Announcing M.Goldstein’s latest acquisition: The fitted interior of Bates gentlemen’s hatters, formerly at 21a Jermyn Street, St James. The reason we have been closed for two weeks is for the removing of this Victorian mahogany interior from the original location and then relocating it to our Hackney Road premises. Already it looks like it’s always been here.
LATE 21A TO MORE COMMODIOUS PREMISES
GAZE INTO THE FUTURE
Do you want to know what the future holds for you?…the mists are starting to clear…I can see Hackney Road…I can make out in the distance a tiny little shop…full of desirable, precious things…in this shop you will find your heart’s desires and the answers to many questions…
This must be the biggest Victorian crystal ball Mr Goldstein has ever seen. Standing on its original ebonised turned wooden base, a truly authentic fortune-telling collectible.
MONKEY MAGIC
Meet our new friend. He’s a Victorian preserved monkey dressed in a pink silk jacket. A much loved former show monkey. There was a fascination with monkeys, especially dressed as humans at this point in history (Monkeyana). This was post Darwin’s theory of evolution and it was a popular topic of debate as to our relationship to the primate. Monkey nuts!
BUGGER…LAST FEW LETTERS LEFT!
Yep…these are the last we have in stock…if you’re a B or a G you’re especially in luck, and if you’re in the market for a Bugger, what are you waiting for?!
COLD LAMPIN’
New item this week is an early 1940s branded “ANGLEPOISE” lamp. Generous size and in original condition this is a British design classic from the early 20th Century.
HOT VOODOO
The latest window at M.Goldstein is causing a stir on the Hackney Road. The combination of a 1950s top hat, a 1930s African tribal stool, an exotic plume mounted in the top half of a human skull that can only have been used for some kind of ceremonial purpose has the Eastend mesmerised.
ENGLISH COUNTRY CHAIRS
New in a fine example of late 18th Century English craftsmanship. The smaller short comb-back armchair of elm and beech is an unusual shape not often found. The taller chair is a more extreme example of the comb-back style.
Despite their considerable age there is a modernity to their appearance .
Pull up a chair….
“THUMBS UP!”
Available on our Attire page, new colllection of rare and precious jewelry including earrings, bracelets and necklaces…
NUMBER ONE TED
Nathaniel is obsessed with this man! In fact he wants to be this man. If you see him outside the old headquarters on the Blackfriars Road trying to channel the spirit of Dr Walford Bodie, don’t be at all surprised!
Dr Bodie was a clairvoyant, electrotherapist, pill-pusher, magician, showman and with the most ground breaking quiff (this was 1900), drape jacket and extreme spiv attire for his times.
He was a Ted before anyone had thought of Teds. The signed copy of The Bodie Book that Nathaniel sleeps with has been an inspiration….mental suggestion is now a selling technique at M.Goldstein!
MORE WET THAN DRY
Early 1960s novelty barometer modelled as a pair of beach huts. It hangs on the wall and predicts the weather, very accurately as it happens.
It is such a simple object, made from simple materials, but quirky and desirable. If the weather doeesn’t change soon, Mr Wet’s going to resign!
