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Posted by BEI Design on June 24, 2009, 6:33 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> BEI Design wrote:
> That's a really pretty pattern, Beverly. I could live
> with that, easily.
I think it's pretty enough pattern, I just don't "do" those
colors. My DSIL LOVES it. She married my brother after my
mother died, so she feels it gives her more of connection to
the family history to have it and I'm delighted. I have, in
addition to service for 12 in *my* wedding china:
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/L__MON.htm ,
service for 8 in my mother-in-law's *first* wedding china
(don't recollect the pattern at the moment made by
Meita(sp?)
PLUS service for 12 in her *second* wedding china:
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/L__RUT.htm
AND pieces of my DH's grandmother's Havilland.
I usually alternate my Lenox and the Rutledge
ever-other-year for Christmas Eve dinner, and mix in a few
pieces of the Havilland.
I also *had* service for 8 in her (first marriage) 25th
anniversary sterling
http://search.replacements.com/texis/search?query=Alvin%20Prince%20Eugene,
in addition 12 place settings of MY 25th anniversary
sterling (I did not think I wanted sterling when we were
first married;
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/KISREPOUS.htm
but I unloaded the Prince Eugene on my daughter for *her*
25th anniversary.
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> My mother's pattern is
> http://www.replacements.com/webquote/N__MYS177.htm which
Oh, that's very pretty! When I married, I chose the very
plain Lenox, but I have grown to like patterned china as
well. I love using the Rutledge, I think it will go to my
younger DD eventually, she loves it too. She didn't choose
"good" china, although older DD did, hers is
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/M__BEL.htm?mkd=070820090004460587
which is no longer being made.
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> is hard to find, unnamed, though there are several
> patterns essentially the same except for the color of the
> border. Pre-war stuff, the china was shipped to New York
> where it was hand decorated and fired
> again. My pattern is not painted, it's stenciled. What
> boring work that must have been!!! The pattern is more
> formal, so I like your family pattern better!
My DH was an only child, his step siblings had no interest
in any of the silver or china and none of them had children.
I have only the two girls and two grandchildren. *All* of
this stuff is funneling down to them.... ;-}
Beverly
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Posted by Pogonip on June 24, 2009, 7:32 pm
BEI Design wrote:
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> I think it's pretty enough pattern, I just don't "do" those
> colors. My DSIL LOVES it. She married my brother after my
> mother died, so she feels it gives her more of connection to
> the family history to have it and I'm delighted. I have, in
> addition to service for 12 in *my* wedding china:
> http://www.replacements.com/webquote/L__MON.htm ,
>
> service for 8 in my mother-in-law's *first* wedding china
> (don't recollect the pattern at the moment made by
> Meita(sp?)
>
> PLUS service for 12 in her *second* wedding china:
> http://www.replacements.com/webquote/L__RUT.htm
>
> AND pieces of my DH's grandmother's Havilland.
>
> I usually alternate my Lenox and the Rutledge
> ever-other-year for Christmas Eve dinner, and mix in a few
> pieces of the Havilland.
>
The two Lenox patterns go well together, too -- you could seat an army.
But only if someone else were doing all the work, I hope. Very nice,
very classic patterns. Tres elegante.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by BEI Design on June 25, 2009, 7:26 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> I was just thinking about that -- and why we have so
> little from previous generations. They used it up, wore
> it out, passed it on to someone who could use it up or
> wear it out.
That's very true. Also true is that my grandparents
generation on both sides were farm/dairy folks. I very much
doubt they were avid collectors of fragile precious stuff.
The teacup and saucer of my paternal grandmother's was
incredibly thin, I wonder if it was ever actually used.
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> They didn't have the choices, the
> disposable income, or even the availability that we enjoy
> today. I know my grandmother did beautiful handwork, and
> we used to have some of it. One of the most precious, a
> crocheted tablecloth, has disappeared. We don't know
> where it went.
How unutterably sad. My mother crocheted a large table
cloth, off white in fine cotton. I think/hope my sister has
it.
Beverly
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Posted by Pogonip on June 25, 2009, 8:10 pm
BEI Design wrote:
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> Pogonip wrote:
>> They didn't have the choices, the
>> disposable income, or even the availability that we enjoy
>> today. I know my grandmother did beautiful handwork, and
>> we used to have some of it. One of the most precious, a
>> crocheted tablecloth, has disappeared. We don't know
>> where it went.
>
> How unutterably sad. My mother crocheted a large table
> cloth, off white in fine cotton. I think/hope my sister has
> it.
>
> Beverly
>
>
I thought my aunt or my cousin had it, but after my aunt died and my
cousin and I got together (and buried the hatchet) neither of us knew
where the tablecloth had gone. There's other stuff missing from my
mother's and my aunt's houses. We know that some of the neighbors got
some things, but we're not sure about these particular items. Real
vultures in that neighborhood - their houses were side-by-side because
they bought them together in a new subdivision, now 28 years ago.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by Juno B on June 24, 2009, 8:30 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> BEI Design wrote:
>> My childhood home burned in 1948. After the insurance settled
>> everything, my folk did some enlarging and remodeling of the house,
>> and with what was left, my mother bought service for 12 of Noritake
>> "Brenda". http://www.replacements.com/webquote/N__BRE.htm
>> After Mom died, Dad wanted my sister and me to share her things. I
>> used it a few times for Autumn meals but it wasn't really my color, so
>> I finally gave it to my brother and his second wife. They love it. I
>> kept one teacup and saucer for my collection.
>> Just incidentally, when I searched for her pattern, I came up with a
>> different china replacement site: http://www.pastpresent.net/ I
>> didn't do any price comparisons, but at least it's an alternative to
>> Replacements and eBay.
>> Beverly
>
> That's a really pretty pattern, Beverly. I could live with that,
> easily. My mother's pattern is
> http://www.replacements.com/webquote/N__MYS177.htm which is hard to
> find, unnamed, though there are several patterns essentially the same
> except for the color of the border. Pre-war stuff, the china was
> shipped to New York where it was hand decorated and fired again. My
> pattern is not painted, it's stenciled. What boring work that must have
> been!!! The pattern is more formal, so I like your family pattern better!
They are all so pretty. This was my mother's
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/MEIAMB.htm
My china is much simpler. I have Rosenthal Maria
http://www.nextag.com/rosenthal-maria/stores-html
It;s plain white and the edge has embossed roses.
When I looked it up I found that 1 dinner plate is listed on this site
for what I paid for a 5 piece place setting.
Times have sure changed.
Juno
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> That's a really pretty pattern, Beverly. I could live
> with that, easily.