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The Easter Bunny comes to AntiquesAvenue
Posted by: | CommentsThe Easter Bunny is coming to AntiquesAvenue on Easter Sunday. As you would expect from me Bunny will be delivering vintage jewellery instead of Easter eggs this year. Far less fattening and lasting much longer than chocolate eggs this jewellery is going completely free to one lucky hunter one www.antiquesavenue.co.uk . Please make sure you look in the shop not on this blog for this little treat.
The jewellery will be placed on the site at some time during Easter Sunday 24th April 2011 and will remain until the first person grabs the freebie or if it is not grabbed I will remove the offer at sometime on Monday 25th. You will have to hunt around a bit just like a real Easter egg hunt. There is one lot only of this free jewellery available for Easter – as shown in the pictures below. This is all costume jewellery and there are no substitutes available for any of the items.
Easter freebie
How to grab you free Easter Jewellery:
This lot ( as shown in the pictures ) will be placed on www.antiquesavenue.co.uk at some time during April 24th. You will need to hunt around a bit but it will be there and it will be added during the day sometime before 7.00 pm UK time.
The lot will be priced at £0.00 ( including delivery).
Only one lot is available and only the first person trying to grab this will be successful – once its gone its gone. If not grabbed this jewellery will be removed at sometime on Monday 25th
Proceed to grab the jewellery by pressing the “buy now” button and proceed through checkout entering your name , address and e.mail address but do not enter your credit card information instead press the “pay by phone” . No payment will be required.
I will post out this jewellery to you as soon as the post re-opens after Easter.
No substitutes for any of the items . One lot only.
I will not answer any queries on this offer until Tuesday 26th April.
The items in this lot of vintage jewellery are:
Goldtone bangle with floral decoration, hardstone ring,
pair gold tone floral clip on earrings, black and pearl bead necklace,
bottle charm with stone chips, blue brooch, suitcase locket, blue stone pendant on chain, diamante leaf brooch.
Good Luck and Happy Easter Hunting
Anne x
Antique and Vintage bric a brac – free to charity
Posted by: | CommentsI have a load of antique and vintage bric a brac to give away to a registered charity or worthy cause. There are boxes full of old pots and glass fit for a Car Boot Sale, Charity Shop or similar. These must be collected from me in the next couple of days and I will require proof of your registered charity or worthy cause status. Please do contact me .
Mystery item – can you guess what it is? Butterfly clip
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s a very pretty but sadly damaged item which is a bit unusual and I am not exactly sure of its purpose. Can you help me?
Mystery butterfly
There are 2 pierced “silver ” butterflies which are separated by a coiled spring. This arrangement sits on top of a further long spring and is then attached to a pointed metal bar. On the back are some symbols which I suspect are oriental (Chinese or Japanese writing?). It is actually made of silver.
Butterfly with spike
So what is this pretty object? The metal bar is meant to stick into something and perhaps you could hold a piece of card or perhaps a flower between the butterflies. In total it measures about 19 cms long and 6.5 cms across the wing tips of the butterflies.
My guess it that it was originally intended to be used at an elegant banquet or buffet . It would be stuck into a cake or a pile of sandwiches and a little card would tell the dinner the about the food. Does anyone have any better ideas?
As this piece has damage to the butterflies wing tips I cannot sell it and am going to send it for free to the person with the best reply to this post. As it is such a romantic thing I am going to close the offer on Valentines day February 14th. Please check back on this Blog to see if are the new owner.
Give Aways News – November and December free gifts
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I have decided to send Novembers free give away brooch to Gill who wants the brooch for her aunt. Gill please do get in touch with your address and it will be on its way to you.
Decembers give away is a rather nice glass paperweight decorated with a violet and a butterfly. It is much nicer in real life thaninthis picture. If you would like to have this paperweight sent to you just add a comment here and I will choose one of you to send it to at the end of December. As always this free gift give away is open to anyone world wide.
Vintage Brooch for Free – November Giveaway
Posted by: | CommentsHere is Novembers Give Away from AntiquesAvenue. This vintage brooch is bright and colourful – I find it particularly interesting due to the wide range of materials used in in. The frame is metal – the diamante are glass, the flowers seem to be real dried miniatures set under plastic. With a mainly turquoise / Blue colourway I think this costume jewellery brooch dates from the 1960s
Vintage Brooch