Dead Men's Spex have a good day at Peachy Keen Vintage Fair

Hi there

We had a good day in Ipswich at Peachy Keen Vintage Fair, it was in the Manor Ballroom which we managed to find without getting lost; always a bonus. We sold quite a few pairs of our vintage specs and met some new customers and stall holders and caught up with some old friends. It always nice to go to shows and meet people. We will be out and about again later this year; watch this space for further details.

Peachy Keen Vintage Fair April 2016 - taken from their Facebook page 

Hope to see you soon

Mrs Deadman 

Dead Men's Spex at Peachy Keen Ipswich

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I hope you all had a good Easter.The Easter bunny brought lots of choccie to Dead Men's towers. Dead Men's Spex are off to Ipswich soon to a Peachy Keen Vintage Fair on Sunday 17th April from 11am to 4pm.

Our stall last year at Peachy Keen

We are looking forward to returning and have some great glasses to sell. This year it's at The Manor Ballroom, 4 St Margaret's Green Ipswich IP4 2BP which is a new venue. We've had some great new frames in recently which we will bring along to add to our usual varied selection.

Fabulous new styles

And some more...

Hope to see you soon

Mrs Deadman

Handmade and Vintage Extravaganza "The show with Specs Appeal"

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Well our weekend in Milton Keynes at the Handmade and Vintage Extravaganza was a big success! The organisers Jacqui and Andy made us very welcome; we were mentioned in their advertising for Milton Keynes shopping centre. The local newspaper- The Citizen - called it "The show with specs appeal." We enjoyed ourselves and sold a respectable amount of specs. If you'd like to see some more photos of the event including the advert, have a look at Jacqui Lewis's Facebook page.

Dead Man in position

Middleton Hall is a lovely venue; very spacious and airy and close to a wide range of coffee outlets! We met a whole lot of new people; customers and other stall holders, and there was the usual gamut of varied expressions from amused through to revolted after people read our sign! We were also delighted that quite a few of our regulars came to see us. Thanks to everyone who came to see and buy and special thanks to Jackie (yes another one!) who put us onto the fair.We also discovered The Pudding Parlour - who make the most delicious chocolate brownies ever! We are going back in November for another great event.

See you soon
Mrs Deadman

Dead Men's Spex ventures west to M.K. - Milton Keynes!

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Well it's mid February and we will soon be making our first public appearance of the year in two weeks' time on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th March 2016 at the MK Handmade and Vintage Weekend Extravaganza. We booked a stall in December and are looking forward to it. The whole event looks very busy and has a wide variety of stalls.

Stalls from above

Lots  of interesting items... Photos from the MK Handmade and Vintage website

We will be taking our usual range of great vintage frames and some of Dead Man's crafts such as his spexlaces ; necklaces made from original vintage frames, and some lovely old testing lenses which clean up beautifully and are great for crafts.

Spexlaces- spectacle necklaces- unglazed but can be glazed for a lady of a certain age...

We have a new display case; well it is actually lovingly reconditioned - this is Dead Man we are talking about! This case  holds a good selection of frames. Dead Man has commissioned his friend Steve Appleton a local artist to decorate it for him.

The image for inside the lid designed by Steve Appleton

We will also be giving out copies of Vintage Explorer Magazine, look out for our advert in there.

We hope to see you there; it will be Mothers' Day on the Sunday March 6th and a great place to take your mum. Mine will be having a great time - playing with Dead Man Junior all weekend! (Thanks Mum!)


Mrs Deadman

New Displays at Dead Men's Spex

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Here at Dead Men's Spex we have been making a few purchases, which is always fun; who doesn't like a bit of retail therapy? Dead Man bought two new display cabinets for our Shoffice -they fit in perfectly and now house a selection of Deadman's personal optical collection. These include pinz nez, real tortoiseshell frames and some beautiful dainty Chinese style cases. The move around means that we now have another drawer full of prepared frames ready to sell.

Some of Deadman's collection

We've booked another show for the spring; Peachy Keen Vintage Fair  in Ipswich, we attended one of their events last year and are returning. We are relieved to discover that they are at a new (and hopefully warmer) venue-last year was in a rather chilly old church!! This event is on Sunday 17th April 2016 from 11am to 4pm at The Manor Ballroom, 4 St Margaret's Green Ipswich IP4 2BP.

Hope to see you soon, Mrs Deadman

January 2016- Happy New Year from Dead Men's Spex

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Happy New Year! I hope 2015 was good for you. Dead man and I were looking back and the highlight of the year for Dead Men's Spex was definitely the "shoffice"- (a combination of a shop, shed and office!) which we had built in our back garden in the Spring. It is full of vintage spectacles and other optical curiosities. We held a successful open day in July and since then we have had a steady stream of customers. We've recently bought a vintage optician's sight test light box to add to our collection on display in the shoffice.

American 1940's optician's sight test box 

Looking forward into 2016 we have some dates for your diaries;

Definite bookings

Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th March 2016 MK Handmade and Vintage Weekend Extravaganza

To be arranged 

Dead Men's Spex open day. Likely to be May 2016

North Norfolk Railway September 2016

Look forward to seeing you in 2016 either,online, in our shoffice or at a show.

Mrs Deadman

Festive times with Dead Men's Spex

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We had a good time at Holt Hall and were in a great position; close to the very grand fireplace complete with real fire, lovely!

A real fire..

We were also close to the huge and very imposing Christmas tree and the tea rooms- they did a delicious line in mince pies and great sponge cakes too.

..and a huge Christmas tree

It was nice to meet some new faces and see some familiar ones. Deadman junior did a great Christmas card in the crafts area and enjoyed chatting to the other stall holders. He's following in his Dad's footsteps.. perhaps his next step will be reconditioning frames?!

The Eastern Daily Press photographer was on duty and on Thursday I opened the paper to see some familiar faces smiling sweetly at me.

EDP photos taken from Little Vintage Lover Fair's website 

This is our last show before Christmas and it was nice to get into the festive spirit. We've booked to go to Milton Keynes to the MK Handmade and Vintage Weekend Extravaganza  in March 2016. It is a very large event in a huge indoor area called Middleton Hall in front of John Lewis. We are excited about this as it's our first time at this show. I will be looking forward to returning to my old stomping ground, I watched many a classic 80's film at The Point cinema just across the way!!

I hope that you are enjoying the festive season.

Mrs Deadman