Sunday Stills ~ Vintage

The challenge this week was to photograph something that is vintage, to us. I am not much of a collector of things that I would consider vintage, but I do have a couple that are very special to me.


When I turned fifteen, my mother gave me the ring her parents gave her when she had turned fifteen. They had it made for her from a tie pin my grandfather was awarded. While it's not big and fancy, it is very ornate with cut out sections, as jewelry was in the 40's in Spain. My grandfather died on my sixteenth birthday. I haven't been able to pass it on, yet.

I believe the brass weights below are from 30's. They bring back fond memories of helping weigh bulk items on a counter top scale in my grandparents corner store. It was one of the few things I could do to help while visiting them for the summer in Spain, after all I was only twelve. They eventually sold the store (it's a neighborhood restaurant now). I asked if I could have a couple of the smaller weights as a keepsake, they thought it was an odd request. While weighing bulk items with weights is an era gone by, the weights themselves haven't changed a bit.