The counters in the main room at the Cottage are a favorite place for customers to peruse all the bright pretty pieces of jewelry we have collected over the years. We have a varied assortment: antique cameos, broaches, vintage costume jewelry, contemporary pieces and beautiful replicas of classic […]
Days are getting shorter, Fall is certainly here! Soon, we will have to turn back all our clocks when Daylight Savings Time comes around again. We thought you might enjoy seeing some of the many ways we can put clocks to beautiful use in home decor… […]
Tickets for November 4th and 5th Roses and Rust Vintage Market are available at the Cottage now. Stop by and get your tickets, avoid the lines and online ticket sale fees!
Our annual French Flea Market Tour is the ultimate adventure, so say all who have participated so far! Amazing shopping, sumptuous dining, beautiful locations for sightseeing… One of the lovely items I found in Provence is this antique bobbin lace loom. These looms produced the delicate and exquisite lace well loved by the discriminating […]
While in an Irish museum we discovered two types of antique zinc tubs like the ones we sell at the Cottage. It was fun finding out how they were used for doing laundry. Irish lace is unrivaled, went looking for some last month while we were […]
Our trip was memorable, so much to see, so much history….and shopping? well it was amazing! Unfortunately as lovely and rare the things we saw were, most were too big to bring home, though we managed to bring some of the great stuff we found.
A rare Victorian garden edger with all four symbols of the British Isles. Usually there was so much conflict between them they didn’t include every symbol in one decoration! A rainy day in Dublin For the avid stukadoor: Three generations of family collected these molds in Ireland
We had a wonderful time in Provence, on our annual Flea Market Tour. Here is a sample of what we saw, and what’s coming to the shop from our finds in France! The weather, the company and our itinerary, were all just perfect, this is the highlight of the year for us. We’d love to […]
This amazing iron piece would make a unique headboard, it’s big enough for a King size bed. Or, it would be equally grand installed as wall art. Its story is as unique and interesting as it looks. It was once an iron transit cover over an elevator from an early 1900’s building in New York City. […]