Vintage Lovers Gifts

"They, like, invented retro."

The Lost Tribe

"Pistols at dawn?"

'Here's trouble, it's the militant wing of the Philatelic Society!'

"Don't admire anything. He might give it to you."

Family sheltering beneath a woman's hat and the protruding bust and rear of her dress

"'Dancing Queen' MY WOTSIT! Fiddle with your own cassette!"

Fashion Magazine: In/Out/Back In.

Things of the past...

"My mom used to do all her texting on that."

Woman reading instruction manual on how to darn socks.

"Contact us on the mobile when you arrive"

'This is unbelievable. I see the message in the bottle is from 1906.'

'Do you think Kevin has the right aptitude for this work?'

'You never see phone booths anymore.'

Girl warns little boy that she will give him to a 'great, big ugly man', refering to a fashionably dressed swell passing by

The Beard Movement

A Victorian pharmacist.

"They don't make formula the way they used to."

"This just in! A fifteen-man nineteen-forties swing-era-style big band was discovered intact today in Brno, Czechoslovakia."

"My girl left me for another Edward Hopper painting."

"Is Portugal still friendly?"

Cocktails on the verandah.

Sir Winston Churchill

Second hand furniture.

"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.'

Military Medals

Pashminas are sooo noughties!

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

"Wheel, schmeel—check these babies out!"

Early Piety

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.