Which the poor, unenlightened seller thought were from the '50s (probably because pink was big in the '50s). So there I was, blissfully and brain-deadly flipping through pages and pages of kitschy poodles, when all of a sudden there were these horses.ĭarlins, these objects are the sign, signifier and signified of H-O-R-S-E. '50s & '60s are my decades of preference for poodles. I have a tiny (4, now 5 with above) poodle collection (does not include brooches of which I have 2, including one late '60s or early '70s Calvin Klein, Goodwill, $1, thank you very much, bought long before The Internet), which you can see on the app Boxes, which I reviewed here. Random, I know, but that’s just the way it is. (That dusty (till I get it) ‘50s? '40s? cast iron, bobble-head/-tail poodle pincushion up there – also acquired this session – is what happens. Takes me back to a more innocent time – in my own life, in our world… …browsing eBay for vintage poodle jewelry and figurines. My preferred “too-fried-to-function” or “just-can’t deal-with-reality-right-now” activity, to which I must resort about 3 times a year is… Then Etsy got to be the fun place! But then Etsy got big and there was a lot of crap there too. But then all those Chinese mass producers started taking it over, and the kit crafters too, and it wasn’t the fun place it had been at first. I moved my regular treasure-hunting to eBay for a long time. Yes, Virginia, you can still find treasures on eBay!!!īeing a lifelong thrift store treasure hunter, I realized quite a while ago that I could no longer hope to stumble across under-priced vintage sterling brooches at the Goodwill, that everybody had finally gotten a clue and now the good stuff was all on eBay, and people consulted price guides and so on…
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