Tuesday Treasures - August 5, 2025

 I did go to the flea market on Sunday.  The temperature that day was only in the 80°s, sunny with a breeze.  

I browsed inside first.  The first seller I saw had postcards, but unfortunately he wanted $5 each!  I bought none.  I didn't find much else inside.  I got a pair of Japanese lusterware salt and pepper shakers, a pair of 1950s promotional giveaway Mr. Peanut for my son, and a 1940s glass "Mopey" dog.  The dog would have held little multi-colored candies. 

On to the outside, which was one of the fairground parking lots. 

I didn't realize until I got home that other than the glass dog all I bought were salt and pepper shakers!  That's because in the last row I went down outside I found sellers with nothing but shakers!  They had inherited them, and were still unwrapping them for the first time.  They, and I, oohed and aahed as they took them out, and I got a first grab at them!  Not really, no grabbing, but taking them before they were set on the table!  They had belonged to a woman who collected them, but didn't display quite a few.  They were still in boxes, with the gift giver's name and date given on masking tape stuck to the boxes. 

These aren't the oldest, but are my favorite find.  1950s Japanese redware pottery cats. Redware is made with iron rich clay which turns red when fired.  My only other piece of redware is a dachshund from St. Vincent de Paul.*

A close second, and I can't explain why they aren't first, are another pair of cats. Longboys.  I had never seen longboys in real life, and when the woman opened a box and I saw these, I had to have them!  Oh, where to find the room for these?   There are also shaker forms called tallboys.  Japan 1950s-60s

Clockwise from upper left: 

• Tipp USA milk glass with metal lids and carrier,  40s-50s
• Lapin, USA, with Bakelite tops and celluloid caddy.  The date they were gifted to the previous owner (masking tap stuck to the bottom) was 1942, but they could be older.  They are only 2.5" high.
• These individual Japanese lusterware shakers are just 1".
• Carvanite push button from the 1940s, made in the USA.  Carvanite was a type of early plastic, and was a popular material for travel sets, such as these, with push buttons.

I have a donkey carrier with just salt and peppers, but this one has oil and vinegar too!  GNCO, Japan, from the 1950s-1960s.  This particular set was given as a Mother's Day Gift in 1953.  The note was tucked inside one of the cruets.

The last was given to me free, it's a lone cat, ala Tom Kitten, but not Tom Kitten, and definitely not a quality product!

Don't know Tom Kitten?  

The Tale of Tom Kitten

I'd planned to post the second part of my last St. Vincent de Paul haul today, but then I went to the flea market.  So, you'll have to wait until next Tuesday for that.  

*the redware dachshund