Spice up your kitchen with vintage wares at online auctions
07 May 2020 Lockdown has meant more time for baking and cooking at home so why not splash out on some quirky vintage items to spice up your cooking cave.1. Ingredient storage jars
Whether it is a creating a sourdough starter for your bread baking or storing sultanas for your fruit loaf cake you might want some more jars to keep your ingredients handy. Over at Hansons, alongside a large collection of Bretby art pottery, is this group of storage jars and covers with blue glazed and white banded decoration (above). The largest is 7in (18cm) tall and the group is estimated at £50-80 at the auction taking place on May 21-26.
View and bid for this Bretby art pottery storage jar collection via thesaleroom.com.
2. Baking accessories
Budding bakers may want to get there hands on this Cornishware collection including a vintage advertising rolling pin. The sale is not until July 8-9 at Stroud Auctions so plenty of time to prepare. The collection is estimated at £30-40.
View and bid for this Cornishware collection via thesaleroom.com.
3. Cake stand
Once you have baked your cake, how about a cake stand to show it off in photos to post on social media? This cake stand with a blue bird/swallow design has a starting estimate of £24 at William George at an auction that ends on May 17.
View and bid for cake stand via thesaleroom.com.
4. Butter dish and plate
Now you have made your sourdough, you will want to enjoy it with some butter. Add a sense of luxury to proceedings with this Victorian hallmarked silver scallop moulded butter dish, dated London 1901. It comes with a silver saucer and both are estimated at £30-50 at Adam Partridge’s sale on May 26-29.
View and bid for this silver butter dish via thesaleroom.com.
5. Marmalade pot and plate
Toast and marmalade are perfect together in the morning, especially if you made your own bread. Why not add this marmalade pot and plate to your service? The Clarice Cliff 'Magnolia' plate and the Minton orange-shaped marmalade pot have an estimate of £10-20 at an online auction at Smiths Newent on May 15.
View and bid for this Clarice Cliff plate and marmalade pot via thesaleroom.com.
6. Vintage advertising sign
Once you have all the key items in your kitchen you might want to brighten it up with a vintage enamel advertising sign. Some are in big demand and this 'Brooke Bond Tea', catalogued as mid-20th century, is estimated at £100-200 at Locke & England on June 11.
View and bid for this Brooke Bond Tea advertising sign via thesaleroom.com.