You accept a vintage pottery pig as payment for your work. I happily received this vintage cold-painted piggy bank as my fee for consulting work. I adore her sweet face and the red roses that decorate her — butt but it’s the curly tail that charmed me the most. So this little piggy came wee-wee-wee [...]

An interview about collecting Frankoma and other vintage decorative pottery with Molly Ives Brower, aka The Vintage Reader. How and why did you start collecting Frankoma pottery? Was it, at first, just part of decorating the house? When I was in high school I started going to the Tulsa Flea Market with my mother every [...]

I purchased this vintage wall pocket awhile ago simply for it’s whimsy; what’s not to love about a pirate duck? It simply has to ‘quack’ you up — or you’ll be forced to walk the plank, arr! It’s a vintage ceramic piece, made in Japan, rather nicely painted under the glaze with additional spots of [...]

Since I already have a topless vintage cookie jar (I use it to hold my vintage rolling pins and store it, along with other vintage kitchen collectibles, above my kitchen cupboards), I couldn’t justify purchasing this cookie jar without a lid when I spotted it Saturday at a thrift store — no matter how the [...]