Not so serious dinnerware (please add them here!)

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@pearlsngems, that teapot.....lol I love it!!!

@AGBF I have friends in Portland dragged me to that place was only the best type of torture) They've got some really gorgeous stuff.

We should have a summer GTG in Maine. Somewhere near Portland. MariaD is there already (although she may flee in the summer when the tourists come). So are some other special Pricescopers. Others of us seem to have a lot of friends in the area and the habit of going there a lot. My only problem is that in August I'll be in Michigan. I may be going to Maine in September, though. My 94 year-old aunt wanted to drive herself there to see a friend, but didn't want to go alone, so she asked if I'd like to accompany her and see my best friend.

 

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I see a few things on their website that I'd love to own, but realistically I have nowhere to put them. We have too much china as it is.

This is always my problem. I started getting rid of much of my glassware and china years ago. I have now gotten very serious and am giving away my favorite sets including my Spode Christmas Tree pattern china. That is going to my niece who just had a baby. I told her I wanted her children to grow up having that in the house all their lives. I had thought I would be leaving my china to my daughter, but she will never be able to manage a house with good china.

 

[MamaBee]

Joanne,

Thank you for your sweet reply. While you were posting, I was searching the Internet. I believe I found the pattern that my grandmother had. And for all I know, one of my cousins still has her china somewhere in a cardboard box! We are a frugal family, or, perhaps I should say that we we are a family of hoarders. Somehow I cannot believe that my grandmother's china would have been thrown out!

At any rate, I copied a photo of a plate that I believe was her pattern and e-mailed it to my brother and my first cousins (we are all close) to ask if they recognized it and, if they did not, if one of them could find the correct pattern on-line. I had remembered more of a rural idyll with field and horses and maybe a coachman. What I found was a hearth with a rifle and pots. I will post it here. It may, actually, not be my grandmother's pattern. It reminded me of hers, though. It just seems funny that I could have been looking at a hearth with a rifle and never realized it. I'll let you know if I was once my family gets back to me.

The pattern I think may be my grandmother's is below, It is Colonial Homestead Green by Royal. My grandfather, whom I barely knew (meeting him only when I was a baby), was a deer hunter.

Deb/AGBF

I’ve seen a very similiar pattern..in green...I hope I can find it again. I’ll post it if I see it! Did it have a hashtag design on the edges? I’ll try to find it!