Vintage Connoisseur Gifts

La Dame aux Camelias

Cover Design for Savoy (No. 3)

Two upper class gentlemen discussing drinking fountains

'Wow, this vintage belongs in a better bar.'

Technology sidelight: Thomas Edison invents the silk lampshade with a fringe of translucent green beads.'

Cocktails on the verandah.

"Vintage? What would you like it to be?"

Sir Winston Churchill

Shoe Shine/Lace Tie

The Missing Sock Returns

Second hand furniture.

Military Medals

'My luck, I buy a bottle of wine from 450 B.C. and it's still five years from reaching maturity.'

Pashminas are sooo noughties!

"I know we just met, but all I got is a twenty-four-hour pass!"

'It's genuine 17th century satsuma - and the pair would have been worth ?14,000.'

Early Piety

'No, I'm not the sommelier; in fact, I don't even work here - I've just always wanted to try this wine.'

'Plimbco Bank &Trust, Old Money Division.'

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

"If you wish to manifest here, you'll have to change. We don't allow anything past 1950."

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

"I love these old decorations!"

Grandma's caf

An old-time engineer enters the cockpit on a flight.

The Young Ladies' Young Gentleman

"I want to be a more interesting person. Think maybe watching old black and white movies would do it?"

'Man...You age great!'

"How soon will this be a remnant

"Diamonds are so three billion years ago..."

Ladies by the seaside

A Footnote - Self Portrait of Beardsley, Bound to the God of Nature