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For a treasure trove of neat objects, look no further than Goodwill

By Rain Noe - January 6, 2011

in Object Culture

This morning while I was looking for Muller Mobelfabrikation's website, I stumbled across an unrelated company called Muller & Schmidt, which makes neat cutlery like this:

I knew I'd seen the name Muller & Schmidt before, so after digging through some old bookmarks I found the original place I'd spotted them. Turns out the company's quite old, judging by this Muller & Schmidt vintage desk set of scissors, letter opener and sheath:

Those were spotted on ShopGoodwill.com, which is that charity organization's version of eBay. If you're inspired by vintage forms, as I've recently been, or just need some inspiration the site is a great way to browse lots of cool objects you've probably never seen before: Old-school ceramic CPU's, random wooden cases, vintage fire extinguishers, et cetera. Have at it!

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Just for the record, the company is called nowadays Pfeilring ("ring of arrows") located in Solingen/Germany, home of the Plagiarius Museum, which informs about fakes and copyrights in industrial design ( http://www.plagiarius.com/e_index.html ). Unfortunately the Pfeilring webpage is currently not available, due to maintance work: http://www.pfeilring.de/
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