It started with buying mostly inexpensive silver plated table items... Salt and pepper sets, tea trays that have made their way to the walls of my dining room. At a point I started reading up on the few sets of teacups and saucers that I have that were my granny's. It's opened up a whole world of history.
One set that my gran owned is cups and tennis plates (the have place for your cup and eats on one plate) made by James Kent in a chintz pattern called "Du Barry". Since I have been watching, I can see crazy prices being reached for this one pattern... Not sure why except that it seems that have become popular around the world too.
I have also built up a collection of Royal Albert in a pattern called "Rainbow". A lovely multicoloured ombré set - it has pastel pink, lilac, yellow, blue and turquoise. It's quite fun to scour online waiting for the right shape teacup to be listed and all I am waiting for now is the right pink set to come onto the market to complete my collection of 12 trios (teacup, saucer and cake plate).
I could blog just about all the things I have my eye on, but this evening three little beauties from a less popular make arrived three months after I bought them. There is a cake plate, sweetie dish and a pretty jam dish with the spoon that rests in the detachable handle.
They are made by Midwinter and the range is called Stylecraft, and they date to the 60's. They were pretty inexpensive, all three were bought for less than R200. There are some lovely patterns made by the same company designed by Jessie Tait that just scream Midcentury modern. Other pretty ranges designed by Hugh Casson were called Cannes and Riviera.
It makes me happy to make place and a new home for pieces that were loved long ago.
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