The torrential downpour that’s been hitting California for the last week or so FINALLY let up today. It was actually good timing, as it made us stay in and work on other parts of the A La Modern store instead of going out thrifting. However, that resulted in a bit of cabin fever with the result that we just HAD to get out into the thrift store was the rain stopped. (Incidentally, I have no idea how people in rainier climates, such as Seattle, can deal with it!)

Vintage loot at thrift stores seems to have dried up a bit as we’ve come to the end of the year. However, we still found a few nice things destined for our shops. Starting in the front left, we came across another two Taylor & Ng “Vintage French ” mugs. These mugs might not look like much to the average shopper, but there’s a pretty large crowd of collectors who really like them. We know that some of the mugs have been reproduced, but these are definitely the older ones. We believe these mugs are part of a “cat group” – the two we found are “Le Chat Aile”, which means “Winged Cat” and “Chat Et Souris”, which means “Cat and Mouse”.

Right next to the Taylor & Ng mugs, is another piece of Hornsea Pottery. You might recall our earlier amazing Hornsea haul. This time, we only found the one creamer. The pattern is quite nice and is known as “Tapestry”.

The little orange-brown piece next to the Hornsea piece appears to be a creamer, and we thought for sure it was from Heath Ceramics at first. However, it is unmarked on the bottom and rather rough which seems unusual for a Heath item. It also has an unfinished “seam” at the bottom – I think Heath is pretty meticulous about trimming this off. The glaze looks remarkably similar to the pumpkin colored Heath ramekins we found earlier. However, this creamer is orange inside and out as opposed to only on the inside.

The vinegar and cruet set in the back is likely a late 70s production from Japan. It’s quite interesting because the upper half is a basketweave patterened ceramic, while the bottom half is actually hardwood.

Finally, we came across some more Rosenthal cups – this time all with saucers. We immediately thought that these might be Loewy designs – and the cups do look similar to a shape that he’s supposed to have designed called “Form 2000“. However, we’re wondering why ours do not have the Raymond Loewy signature stamp on the bottom. They only have the Rosenthal mark on the bottom. The Form 2000 cups that we’ve seen appear to be taller, though we’re not sure if ours weren’t simply a different size cup in the same line. We did check Replacements, and the cup does appear to be listed. The plain white color we have is “Classic Modern White”, but the Form 2000 shape was also sold in various different patterns.

OK, we (probably) won’t have another thrifting post until after the actual day – so hope you have a great Christmas! We’ll have that end-of-year wrapup for A La Modern some time next week…