? guilty

Brass posthorn? guilty

Brass bedpan? guilty

[Heather74]

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did that say it was made in staffordshire?

[sixtyten]

They were hideous. Although the plain porcelain rose on a silver stem wasn't so bad.

This is one I always remember from the 70's, when smoking wasn't the evil Bête Noire it is now..

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As mentioned on the "I ain't seen that in yonks" thread.
This hideous lump was my dear old Mum's Pride & Joy in the Seventies


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[joybee]

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...and who remembers the Capiodemonte Roses ???

[SQUIRREL]

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Yeah, great to see it, I forgot there was a mouse in the bottom but it makes sense.

[Trickyvee]

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My nana came up trumps with the nasty ornaments too. One I particularly remember, which I think was meant to be a lamp, was a sort of Roman figurine inside a cylinder that had wires running vertically around it. When you switched the light on, oil used to run down the wires in droplets. It was hideous!

[Trickyvee]

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I've just spotted the clocks! ha ha, they're just as I remember them!

My next door neighbour had one of those glasses with the china cat climbing up the side. I also rember lots of people having those ugly Spanish wine decanter things with the pointy end taking pride of place in the living room. How else could you advertise your exotic holiday in Benidorm?

[Richard1978]

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Those rotating ball clocks mentioned elsewherw are on some of the uploaded pages.

My Gran used to have a ceramic Bambi, that had had it's head cleanly broken off, but in a way it could be balanced on the neck.

My brother used to place it intact on a flat moveable surface & give it a quick wobble.

The head would then fly off & roll about in a rather macarbely amusing way.

My Mum used to collect Liliput Lane houses, but gave up when they kept withdrawing ones from the range before she could buy them.

[memoman]

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My Grandma collected them.And had mostr of the ones in the picture too.Very Seventies...

[davidthomas27]

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Like this one?

[SQUIRREL]

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I always wanted one of those big brandy glasses with a siamese cat trying to climb in!

[chilligrape]

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For me ornaments that deserve a mention have to be Lava lamps, the fibre optic ufo sytle lamps, fortune coin trees, wade animals, and little plastic bambi figures.
Ohhh and the multi coloured glass fish, remember those? And most Mum's seemed to own some sort of glass fruit bowl

My Nan also had plenty of the brass ones around and on the fire place that we use to be allowed to get the brasso out on.

My gran had the horse brasses, and nearly everyone I knew had a multicoloured glass fish or clown!

[Teejay]

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OMG Me and my sister had all of those! How lovely to see a picture of them! I've soooooo got to show her!! Thanks Hug.

x

[Hooper68]

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My mum had a glass fish ornament unfortunately it fell of the cabinet and smashed a piece of it stuck in the side of my foot:cry: and I've still got the scar to prove it

[kazboot]

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There are some really bad ornaments in those pics Nessie!
I mean why would you even want a brass pineapple?

That glass fish, Heather, I swear at one time everyone had one!

Lava lamps for the win! ( as my son would say)