Vintage Vase Enthusiast Gifts

'I'm sorry but the cracks in this Coalition vase render it completely worthless.'

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.'

Early Piety

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

Cover Design for the Yellow Book, Vol 3- Street Lamps Lighting a Lady's Toilet Mirror

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel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'.'

The Young Ladies' Young Gentleman

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

"How soon will this be a remnant

"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..."

Large print rock'n'roll section

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

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

"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?'

"If the weather stays good, we could end up in a very prestigious 1992 Cabernet Sauvignon."