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I Visited Yarragon Vintage Marketplace, and found me lost in Nostalgia-land!

That is a remarkably interesting title, but that is what exactly I felt when I visited the local vintage flea market.

Recently, I gained found of visiting many op shops and look for old but interesting items that would be great to ornate my new home. My sense of style has grown to admire more vintage items, both in fashion and home decorations, and combining pieces from the past and present.

Since we can’t travel interstate, visiting the local attractions available around regional areas of VIC State is a smart idea. And for those many of you thinks that Goggle Map is the most useless app of 2020 – well, not for me coz even at this time of the pandemic, Google map gives us many cool travel ideas, that we can do locally.

One of these places is the Gippsland’s known flea vintage market called Yarragon Vintage Marketplace. A few minutes’ drive from where I currently reside, this place is very hard not to miss, especially for those who have a good eye on vintage treasures.

I don’t know how long have spent inside this huge open warehouse of thousands of vintage items of all kinds, but it felt like going inside the Narnia-closet, and wander around Nostalgia-land.

Yarragon Vintage Marketplace in Yarragon, VIC Australia

Using my self-confessed reliable Samsung S20, I took the liberty to capture these ultra-vintage treasures, while admiring their classic beauty, while simultaneously calculating its appraisal value in the current market (and for the next 10 years!).

You can find anything from anywhere – vintage fur jackets made from rabbits and wild fox, fine pieces of jewelry and watches, books and manuscripts, empty vintage bottles of wine and perfume, old-style embroidered linen, vintage toys including the present collection, record players, etc., and other sorts of memorabilia.

Name it, and they have it.

Including your great Uncle’s favorite old knickers!

Jewelry

Here’s what I learned personally from my ultra-rich friends – not all the time they are wearing expensive jewelry, and the majority of their ownerships are stored in the most private vault. What you see them wearing on many occasions are replicas – just in case something happened, they won’t feel bad losing another replica piece.

And the thought of “fake it ‘till you make it” isn’t that bad. On the contrary, you can use it to your advantage. I’m just lucky to have these ultra-rich friends, and I admit that I can’t afford to have those original pieces, however, wearing vintage costume pieces like those in many vintage shops will give a different sophisticated appeal to your overall style.

Vintage Fashion

If you love good quality pieces of clothing, then maybe you can consider investing in good vintage fashion items. We found several genuine fur coats and leather bags, shoes, and other fashion accessories.

Although I’m into (faux) fur items, these fur jackets are so luxurious and are made of real animal fur. I realized that real animal fur wasn’t that truly comfortable, so I will stick to fake, synthetic-made furs and I wouldn’t feel guilty having them in my closet.

Decanters, glass, and crystal wares

Are decanters worth anything?

Apparently, it is.

The use of decanters can be traced up to about 2,500 years back. Back then, wines were served in earthen vessels since the glass vessels were yet to be made. In the 17th century, it would have been rude to serve the wine from the bottle. Decanters became more popular during this period. By the 18th century, decanting had become a tradition in England. This tradition then spread throughout Europe.

A decanter is valuable to red wine drinkers since it aerates the wine. Aeration, as a result of decanting, makes the wine more pleasurable to drink. Decanting the wine adds value to it but not in monetary terms in this sense.

Most Expensive Decanters
The most expensive decanters are crystal decanters. If car lovers dream of owning a Rolls Royce, Bugatti, Lamborghini or Aston, wine lovers dream of Waterford, St. Louis, Baccarat, and Orrefors.
These very expensive whiskey decanters range from $25,000 to $3.5M. It’s kind of unbelievable how people are willing to pay for such decanters.

Here are a few of these very expensive decanters.
The first on the list is the Highland Park 50 Year Old decanted designed by Maeve Gillies, inspired by the movement of the wind and the sea. It sells at $25,000 although only a few bottles are still for sale. Aside from that, the empty bottle reveals the famous rose window of the St. Magnus Cathedral in Orkney, Scotland.

Another is the creation of Baccarat crystal made for the centenary of Kilian Hennessey. The decanter is housed in a liqueur chest and comes with 4 whiskey glasses. It sells at US$190,000 at Schiphol Airport Retail in Amsterdam.

The gem of them all is the Tequila Ley .925 Diamond Sterling decanter and is known as the world’s most expensive decanter. It is sold at US$3.5 million for a decanter with a capacity of fewer than 1.4 liters. This decanter is made with hand-blown glass covered in silver and pure platinum and inlaid with 4,000 cut diamonds.

Collecting glass and crystal wares are becoming popular these days. In fact, I’m also an avid collector and I used them for special occasions to ornate my room for the aesthetic project. Vintage stores just like in Yarragon got heaps of glassware and crystals collection, dependents on its design. And if you got an eye for the good stuff, you could stumble for a great rare find that has an actual value of thousands of dollars.

Homewares, and Chinaware

Fine china collections often begin by inheriting a grandmother, or great-grandmother’s, set of special occasion dishes. I’m not lucky enough to have that type of set being passed down to mine, which makes a visit to many vintage shops is a great advantage. You can find an antique or vintage pattern that suits your own taste and style.

No matter how you get started, this type of collecting is more than a hobby. Putting together a set of antique or vintage dinnerware can be a fun way to outfit your kitchen or decorate your dining area.

Vintage Toys

You can find lots of vintage Garfield stuffs, the early Star Wars toys, Matchbox cars, LEGOs, Jim Beams cars, Toy Story, Sesame Streets, and even a group of Smurfs on their shelves. Apparently, toy collecting is one of those great hobbies, that also costs thousands of dollars if you score one of those rare finds. They always got a very impressive appeal and adding more to that is when they are stored in their original box.

Vintage telephones

The invention of the telephone is one of the greatest man’s genius work that happened in human civilization, and no wonder that still many people collect this piece of archives from our history.

Some of the pieces are worth a fortune!

Also having a vintage telephone in your homes gives a very chic aesthetic that gives great nostalgia. You can have this displayed in your lounge and become your ice breaker with your guests.

Vintage flat iron

Sad irons also called flat irons or smoothing irons, are shaped pieces of metal that are flat and polished on one side and have a handle attached to the other, created for the purpose of de-wrinkling fabric. “Sad” is an Old English word for “solid,” and the term “sad iron” is often used to distinguish the largest and heaviest of flat irons, usually 5 to 9 pounds.

The forebears to modern electric irons, these flat irons are often triangular or come to a point to make it easier to iron around buttons. The heft of a sad iron would help it hold heat, as well as to press the fabric flat. To protect fabric and surfaces from singeing, sad irons often came with metal trivets to rest on, and these are often-beautiful, intricate, and collectible examples of metalwork that were made in a myriad of designs.

Vintage vinyl records, and cassette tapes

Your old soul will be celebrating browsing the oldies but goodies music and movies our loving grandparents.

More bric-à-brac

We used to have a similar typewriter in a case, and when I was a kid I thought the case looks like a briefcase which makes my Dad look so cool!

Apparently, this double steamer isn’t RARE. My mother still has this at home, and can also be found in many local shops in the Philippines, and other Asian countries.