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eBay Scavenger: A Little New and a Little Vintage

We searched through the depths of ebay and are bringing you some of our favorite pieces, some with a past and some without. There's a set of commercial bread pans, vintage table linens, candy molds ...

Dessert on the Go: Vintage Cake Carriers

For family meals and holidays, my grandma would often bring a dessert, along with her relish tray. It would always come in a large Regal Ware aluminum cake carrier, making whatever was inside even mor...

Look! Vintage Menu Board

Michele at Fine Furious Life has an old menu board hanging in her kitchen, and she likes to put her dinner menus up for friends when they come to eat. We like this idea - do you ever write up your din...

Antique Linen Kitchen Towels
eBay Scavenger

Someone very kind recently gave us a set of vintage French linen towels, and we love them. Vintage linen is incredibly strong and durable and wears with a beautiful gentility. Here's a lot of vintage...

Vintage Stovetop Potato Baker
eBay Scavenger

Happy Earth Day! It's a good day to buy vintage (if you're doing any buying at all). There are so many kitchen treasures squirreled away in eBay. Take this one, for instance. It's a little late in the...

Vintage Griffiths Milk Glass Spice Jars
eBay Scavenger 04.08.08

We posted a question yesterday about spice jars and it got us thinking about vintage spice containers. Here's a whole Scavenger focused on just a few of the beautiful vintage spice jars you can find ...

Win a Date with Jamie Oliver!
eBay Scavenger 04.01.08

Now here is one eBay auction we just couldn't pass up. To promote his new book in the States and to help create awareness and raise money for his city school food programs, Jamie Oliver is raffling of...

Vintage Whipped Cream Dispenser
eBay Scavenger

How about a little whipped cream to go with all that pie? Check out this vintage mid-century whipped cream dispenser. It looks like it's in great condition, but we're not sure if you could still find ...

Vintage Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
eBay Scavenger

It's the month of The Hungry Reader, so here's a 1945 vintage copy of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from eBay - we love the font and typography on these old versions, as well as the recipes. (...

Reed and Barton Silverplate Dimension Tea and Coffee Set
eBay Scavenger

Our post below on Anthropologie's newest teapots got us interested in antique tea-things on eBay. This incredible Reed & Barton Dimension tea and coffee set dates to 1961 and was purchased from...

eBay Scavenger: Dansk Kobenstyle Pots and Pans

This witty and enthusiastic post at Thus Bakes Zarathustra reminded us of our thing for Dansk Kobenstyle. A dose of that Danish color is exactly what we need right now, so here's our picks of the b...

eBay Scavenger: Vintage Fortune Cookie Maker

This is coming a little late for Lunar New Year but we couldn't pass up this vintage Fortune Cookie Maker. The incredibly retro box really had us going; was this for real? It's currently going for $...

eBay Scavenger: Solid Brass Pie Crimper

We're always looking for ways to make our pies prettier - our crusts certainly aren't of a prize-winning breed. Maybe this weighty-looking brass pie tool and crimper would put some style in our cru...

eBay Scavenger: Arcade Coffee Grinder

Maxwell's Apartment Therapy Daily Email was all about coffee grinders yesterday - specifically, the best coffee grinder you don't know about. There's one of these rare coffee grinders available on e...

Vintage Chocolate Posters

Chocolate has had some classy advertising. There are beautiful poster prints for sale on eBay, with lush, romantic images used to sell chocolate over the last hundred years; we would like to hang o...

eBay Scavenger: Vintage Ghirardelli Cocoa Tins

These vintage Ghirardelli cocoa tins are old and have that patina of age, but they are unopened and still have cocoa inside! We don't recommend baking with this antique cocoa, but the tins would loo...

Jamie Oliver's Warm, Vintage Style

We love the worn-in, hearty look of Jamie Oliver's new show, Jamie At Home. The camera lingers on generous glugs of olive oil and crazing lines in old ceramic jugs while Jamie smokes fish and yanks ho...

eBay Scavenger: Turquoise Ceramic Baking Mold

Today this beautiful Light Turquoise Ceramic Baking Mold caught us. The color is delicate and lovely, and imagine a cake baked in that mold, dusted with powdered sugar! Elegant and simple. It's curr...

eBay Scavenger: Vintage French Fry Maker

Wow. This Vintage French Fry Maker probably had quite a life, slicing potatoes into perfect thick-cut fries in Chicago and Indiana. Wonder how many burgers and fries it saw in its long life? Only $....

eBay Scavenger: Mixer Thing

We couldn't pass up this one: this Vintage Mixer Thing is currently going for just 99 cents, and the seller has no idea what "this thing is". They say, I KNOW IT'S OLD. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S FOR MIXING ...

eBay Scavenger: Presto Hot Dogger

This may not be in the best of taste, and it's certainly not holiday related. But we couldn't pass up the chance to show you this vintage Presto Hot Dogger Hot Dog Cooker. Yes, it cooks up to six ho...

Un-Gift Guide 2007: eBay! Atomic Orange Salt 'n Pepper Shakers and more...

Why encourage the making of more stuff when there's so much cool stuff in the world already? One Ungifty way to give a great gift this Christmas is to look on eBay for pre-loved kitchen stuff, which...

eBay Scavenger: Antique Seltzer Bottles

Vintage seltzer bottles were on our Christmas list this year. The shapes are so interesting, and they are often engraved with the names of long-defunct bottling plants or seltzer delivery companies. ...

eBay Scavenger: Vintage Christmas Cake Pans

Old World vintage Christmas - these three vintage cake pans have a different twist compared to the standard Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel offerings this holiday season. They're currently g...

eBay Scavenger: Pop-O-Matic Cream Whipper

Uni-tasker! But with Super Speed Planetary Action, who could resist? The Whip-O-Matic cream whipper is good for topping pumpkin pies with fresh whipped cream or shaking up a salad dressing, and it's...