Announcement    Specialising in UNUSED vintage cards, vintage prints, vintage dolls and toys. heirloom plates and vintage and reclaimed jewellery.

Check out our own shop www.poshtottydesignz.com

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My name is Katie and I live in Surrey in the UK with my 3 children and fella.

I am a collector of vintage greetings cards, postcards, photographs, ephemera, ladies vintage clothing, jewellery and Japanese Pose Dolls. I am also a photographer.

Wooden Jewellery - These pieces are truly one of a kind and are inspired by the very best illustrations I have cleaned up from vintage greetings cards and postcards etc. The images are digitally printed and laser cut onto wood. I then transform these adorable pieces into collar clips, brooches, necklaces and earrings.

Heirloom Plates - I could never find a vintage plate with an image on it that I liked. I knew that with all my wonderful images dating back to Victorian times I could use a number of them and somehow apply these onto vintage plates. This was over 18 months ago...I now have a beautiful collection of decals I have made up from all my vintage greetings card and postcard images and now I seek out the sweetest of vintage plates so that I can apply my vintage decals to them.

Vintage Inspired Photographic cufflinks - These are high quality unisex cufflinks with my vintage images inside them.

Photographs - I am a collector of authentic original vintage photographs and specialise in photographs which have been used for newspaper reports from the 1920's - 1960's mainly. The best photographs I will scan and restore myself and add my own special touches to bring these photographs back to life. These prints are available for sale in my shop. I also sell prints of photographs I have taken myself, the majority of which feature dolls from my pose doll collection.

Vintage Cards - Over the years I have collected thousands of vintage greetings cards. These date mostly from the 1920's - 1950's and 95% of them are American. Many of these cards are sold in my shop and I often clean up scanned illustrations of very special ones, add my own personal touch and messages and sell these as jpegs through my shop. In order to avoid problems with the new digital laws I have made sure that none of my images are automatic downloads but infact images I have to personally email over in jpeg form myself. This will nearly always be done in less than 24 hours from when the order is placed.

Vintage Ladies Clothing - I love the idea of rescuing an item from days gone by and giving new life to it...who wants to look like everyone else!!! I sell vintage ladies clothing in my shop and also upcycled/refashioned vintage clothing which I have altered into something else.
Please ALWAYS double check the measurements given as sizes differ from country to country.

Japanese Pose Dolls - I am a super collector of vintage Japanese pose dolls and have owned at one time over 350 dolls. I have been featured in a doll book called 'Adventures in Cute Culture' by Pamela Klaffke along with some of my pose doll photographs. Occasionally I decide to sell a doll on and when I do these dolls can be found in my shop. For those of you that cannot afford one of these dolls then please check out my pose doll photographs taken from my own personal collection.

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