Gifts
The wine gets drunk. The gift card gets spent.
The thing on their shelf is still there in thirty years — and they still know exactly who gave it to them.
Why a vintage gift lands differently
Nothing here was made for gifting. That's the point.
There is one
Not one style. One. Whatever you send, nobody else can send the same thing — not to them, not to anyone.
It already lasted
A brass bowl from 1940 has proven what it can survive. It outlived the person who bought it. It will outlive this occasion too.
It has a before
Someone chose it once and kept it. You're not the first person to think it was worth having, and you won't be the last.
By what you want to spend
Most of what we have sits under a hundred dollars. It doesn't look like it.
Under $50Small brass, painted porcelain, a bell, a bowl. Costs less than dinner, stays in the house for forty years.Shop → 
$50 to $125Pitchers, glassware, sporting prints, a framed watercolor if you catch one.Shop → 
$125 and upOriginal paintings and antique pottery. The gift that gets hung on a wall and stays there.Shop →
By who it's for
If you know one true thing about them, that's enough to start.
For the dog peopleStaffordshire spaniels, a cast iron terrier, a needlepoint pillow somebody's grandmother worked on.Shop → 
Hunt countryFox, horse, hound. Racing and hunt prints, hunt-scene china, a cast-iron horse head with its hitching ring.Shop → 
For the house on the waterSail plans, a lobster dish, a Nantucket basket, a pond yacht in a frame.Shop → 
For the one who hostsBring this instead of the wine. Game bird pilsners, a silver trivet, an ironstone pitcher with somebody else's monogram.Shop → 
The StudyA tennis trophy goblet, racing prints, a silver desk box, a leather suitcase. For a father, a brother, or anyone who keeps a room like this.Shop → 
The Pat McCarthy paintingsDogs, cats and rabbits, painted by a living artist on paper, porcelain and gilt Florentine boards. Our most-asked-about pieces, and the ones that go fastest.Shop →
Before you order
The things you actually need to know when you're buying for someone else.
When it will get there
We pack and ship within 3–5 business days. Once it's on its way, most U.S. orders arrive in 3–7 business days. To have it under a tree on December 25, order by December 7.
What shipping costs
Nothing. Shipping is free on every U.S. order.
Sending it straight to them
Enter their address at checkout and it goes directly. No price on the packing slip, ever.
A note in the box
Leave your message in the note box in your cart and we write it out by hand on a card. However long you want it.
How it's packed
Paper, ribbon, the whole thing — it arrives ready to hand over. Everything here is old, so everything here is packed like it's old.
If you've missed the date
A gift card lands in their inbox the moment you buy it, any hour of any day. It's the one thing here that doesn't need a truck.
If it's not right
Fourteen days from delivery to send it back in the condition it left, return shipping on you. Anything ordered between November 1 and December 24 can go back through January 15, because gifts get opened late. If it arrives damaged, send us a photo within 48 hours and that one's ours: a full refund, shipping included. Pieces marked final sale can't come back.
Still deciding?
Taste is the hard part. If you can't read theirs, let them read it themselves.
A Tallmadge Ave gift card
They pick the one piece they'd have chosen anyway — and they get the part we can't send you: the deciding. It arrives by email the second you buy it, which makes it the only thing on this page that can't be late.
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