Vintage Vibes Gifts

Florence Nightingale

A Native American making smoke signals consults index cards.

'It's oldie rock 'n' roll but I like it.'

Victorian couple in bed.

'If it's made in the USA, it's an antique.'

"Secondhand books, reheated coffee"

"No, Billy, I don't play the horn anymore. I just like to take it out every once and again so's to give an old friend a great big tallywhack on the head!"

"And what do you think my husband is worth?"

"Kid's today!"

'Stamp auction' WW2 Victory stamps on two fingers

'Where's the autocorrect?'

Frontispiece to 'A Book of Bargains' by V O'Sullivan- Depicts an Apparition from one of the Stories

'Don't ask me how I know you took far too many drugs in the sixties. I just know.'

Good old days banking: First National Counting house.

Islington Angels.

bir-MING-ham vase

Old Scientist.

"Call me old fashioned, but when a girl has more tattoos than I have..."

'No, man, I don't know where you're coming from. But if I had to guess, I'd say the early Seventies.'

"It's called a mobile... but I've been here an hour and have yet to see it move."

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

"Far out, man."

Man and computer

Interior Un-Decorator: We Help You Downsize!

"The guy who wrote 'The Frog Chorus' is sounding kinda croaky."

"It's going to cost more than it's worth to fix it. In fact, it's going to cost more than it's worth just to dispose of it."

"Of course ... I was a lot younger 50 years ago."

An old, dancing man holding a steaming cup

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

Marquis

The height of fashion in 1796

"Lost a step? Hell, no. Those young zebras are juiced."

"I love blue Martinis. It's like the fifties and the nineties all mixed up together."

"You remind me of why I found the eighties wanting."

"This CD player costs less than players selling for twice as much."