Clocks, Lamps & Vintage Gadgets
Some people collect stamps; others collect tiny typewriters and vintage cameras, and frankly they are having more fun. Limoges clock, lamp and vintage gadget boxes are made for the antique-shop wanderer, the film buff, the writer and the friend whose living room looks like a cozy 1920s parlor. Each one is hand-painted in France, hinged and arrives gift-boxed. It is a conversation starter that never needs batteries, and it beats another desk organizer by a country mile.
The workshop is full of good stuff. Typewriters come in black, green and antique styles, ready for the next great American novel or at least a strongly worded letter. Vintage cameras in black and yellow, a movie camera and a director's camera are on hand for the film crowd. Old-fashioned telephones ring in red, brown and rose-painted porcelain, and one red phone just called to say I love you. Table lamps glow under blue, black and burgundy shades, while an alarm clock and an old wooden radio round out the parlor.
Gadget collectors love the details: the keys on a typewriter, the dial on a phone, the tiny lens on a camera. Start with one piece, and soon you have a vintage office in miniature. Display them on a bookshelf with old photographs, on a writing desk beside a real fountain pen or in a shadow box styled like an antique shop. A typewriter is a perfect gift for a newly published author or a retiring journalist, and a camera suits the family photographer. Consider it a little time machine for the shelf.
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