It was a fight to get up early on a Saturday, but we decided to go on a mini garage sale run. It’s pretty tough to find vintage modern objects at garage sales on a realiable basis. Most people have endless amounts of mass produced crap from the 80s and 90s instead of mass produced goodies from the 50s-70s.

The past couple of weekend garage sale expeditions had been fairly fruitless, but we did find a few goodies waiting for us today. We’d been looking for this Arabia of Finland cow pitcher designed by Kaj Franck for quite awhile now. We’re actually surprised it took so long to come across one. They come in 2 or 3 different sizes and several different colors including green, blue, yellow and brown.

The Matthew Adams walrus shakers were a nice pickup. Adams (he’s not the Adams who is Ansel Adams’ grandson) was an employee of Sascha Brastoff who went on to produce his own ceramics in a similar style. This line seems very similar in theme to Brastoff’s “Alaska” line, and features gold leaf hand decorated designs.

We also grabbed this quirky cocktail shaker made by the German metalwork company WMF (Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik), but haven’t been able to find out anything about it yet. It looks to be about from the late 60s, though it’s difficult to tell. We also aren’t sure what animal this is supposed to be – a penguin? Or a duck? In any case, this one will probably show up in our Etsy shop soon.