I've just returned from a lovely holiday in Austria. Normally when I'm on holiday I might visit the odd antiques shop, but as my husband and I often go to destinations where you have to fly, there isn't really the opportunity for buying vintage items. This time we travelled by car, and there was a flea market near our hotel on Sunday, so we decided to check it out. It turned out to be a really good one, with lots of stalls and plenty of private sellers. And isn't this the best view at a flea market, ever?
We've found some lovely things at this first market. From left to right: A Goebel ceramic fish money bank, two Rörstrand tea or coffee jugs in the pattern Irene, a Bitossi vase in the decor Sahara, a glass elephant paperweight (which is marked, but I haven't figured out who made it), and a blue Bay vase.
The first few days we had lovely weather, but later on in the week it started to rain. As we weren't able to go biking as planned because of that, we decided to do some more hunting. We visited a number of antique malls/halls and charity sales in the area. Again, we came up with a pretty good haul!
From left to right we found a ceramic lantern by one of the West German factories, a Holmegaard candle holder, a Bay Fat Lava vase, a Ceramano jug (sadly, damaged at the handle), and a large yellow Sklo Bullet vase.
At a charity sale for a local animal shelter we also found this beautiful cup and saucer by Weimar Porzellan in kobalt blue, which is weirdly also marked by Goebel. I discovered these are called a Herrengedeck or a Fernsehgedeck in German. The saucer is extra large so it can contains some cake or cookies. Very convenient!
The day before we left we visited one more antiques hall near our hotel. This hall was full of little stands and small shops and opened every sunday morning. We had to get up pretty early to fit it in our schedule, seeing we also had to drive the 1000 km home, but we weren´t disappointed!
Again, from left to right: a Scheurich 414-16 with fab blue and black crusty glaze, two teak vikings, one carrying a massive spear, a small glass elephant by Bertil Vallien, a Sommerso Murano vase in blue and yellow, a Bavaria Porzellan trinket box, a Baller bronze donkey/zebra, possibly by Walter Bosse, and a Scheurich vase with a beautiful blue and yellow glaze.
We were just about to leave when we spotted one more store around the corner. As a cherry on the cake this shop contained a fab shaped Bertoncello vase and one of the best Nierentisch I have seen in a long time!
Most of these items will be for sale in my Etsy shop, which you can check out at www.etsy.com/shop/Vaseomania
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