Goodies and Gossip

Well I didn't do too well finding a pirate outfit for Michael.  Nine op shops failed me there.  However, I did pick up a book and a pair of earrings. And if you want a framed Wallebies jersey signed by John Eales, there's one in Vinnies at Proe Street, Newstead.

The highlight was seventeen pieces of Rosenthal china that I found at Vinnies, Northgate; left there nobly, stewed about them for a few hours at home, then went back to buy them.

Since I came home, I have done some research. The designer, Dorothy Hafner, has designed for Tiffany & Co as well as Rosenthal. 'Her works are in museum collections worldwide'.  She designed the Flash tableware collection for Rosenthal in 1982. http://thechromologist.com/80s-design-classic-dorothy-hafners-flash/ 

I think I have just become a Flash collector, but only from op shops.  The online prices are too high for me.  The current online bid on ebay for one of the large plates I bought is more than I paid for all seventeen pieces.  Please let me know if you see any out there.

The hot gossip is that the Op Shop strip at Capalaba will soon be no more. Save The Children, Endeavour and Footprints are side by side in Dollery Road, very central, with parking out front and well worth a visit, but their leases are up in October and will not be renewed.   The block will become a development site. Honestly people! Priorities!

Anyway, further gossip is that Save The Children are soon to open shops in Chermside (yay) and Annerley.  Annerley is already an op shop hot spot, so the customers are there already. Chermside is op shop deprived now that Lifeline has closed, as well as my beloved the RSPCA shop at Kedron.