Goodwood Antiques Fair

Well, I did find some of the things on my wish list and am very pleased with everything I bought today.  I often find that I buy a lot from just one stallholder and today I found four eiderdowns (including a matching pair) and two trugs from the same man.  (A certain little dog decided to pose in the photo too!)

I often have French trugs for sale so have bought a Sussex trug; this one has seen lots of use and I often wonder what the previous gardener grew - were they a vegetable or flower grower?  The other trug was used to display one dozen Heinz Cream of Celery soup tins.

Soda syphons seem to be having a resurgence in popularity and I particularly like this one.  I would love to have found a blue one but didn't see any at all.

I shall keep this mould myself.  I was told it is a blancmange mould but I think it may be a curd or cream cheese mould.  There is the shape of a pineapple in the base, though, suggesting a sweet rather than savoury use.  Maybe you know.....  Apparently an embossed pineapple was a sign of welcome.

Other items I bought were a shopping basket (how did they get all their shopping into a basket this size?), a butter stamp, a barkcloth curtain, two guest towels and 2 metres of Hungarian grain sacking.

However, the piece de resistance has got to be this bed which has yet to be assembled so I am only showing the foot and headboards.  Once I saw it I just had to have it; I just love it.  I shall put it either in the loft bedroom (which has yet to be decorated and cleared of all my Oh So Vintage 'stuff' and cardboard boxes etc. or I may put it in the summerhouse to be used as a day bed.

I hope if you have attended an antiques fair today, either as a buyer or seller that you have had a very successful day.