Tag: thrifting

  • James Gillray, Fine Bracing Weather

    James Gillray, Fine Bracing Weather

    James GIllray’s Fine Bracing Weather is part of series of seven etchings, entitled “Weather.” They depict various states of Englishmen “enjoying” the weather. The most famous of these is “Very Slippy weather,” because it shows a man slipping on the ice outside of the print shop where GIllray’s works were published.  This print shop was…

  • Hummel Plates made by Danbury Mint

    Hummel Plates made by Danbury Mint

    I’m trying something new in the Etsy Shop. Recently I came across a large lot of Hummel Plates made by Danbury Mint in the late 1980’s – early 1990’s. It was one of those days when I was wandering around the thrift store, looking for any random object that needed to be rescued. These little…