Hi everyone. Really in a rush today, so will just post up a few photos of our recent finds. One of the coolest discoveries was this nice cache of Couroc of Monterey trays.

From the 1950s to 1990s, Couroc produced a ton of these black plastic (phenolic resin) items with inlaid details made of wood, metal, shell and other natural items. While not terribly valuable, they can be really fun to collect them because at least where we live they’re readily available at thrifts and antique stores. We were happy to find some of the cat trays, as well as the “Fish market” one that uses wood. I feel that Couroc is currently undervalued – the trays were never sold very cheaply when new, and they were mostly inlaid by hand as far as we can tell. There’s a ton of it out there, though.

While the Couroc cache rocked, this Bellaire vase was a huge disappointment. Well, it was more of a bummer – because it turned out to have a huge crack in it. I was super excited to find this signed Marc Bellaire piece at the thrift, because I knew that his work can be quite valuable. I grabbed it so quickly that I didn’t realize it had damage until later. Not sure if we will keep this one or sell it.

Bellaire worked with Sascha Brastoff creating some of the most spectacular mid-century modern ceramics in California. I’m not sure which line this is – have seen it called “Hawaiian” in some places, and “Polynesian” in others.

These Dorothy Thorpe creamers were a nice pickup, though of course I would’ve rather found more of the roly-poly tumblers. We can’t seem to keep those things in our Etsy shop longer than a few days. I actually would’ve passed on these, but they had the real silver and were in pretty good shape. A lot of times there’s too much wear to justify grabbing them.

One of my favorite thrift finds this week was this little Waechtersbach honey pot with little bee and honeycomb decorations. I think this one might be from the 80s – I actually thought it might have been newer, but is has a “W. Germany” mark on bottom. A side note: I don’t know about you, but I have a heck of a time remembering how to spell “waechtersbach”!

Last up, another nice Denby score, in what I think is the “Sherwood” line designed in the early 70s. I actually didn’t know they were Denby, but had a strong feeling they were either English, or from Japan. Unusual that every single piece is unmarked – but something about the coffee pot spout reminded me of Denby.

OK, hope you enjoyed this roundup!

This post is linked up to ATG’s Thrift Share Monday and HLA’s Flea Market Finds.

Did you find something cool at a thrift or flea market lately?
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