Vintage Decor Find: Bread Box & Canister Set

For all my American readers, I hope your Labor Day weekend was great. I spent most of the time with my husband & mum, driving around the forests of northern Connecticut, cooking delicious food with ingredients from the farmers’ market, and reading for some of my college classes. Since my hubby had to work on Saturday, mum & I visited the Farmington Antiques Weekend together.

We browsed nearly all of the tents under the cloudless sky, but we did find two particular booths that had us lingering. The first was the Heritage Antique Maps tent, whose selection was dumbfounding. Decorating with old maps is so easy & always looks nifty. I hope to find a colorful map of Sweden to frame and hang in my living room.

Secondly, towards the end of our touring, we spotted a booth hosted by an elderly couple who were most friendly – the woman reminded me a lot of my grandma (my mum’s mum). My mum quickly became enamored an adorable hand-painted bread box with matching canister set. After browsing their entire tent in-depth for almost 20 minutes, my mum was determined to get the $30 bread box/canister set for my kitchen … she’s strange like that.

I’m still trying to decide what put in the metalware set (and where), but it is pretty swank. I noticed a company logo on the bottom of the canisters. Finally, I sat down today to see if I could track them down … and I did! Ironically, the Ransburg Collection was originally based in Indianapolis – just an hour away from my hometown.

A little more digging on their website turned up the pattern of my new set, called “Tropicana”. The bread box alone can be worth anywhere from $3.28-$127.50 ($0.99-$152.50 for the canister set, which seems to be missing one). Since some of the paint is faded and a bit banged up, I don’t expect it to be worth a lot. Collectible or not, anything that gives me another reason to buy bread is welcome in my kitchen.

[Image taken by Victoria Klein]