I had a friend once who wanted me to buy her all the kitschy Salt and Pepper shakers I could find. She was going to open a restaurant. The restaurant never worked out, and I stopped buying them, but since then I've always noticed them.
Thursday, a trip thrifting south through Rossland and Trail - only to discover that the Rossland and Castlegar Hospital Auxiliaries are closed on Thursday (damn!!!) - and, looking longingly through the window of the Rossland shop, there are treasures inside, I can smell them, see them, it's the best thrift shop for a hundred miles, but not today....
Anyways, in one of the ones that was open I discovered someones Salt and Pepper shaker collection. Dozens of them. In every shade of kitsch imaginable.
Collected below for your enjoyment:
Because nothing says "early divorce" like a pair of wedding themed salt-and-pepper shakers. Notice as well the football and pots-and pans themes in the lower edge of the photo.
Hobos and Roosters, Bowling pins and balls, a pair of relatively ordinary glass salt and pepper shakers.
Made in Japan, Jimmy Hendrix? WTF? I have no clue, but I wouldn't want to eat anything sprinkled with that hair. Probably more in the line of "Grandma likes figurines, let's get her this....", as in the abysmally decorative, not at all practical.
A two-part salt-and-pepper poodle, trying to sniff it's own butt...
What can you say? They suggest to me a more traditional Asian aesthetic...
And then there's this. I checked the bottoms to see if they were Hummels. They weren't. Porcelain German kids sitting - when you lift them you see the joke - on the outhouse. Charming. The bears in the back, unglazed bisque, have a bit of cool to them, they hang on the branches of the tree...
And, finally, chipmunk or other forest wildlife in hat/right front. And in the back a trio of skunks with REAL FUR tails and "amusing" sayings on the pedestal. I don't recall the sayings, they really weren't that amusing.
There were more, lots more. Count yourselves lucky.