Vintage Gucci, a £5 rug and a salt duck: your best secondhand finds
We love secondhand shopping here on the Filter – whether it’s Second Hand September or not. You can unearth one-off, affordable pieces, and feel good about not adding overconsumption to your list of things to worry about. So to inspire us, we asked you for your best-ever preloved finds, whether that’s furniture or fashion or more (and added a few of our own, too). “An Ercol daybed I bought on eBay for £50, in need of some TLC,” reader Fiona told us. “Stripped, re-webbed and with a new cushion, it is now a thing of beauty and very comfortable.” “The best thing I ever bought secondhand is a mahogany dining table 30 years ago: I can’t remember how much I paid, but it was a fraction of the cost of a new one. It’s Edwardian and very solid. Soon after, we found four Victorian balloon-back chairs that nearly matched two we already had. The chairs were professionally re-covered so cost more than the table in the end. They’re all now heirlooms,” Anthea told us. Worth …
