Vintage Finds Enthusiast Gifts

'I got it at a sale of slightly irregular clocks.'

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Cocktails on the verandah.

Sir Winston Churchill

Second hand furniture.

Pashminas are sooo noughties!

Military Medals

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

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

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

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

Early Piety

'Plimbco Bank &Trust, Old Money Division.'

The original paperless office

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

Early Colour TV

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

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

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

Wine enthusiast tries to make his way to Cork.

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

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

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

"Are you looking to accentuate or camouflage?"

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

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

The Young Ladies' Young Gentleman

"I love these old decorations!"

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

Ladies by the seaside