Not even two weeks ago the Queen passed away leaving us all very sad. She was a remarkable
woman and will be so missed. In today's episode we will do some vintage shopping near Manchester
to look for Queen Elizabeth II special pieces. Good morning! Good morning! I really hope
we can find something here because Jörg, do you remember, we bought this gorgeous tea
caddy. Yeah, the one we've got in our kitchen. Yes. It must be from the 40s. Yeah because
it shows Princess Elizabeth. Yes, Princess Elizabeth, her father, her mom and Margaret,
Princess Margaret. And yeah, we will be browsing as well, just in general because we usually
find something. Yeah? So, let's start. Let's go inside. We haven't been to this place for
quite a while and to be honest with you, it's actually our favourite spot for vintage shopping.
We can really recommend it.
They do have a lot of stamps and things but we're looking for plates or something.
Okay, this is a Spode tureen and it's 30 pounds. I think we might need to get this.
We found another tea caddy and this is from the Silver Jubilee. We're going to get this
one.
Look at this.
Let me have a look.
I love the two chairs. Not that we need them - no - but well, someone left the Costa mug.
How much are they? Each 145. Well, the upholstery is not too bad. It's great.
I love the paintings. Look at this one. That's wonderful. Jörg, can you check for me how
much that is? This one. How much is it?
You can't see it but - 300 pounds. 300 pounds but for the size it's not too bad. Beautiful!
Imagine having this in a library and also, I do love this one as well. Yeah. I like it.
Let me see how much it is. Okay, um, this is um 125. I love a hat box like this.
I just can't get in there. Um, Christy's what does it say? Christie's London. Yeah. Let
me see. So this is uh, 35 quid. Not too bad.
Not that I like the fabric itself but I just had a look. This is just 65 pounds which is
great, isn't it? I mean it's in a good condition. It's great.
Love this raffia chair as well and this is 32 pounds.
Look, I just found this book with a lot of pictures. The Queen Mother. And I think it
has wonderful pictures. Five pounds. And I just saw - look - there was a picture showing
Princess Elizabeth. There she is, aged 10. Yeah. And I think this is
actually a wonderful book, isn't it? Yeah.
I love this one as well. I think it shows pictures that you're not really familiar with.
No. I love it. And that's, 1946 - yes - the Queen was 20. Hmm. So we always get so many
questions about our Mason Cash bowls and I think that should be one. No. Jörg, can you
read it? I can't read it. Um, it's not Mason Cash. The Gripstand.
But it's basically well, it's the same style and this is 12 pounds so - I think it's okay
- yeah, that's really good.
This is where we're going to have tea in a second because they always have such a great
selection of cakes and wonderful tea.
Now look at our teapot. This is very special. Yes. I love it. So you have, this is lemon
drizzle, right? Lemon drizzle. Yeah. And this is gluten-free carrot cake.
We found some wonderful things at the Vintage Emporium which we will show you at home and
we're now at a place called Old Mill Antiques which is amazing. They have great Chesterfield
sofas. They even have cars. Although I I have to say I always find it very strange to buy
things from here or to get them out - yeah - without destroying them
Well, we do know that the BBC actually buys furniture here or hires them and we can see
why because they have so much.
Okay, we just came home and and thought we need to share what we actually bought. We
didn't buy too much we always, we we, I don't know, this is our approach, we only buy what
we absolutely love and we think we found some wonderful items to remember the beloved Queen.
I think prices right now are going up so you probably need to be a bit more careful. This
is what we bought. We fell in love with this well, another tea caddy. And this is from
the from the Queen's Silver Jubilee. And maybe we keep it here. We don't know yet. Maybe
Jörg will take it to the office. Then we found this gorgeous coronation mug showing
Queen Elizabeth's father George VI and we think, this is a little bit smaller so would
be wonderful for milk or small flowers. And we bought this gorgeous coronation mug. This
is actually George VI's father, correct? Yes, this is George V. Yeah. So that's Queen Elizabeth's
grandfather. Yes. And what we need to find now, we need to find a coronation mug showing
Queen Elizabeth but um well, they didn't have any. Then we found this beautiful Queen Mother
book and in fact it was a little bit hidden away and I think we were so lucky to actually
spot it. And it has such beautiful pictures in it. Pictures I haven't seen before I must
admit and well, also a lot of pictures showing Queen Elizabeth. So I need to show you. This
is the Queen Mother and this is Queen Elizabeth when she was born. Yeah. And
the royal family. Queen Elizabeth. So many beautiful pictures. This wonderful as well.
I must say this is one of my favourites and yeah, here is well. Or this picture here showing
the Queen and baby Prince Edward. And we think this is such an adorable book and yeah, we're
so lucky that we found it. Wonderful. And something else which was such a coincidence
because we were about to leave the shop and then I spotted this book which is about Colefax
and Fowler: The best in English interior decoration and I've been a Colefax and Fowler fan for
decades now. I just love their style and we actually have a lot of Colefax and Fowler
here at home. And the book is actually from I think 1989. And browsing the book I can
see that I absolutely adore the style. And it's still beautiful to this day which goes
to show, this is, I think how it should be. And we didn't get the Spode tureen in by the
way. I I fell in love with it the moment I saw it but then on closer inspection, we saw
that it had a lot of cracks so we thought no we give that a pass and just keep on looking.
Now as you can see we found some things to remember the Queen. Yes. And what we need
to get now is a coronation mug. Definitely. A coronation mug or maybe a wonderful plate
but I'm sure we will find something. But I just said Jörg that prices go up so we need
to be careful probably - yeah - because some dealers I think just overprice things. We
always I think the Vintage Emporium I think it was our fourth time there. Yeah but we
always it's always nice there. It's so so nice. It's our favourite place for vintage
shopping and the tea room is wonderful as well so we can highly recommend it. We hope
you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching and as always we'll see you again
very soon. Bye bye. Bye. Bye.