ornaments from the 70s/80s

[sixtyten]

Re: ornaments from the 70s/80s

So did my Mum.
horse brasses, coal buckets, etc..
however, there is good bad taste & bad bad taste.
Just because someone collects brass, does not mean they would want two brass frogs sitting on a brass bench, as one ex-girlfriend once bought my Mum.
I had to politely tell her it really wasn't my Mum's thing

[joybee]

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Nan's were (are I've got 'em upstairs) home made war relics. Two money boxes, two spillcups and two minature hearth fenders - the money boxes and spill cups made from bomb shells -or gun shells ?? about 8 " long and an inch and a half in diameter

[sixtyten]

Re: ornaments from the 70s/80s

one word..EBAY

[Heather74]

LOL

My Mum collected lilliput lane cottages at one time, but people started to buy her the cheap nasty rip offs

My other Nan use to have quite a few big shire horse with brass chains pulling carts, in her window, anyone remember them?

[sixtyten]

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I can remember getting my Mum Wade Whimsies.. which were hideous, and barely resembled the animals they were meant to be.
I have no doubt now that she never actually collected them, we just bought them as they were pocket money priced & thought she'd like 'em.
If she'd have said "God, that's hideous", we would never have bought anymore, but Mum's never say that.
Bit like going to dinner at a person's house who is not that great a cook, and telling them the "insert dinner" was great..
You'll get it every time you eat there again.. forever

[Heather74]

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LOL 'pocket money price prezzies you thought your Mum loved'... my poor mum got american tan tights every birthday and christmas

[sixtyten]

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Beats painting your legs with Bisto, surely"

[Heather74]

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she always managed to look pleased

[sixtyten]

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At least it wasn't Pop Socks

never worked out what Pop Socks were for

Opps.. gone way Off Topic

[joybee]

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I was ! It saved me buying my own - don't worry, my daughters a Mod, she can clean up after us rofl

[sixtyten]

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Your own what?
Tights? Pop Socks?

Bisto??

[joybee]

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American Tan tights, silly :P

[Heather74]

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Heres the Shire Horse I mentioned

[sixtyten]

Re: ornaments from the 70s/80s

More like Pony & Trap.

[kazboot]

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I had a shire horse with a gipsy caravan bought for me in the early eighties by my mother in law.
It was a bit tacky, but she was into that sort of thing herself and of course I had to display it for her sake!
She had a Capodimonte rose also and horse brasses.

In the late seventies there was a craze for all things onyx as well. Especially ashtrays and table lighters.

My husband used to buy me a Wade Whimsie every week before we were married. I still have them all.