Monday 14 October 2024

Around the Malvern Fleamarket


 I have always loved these beautiful Victorian copper moulds.  Theyr'e difficult to display though unless you have a dedicated dresser shelf or two and some are quite expensive.  They generally sell around £65 - £100 at Fairs.



Most people just sell whatever they have gotten hold of at a reasonable price and of course the house-clearance bods, whatever comes their way from house clearances.  Other dealers are dedicated to toys, glass, certain makers of ceramics, signage etc. I loved the little rocking horse and the corner cupboard.


Various quilts.  Only the dark green pinwheel one looks a UK handmade design.


A sweet little grandad-made? horse.


Above and below: Mr Sign Man, who has some truly splendid ridge tiles this time! He must order these specially.



I think this is French as the English ones never had coloured designs are.  Whenever I see Christening gowns I think of the ones which used to turn up week after week at every auction we went to back in Dorset, selling for about £16 - £18 each (1980s).  Happy times.  How I wish I could turn back the clock.


Here is a nice old hand-quilted quilt.  I don't think those are Carmarthenshire patterns, but it could well be Welsh, bearing in mind Malvern isn't too far from the Welsh border.


An unusual (French I think) street scene made from paper.


Another lovely horse needing a rocker to be useful again.


The Maypole Dairy had strong links with Denmark.  My grandad, who was a grocer for the West Country years of his life, worked for them and I always think of him when I see a Maypole Dairies piece.  I have resisted temptation thus for as they aren't cheap. 


A couple of stalls next to one another with some interesting pieces.  I especially liked their re-purposing of an old and faded hexi quilt into other things - will see if I can make a couple of the hexi Christmas trees, using some of the beautiful Liberty fabrics I got in the August Fair here.



I have some fine woollen fabrics with stripes to make the stripey one on the left.



Great stalls to make you stop and look.


Oh look, that's me reflected in the mirror!  I had a lovely day, but was very tired after sleeping badly the night before - cat zoomies - and then being woken by them at 4 a.m. and that was it for the night.


I am about to force myself to go for a walk.  It's cold and damp out there and my body is tired, but needs the exercise.

14 comments:

  1. Those Victorian copper moulds are just beautiful but at that price I would also leave them. Thanks for sharing the pictures. I wish I was there, so many beautiful things
    KJ

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  2. Oh what a great sale. I like to wander places like this. Like you, I get ideas on what I can do with things.

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  3. Love the stalls with all sorts of bits and bobs to look at.
    There's a small Antique fayre not too far away next weekend, this was the one with no where to park early in the year where I had to drive round and out again. I shall try going earlier this year.

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  4. What a lovely selection of stalls. The Maypole pot reminds me of when we lived a couple of miles outside Truro in the 1950/60's. On Tuesday Mr Tremelling "The Maypole Man" would come to the village and visit each house to take the order which would then be delivered on Thursday. We also had visits from the butcher, the fish monger and the veg man. He sold potatoes by the gallon. Is that a Cornish term? Glad you had a good day. (Jane).

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  5. A lovely assortment.
    I like kitchenalia that can still be used

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  6. It’s lovely seeing all those beautiful objects through your eyes. The copper moulds were beautiful but I couldn’t be bothered to clean them. I’m looking for less housework as I get older. Still hoping for the 25th as a moving date. Take care. Xx

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  7. Lots of lovely things that would be far too tempting. I've always fancied one of those repro Victorian ridge tiles (all the ones in your photo are currently on offer on eBay) and hope that maybe we can fit one on the porch when the builder finally gets around to doing it. I saw the centre dragon one in a shop in Barnstaple many years ago and then it, or at least the same one appeared on the roof of a terraced house that could be seen from a traffic lights I went through most days.

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  8. The horse without his rockers is lovely, I think he would look brilliant stood at the side of the sofa with a blanket draped across him ready to pull over me on chilly nights. :-)

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    1. I saw him standing along side a fireplace!

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    2. We've got the one Danny and Emma bought (Indian horse) in our fireplace downstairs, as no room for him up in what was their bedroom.

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  9. Have just caught up with nearly 3 months of posts. Very sorry to hear about Keith. Sending best wishes to you. Beverley.

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    1. Hi Beverley. That's a lot of reading. I do miss Keith so.

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  10. Those are beautiful moulds. Such great stalls.

    God bless.

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    1. I took photos of the more interesting ones. There was an awful lot of dross again.

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