Vintage Market Goer Gifts

At the Riverside, off Billingsgate Fish Market

Demure lady with gloves

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!

The Elliot Ness monster.

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

Early Piety

Wine enthusiast tries to make his way to Cork.

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

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

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

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

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

"How soon will this be a remnant

The Young Ladies' Young Gentleman

"Are you looking to accentuate or camouflage?"

"I love these old decorations!"

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

Grandma's caf

Ladies by the seaside

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

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

'I know I complimented you on that outfit last time you wore it, but that was in 1980.'

"Remember, history was easier back in your day. There's so much more of it now."

"Of course, I'm perfectly willing to pay my income tax, but I stayed home all day on the fifteenth, and nobody came."

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'