Tuesday, 3 May 2022

My Charity Shop Vintage Turquoise Glass Dressing Table Set

This has got to be one of my most favourite charity shop finds in a long, long time, if ever and it’s definitely a keeper.

Vintage turquoise Dressing Table set

As soon as I entered my favourite charity shop in Evesham I spotted just the colour, sat sitting on the bottom shelf of rather bland and boring, ramshackle collection of glass bits and pieces.  Erm, I do believe that I may have pounced, not unlike a lion on noticing a lone gazelle at the watering hole!

Vintage Turquoise Dressing Table Set.

The set was complete, comprising of a large tray, small trinket tray, two candlesticks, and a large lidded bowl/dish with two further matching, smaller ones…….

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….. all precariously grouped together with a few strands of Sellotape …..

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…… in flawless condition, not a single chip, doink or crack!  It had to be mine, especially given the colour of my boudoir, painted to remind me of the colour of the sea in Greece.

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I have never seen anything this colour before, no even in random, single pieces and as very few complete sets come up on Google/Pinterest, I am guessing that it’s a pretty hard to find colour.

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When I posted it on one of the Facebook charity shop pages I follow someone suggested that it may have been a prize in a Woolworth’s competition? 

Oh, and the price, hidden under one of the pots? £4, £4??!!  As I said this is a keeper, which I intend to bequeath only to someone I know will love it as much as I do on my death bed!

Happy days!

1 comment:

Cheryl W said...

Beautiful set! After having seen some photos you shared of your boudoir, it will definitely look fantastic there.