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While checking out my usual thrift stops last week, I came across this great gem. The Great Turtle Race. This board game is in great shape with all the pieces included. It is a Parker Bro. game. Made in Canada from 1976. Ages 3 to 10. Here is a Canadian commerical in french. You get 3 plastic turtles a spinner and the board you use is the inside bottom part of the the box. It's a bright pretty colorful box. The board inside also spins when the turtle goes on "wake-up" mode. We played with my 6yr old niece. She loved it, thought it was fun and silly.
When I was 8 or 9 my mom gave me a brooch of a pink nylon plastic elephant with a clear rhinestone eye. I loved this pin, more than any other piece of jewelry that I had at the time. Sadly that brooch and the majority of my childhood artifacts were all picked up by a junk collection company a couple of years ago. The great thing is that I see this brooch for sale on Etsy every once and awhile, so I know I can pick one up when I want it back in my life. Pink Elephant Pin @ The Vintage Mart With that memory as the inspiration for this post. Over the past 4 years I have been able to find a few Buch + Deichmann pins, thanks to " Talize "(a second hand shop down the street) I have found them in 3 different styles, Dolphin, Mask, and the Bird. The bird is my new favorite. Here is some information on the company that use to make these gem. B+D( Buch + Deichmann)started up in Denmark in the early 70s. Buch + Deichmann ...
We were out and about yesterday at our usual spots, looking for gift ideas, when I found some pretty exciting vintage jewelry pieces. The first thing I spotted was this D'Orlan gold tone brutalist style choker. Now this D'Orlan necklace is nothing like the ones I use to sell at the jewelry counter at The Buchart Gardens. Those one are the kind with the glass beads and semi-precious stones. My mother gave me her set, which was gifted to her by my father when they first came to Canada. So on returning home I started to do some research. I found a couple of good sites. Vintage North was a really good source and so was Creed Canada . Some of the information I knew from before but I learn a few things. Here is a short summary: D'Orlan was founded in 1957 by Mr. Maurice J. Bradden. In the 50's he became Mr.Boucher’s protégé. Mr. Marcel Boucher was a prolific designer of costume jewelry and his names signify quality m...
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Lisa