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[Vintage Betty]

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Wonderful Wine glasses?
Phenomenal Pipes?
A Terrific Tiki Bar?
Amazing Ashtrays?

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[Vintage Betty]

Wining & Dining with Rhyme & Reason, 1933

Wining & Dining with Rhyme & Reason, 1933

I have absolutely no idea where I picked up this book, but the brochure from the Quebec Labor Commission was inside it.

 

[Smithy]

Thanks for posting that Vintage Betty.

In the way of oldies I have "The Savoy Cocktail" book buried away somewhere along with a rather old edition of Escoffier's "Le Guide Culinaire". Both wonderful.

 

[Vintage Betty]

Thanks for posting that Vintage Betty.

In the way of oldies I have "The Savoy Cocktail" book buried away somewhere along with a rather old edition of Escoffier's "Le Guide Culinaire". Both wonderful.

It's a great book, isn't it? I still chuckle each time I open it. I hope we have the pleasure of seeing your treasures in the near future.

Vintage Betty

 

[Smithy]

I'll try and dig both out. We still have a lot of boxes of things packed away from when we moved here to Norway. They're in there somewhere!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I have a few absinthe glasses, and other hardware in my collection.

 

[Feraud]

Here is some vintage home barware.

Snack dishes

shot glasses

 

[Quigley Brown]

I'm not a smoker, but I love my atomic age 'boomerang' ashtrays...

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[Feraud]

I'm not a smoker, but I love my atomic age 'boomerang' ashtrays...

Wow! Nice ashtrays.:eusa_clap

 

[rumblefish]

There was a time this box would be at least 1/3 filled with cigars. I given up all smoking including pipes and cigars for fear of going back to cigarettes. so now it sits empty, that's why I posted here instead of a cigar thread.

I never figured what the box was about except for being a Montecristo cigar box presented from Fransico Flores in 1954. It still smells great from cedar and tobacco. The key is missing.

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Bottom of box

 

[rumblefish]

I have a few absinthe glasses, and other hardware in my collection.

Are you drinking Absinthe these days?

 

[RockBottom]

Are you drinking Absinthe these days?

I've read that the "new," now-legal stuff just isn't the same.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Are you drinking Absinthe these days?

Yes, I've been known to have a glass or two.

RockBottom I've read that the "new," now-legal stuff just isn't the same.

The short answer is: The new stuff is indeed absinthe....there have been a few others that compare to the old stuff but none of it comes from Eastern Europe, Germany, or the Czech Republic. Their stuff is undrinkable swill

There is a much longer answer, but it would belong in one of the absinthe threads.

 

[Warbaby]

Here are a couple of favorites from my barware collection:

Nifty Napier silver-plated liquor measure. When you squeeze the lever on the side, it lifts a plug in the bottom and the liquor runs smoothly out the bottom of the stem - no drips, no mess, wicked cool. The stepped sides are 1/2 oz. graduations - easy to see in dimly lit, smoky rooms.

Has the original box and instruction sheet.

This little Austrian bronze pig corkscrew was designed by Walter Bosse, one of the artists associated with the Wienerwerkstatte.

 

[Retro Rob]

Absinthe Makes the heart grow fonder !

 

[Lulu-in-Ny]

I was visiting my favorite Antique store the other day and this guy

was in the front window. I had no idea what he was, and the man in the place told me he was an old liquor decanter. I loved him at first sight, and here's the best part- when you pick him up, he plays "How Dry I Am". Awesome.

 

[Caroline]

Ok I'll be the first to do the "this isn't quite vintage but" post.

These are probably from the 1980's but I love the houndstooth so I picked it up at the antique mall.

I find the thicker glass withstands the antics of the modern drunkard much better than the finer stuff.

 

[texasgirl]

Here are some photos of our new bar. Does anyone have any idea of the era? I'm thinking either 50s or 60s, but I'd appreciate any input! It kinda has a rustic finish, looks like someone applied something darker on top? But we are doing a cowboy/texas/western kinda theme so it's perfect for us. Now we just gotta get some cool barware

 

[Vintage Betty]

That's a very cool 1930's bar with bakelite handles and celluloid inserts, veneer exterior. Great find!

Vintage Betty

 

[texasgirl]

Wow, you think it's that old? That's cool. The handles are actually wood. I should have taken a close-up.