A sweet little painted wooden trug with a turned carrying handle and a hand-painted floral panel of blue daisies and a red poppy at one end. 35cm tall, 33 x 22cm at the base.

Hand-painted florals were a popular way to brighten up everyday wooden kitchen and garden pieces, adding colour to something purely practical.

The paintwork has worn back to the layers beneath in several places - no chips or cracks to the wood itself, just genuine age and patina.

Vintage. Lovely in a farmhouse kitchen or cottagecore corner, filled with kindling, bulbs or magazines.

A child-sized wooden clothes horse with traditional cloth webbing hinges held with brass-coloured studs, folding flat for storage. It would suit a child's play laundry, a doll's bedroom, a shop display or a cottagecore corner, and is also a small, handy airer for a nursery.

Vintage, probably mid 20th century. Country of origin unknown.

Good vintage condition with minor wear. The frame is solid and the hinges are sound.

Wooden clothes horses with webbing hinges were a fixture of British homes long before tumble dryers.

Toy Story Bucket O Soldiers Thinkway Toys collector edition with 70 army men.

The original Toy Story Collection "Bucket O Soldiers" by Thinkway Toys, from the premium collector line made to look just like the bucket in the film.

Includes 70 green army men, one parachute and the Certificate of Authenticity, with the bucket, lid and handle all present. Early 2010s.

Excellent condition and complete.

In the first Toy Story, it's Sarge and the bucket of soldiers who go on a recon mission to spy on Andy's birthday presents - one of the best-loved scenes in the film.

A handsome faceted brass caddy with a domed hinged lid, turned finial and a little brass clasp to keep it closed. 15 x 14cm. There's a visible hand-soldered seam that speaks to traditional metalworking rather than mass production.

Boxes of this shape were made to keep tea, tobacco or trinkets safe from damp and light - and this one still does the job just as well on a shelf.

Good condition with minor wear and an attractive aged patina.

Vintage. A great find for a modern medieval or curiosity core look.

A neat little compact in solid sterling silver, its lid engine-turned with a stepped, geometric Art Deco panel. Fully hallmarked for Birmingham, 1921, with the maker's mark of Broadway & Co, a well-known Birmingham silversmith. Measures 8cm across. Opens to reveal the original mirror and powder puff, the puff printed "Christina," a nice period-style touch that's stayed with the compact all these years. General wear and tarnishing consistent with its age, along with a small split to the rim by the hinge.

Broadway & Co was founded around 1900 by William Benjamin Broadway in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, and remarkably the firm is reportedly still crafting silverware in the same part of the city today.

A little collection of hand-carved onyx marble pieces, sold together: a round trinket dish with soft banding in sage green, dusky pink and grey and a small notch to the rim (11cm across), a pyramid with rich brown and green figuring (about 6cm), a mottled brown and cream egg (about 6cm), and a tiny pale green-white stemmed egg cup or goblet (about 4cm).

Onyx marble gets its colour from thin mineral layers laid down over thousands of years, then sliced and polished to reveal the pattern beneath.

Good condition throughout, just minor wear.

Vintage. A nice curiosity core grouping for a shelf or desk.

A handmade wooden model of a traditional two-wheeled farm cart, full of character. The deep box body has iron strap fittings and pegs, a raised front board and a shallow front tray. It sits on two red-painted spoked wheels with black rims, and long shafts with small iron hooks underneath for harness.

This isn't a factory toy - it was made by someone who clearly knew how a real cart was put together. A great farmcore piece for a dresser, a deep windowsill or a farmhouse kitchen shelf.

Length: 61cm.

Age: vintage, era uncertain. Unmarked, so the maker and country of origin aren't known.

Condition: good for its age, with honest wear throughout. The body is darker and more worn than the shafts, which have a brighter reddish finish and may be a later replacement or refinish. There are gaps and small splits along the grain of the body boards, worn paint on the wheel rims, a small chip out of the black rim of one wheel, and paint loss on one hub showing bare wood. Two lengths of green plastic-coated wire have been twisted onto the shafts, probably a later addition.

Two-wheeled tip carts were the workhorse of British farms, carting muck, turnips and stone, and tipping their load right where it was needed.

Twelve boxed Tetley collectables from five different ranges - four of the original character figures, two 'Music Stars' figures, two miniature 'Houses', two animals from the Wildlife Collection and two garden ornament pieces. Each one is still sealed in its original packaging. Boxes range from roughly 8 x 5 x 5cm up to 13 x 5 x 7cm.

The Tetley Tea Folk first appeared on British TV in 1973, and Tetley ran a string of spin-off collectable ranges through the 1990s.

The boxes have a little shelf wear, but the pieces themselves are in good condition with no damage.

Vintage, 1990s, from the UK. A fun bundle for a Tetley collector or a nostalgic kitchen shelf.

A little cast iron money box in the shape of a grand Victorian bank building, with "CITY BANK" across the front, two storeys of arched windows, a decorative domed pediment on top and a flight of steps at the door.

It stands 10cm tall and 9cm wide, a nice small size for a shelf, desk or windowsill display. There's a coin slot in the roof, and the two halves are held together by a screw at the back.

The black paint is well worn, with silver-grey showing through on the edges, the lettering and the raised details. That wear shows off the moulding nicely, and there are a few tiny green specks near the steps. There's no maker's mark on the base, and the age isn't known for certain. The screw at the back is a cross-head type, which suggests a later casting in the style of the American cast iron "still banks" of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

"Still" banks are the ones with no moving parts, as opposed to mechanical banks. They were made in their thousands to get children saving, and many were modelled on the grand bank buildings of the day.

A fun set of 12 vintage books of matches, great for a collector or anyone after a bit of quirky vintage curiosity. Includes a matching set of four Tudor royals (Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots), a Tower of London Beefeater, an H.M.S. Belfast cover, two recipe-themed covers, a Jersey souvenir and a pretty butterfly design. Good vintage condition, with just light general wear consistent with age.

Collecting matchbook covers is its own proper hobby known as phillumeny, and the UK still has a dedicated society for it today.

A vintage Orbit zoom telescope in its original black box with gold lettering. It zooms from 9x to 30x magnification, and the front lens is 30mm across. The black tube is marked "Orbit 9-30x30 Zoom Coated Optics" and has a "Repeat Focus" ring, a zoom ring marked from 9x to 30x, and a tripod mounting block underneath.

It still has its oval "Passed" sticker from the Japan Telescopes Inspection Institute, which checked optical instruments made in Japan for export. It's a handy size for birdwatching, walks, boats or watching the view.

The box measures 32cm long by 5.5cm wide.

Condition: used vintage condition. The tube has light marks and fine scratches. The box is worn along the edges, the gold lettering is partly rubbed off, there is a crease across the lid and there are tide marks inside. Please see the photos.

A vintage wooden cigar box from Canada, marked "Amador Superior". The circular logo, with a "JT & Co" style monogram in the centre, is pressed into the dark-stained lid and stamped again in black inside the lid. "Canada" is stamped on the front in old-style lettering, and "MEDIUM" is stencilled on the base, most likely the size of cigars it once held.

The lid opens on two small brass hinges, and the inside is plain wood with a warm reddish tone and a good grain. It's a handy size for trinkets, jewellery, keys, stamps, cards or small tools, and would look good on a desk or shelf or in a tobacciana collection.

Measurements: 22cm x 12.5cm.

Condition: good used vintage condition, with general scuffs and marks from age. There's a pale scuff on the front, some white paint-like marks inside the lid below the stamp, and a few white specks on the base. The right-hand hinge is missing one screw from its lid plate, but the lid still opens and closes. There's a small nick on the inside front edge. Please see the photos, which are part of the description.

A good bunch of old hand tools, six in all, each with the wear and patina of a long working life. A nice start to a tool collection, a useful set for the workshop, or display pieces for a rustic farmcore shelf.

Included:

- Wooden-handled screwdriver with a flat oval handle, a hanging hole and a metal ferrule. It measures 20cm long.

- Awl with a brass barrel, a knurled collar and a long, fine steel point. A small spring shows through the window in the barrel.

- T-handle gimlet with a wooden crossbar and a spiral screw tip, for starting holes in wood.

- Short-bladed knife with a turned wooden handle and a brass ferrule.

- Awl with a turned wooden handle and a mushroom-shaped end.

- Pair of old steel pincers with curved jaws, and a ball end on one handle.

Condition: used and vintage, era uncertain, with no maker's marks visible. The handles show wear and marks from use. The pincers and some of the steel parts have surface rust, as shown in the photos, but no damage has been found. Please see the photos for scale: the screwdriver is 20cm and the other pieces are shown next to it.

The name "gimlet" comes from the Old French "guimbelet". It is also where the phrase "gimlet-eyed" comes from, meaning a sharp, piercing look.

A vintage 50ft tape measure by Chesterman of Sheffield, in its original tan leather case. The leather is stamped "Chesterman · Sheffield · England" with the maker's emblem on both sides, and the brass folding winder handle is stamped "50FT". The linen tape is marked in feet and inches, with a brass ring and leather tab at the end to stop it slipping back inside the case.

The case measures 11cm across.

Condition: good, with honest signs of use. The leather has scuffs, scratches and fine surface crazing, with a few small nicks and darker marks, mostly around the rim. The brass fittings have worn to a soft, dull patina. The linen tape has some age discolouration and marks, but the numbers are clear to read. A handsome piece for a collector of old tools, or to display on a shelf in a study, workshop or country kitchen.

A bit of history: James Chesterman set up in Sheffield in the early 1800s and patented one of the first spring-return measuring tapes in 1829. The firm merged with John Rabone & Sons in 1963 and became Rabone Chesterman, so a tape with the Chesterman name alone dates from before then.