Vintage view: Kitchen collectables

Kya deLongchamps fancies some collecting for the kitchen that’s still within its use-by date.

I was poking around enjoying a viewing some year’s ago at a local auction house, when a middleaged dealer I knew, slipped eel-like behind me and down the dusty alley between the lots.

She was gripping something in her diamond encrusted talons, held low in the folds of a long camel hair coat.