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Auction Sunday: Dishes

Our local auction house's monthly auction is tomorrow. One of the featured items is a nice set of Franciscan Desert Rose pattern dishes:

I like seeing the various additional pieces available.

My grandmother had these dishes when I was growing up, and my mother had the Franciscan Apple pattern.

She bought them in the early 1950s, and they were our company dishes, but not the best, best ones. My sister has them now, as well as the best dishes, Essex Maroon by Lenox.

This is an elegant design, but I prefer it with blue, and even then, if you gave me the money to buy a set of fine china, there are other patterns I would prefer. Not that I am in the market for fine china.

posted on May 19, 2012 7:58 PM ()

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Ed is an expert on china and Delft and Meisen. He still wanders into antique stores and buys pieces at low cost because the sellers don't know what they have. Actually he knows a great deal about most antiques and correctly identifies most items on the Antiques Road Show before the expert has a chance to do it. Now if only he could cook.

comment by tealstar on May 25, 2012 5:57 PM ()

I like blue dishes, and especially the Delft-ware.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:08 PM ()

That is such a well known pattern. It is still sold, I believe.

comment by boots586 on May 21, 2012 1:48 PM ()

Yes, it's still available. I like seeing all the accessory pieces. It was hard for my grandma to come up with water glasses to go with those pink dishes, but she found tumblers with a pink design (1950s).

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:10 PM ()

Those are great, some people do not appreciated fine China and dishes.
As for us.We are partial to dishes made in Italy and loved their design.
But those are great.Good find.

comment by fredo on May 20, 2012 8:38 AM ()

That auction lot (the pink ones at the top) probably sold for a bargain price. I'm sure whomever took them home was thrilled to get them.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:11 PM ()

I like to admire fine china, and I enjoyed using it all over the years, but I had to sell my huge collection when I moved in 2004 and downsized. Now I have a simple selection of glass dinnerware â€” so versatile! Simplicity rules now.

comment by marta on May 20, 2012 8:19 AM ()

I have a scrapbook where I keep pictures cut out of catalogs of things I like, and pictures of things I used to have but are now gone (the ones I liked). It's as good to me as having the things themselves, but they're not taking up storage room, so it's a relief they are gone.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:13 PM ()

Wow! And with the tumblers, too!

comment by jondude on May 20, 2012 6:50 AM ()

Those dishes chip really easily, and the tumblers were especially vulnerable. And cups. My mother always bought extra cups.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:15 PM ()

I love china. I divided my set of Lenox eternity and gave it to the children. I also divided my sterling and gave it to them. I then found a
whole set of the old Charlotte pattern by wedgewood at the Salvation Army and
have yet to use it. Dishes and crystal are my weakness.

comment by elderjane on May 20, 2012 5:32 AM ()

Me too! I could be a serious dish collector, but fight the urge. My Auntie Lorna, who isn't really an aunt, more of an aunt-in-law, succumbs to temptation and buys any set of dishes that catches her fancy. She's got them all over the parlor, which she never uses because she can't get around in there. She is the one who plants petunias in old crisper drawers from refrigerators.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:17 PM ()

I have dishes like these from my mother. Not that you care.

comment by solitaire on May 20, 2012 5:07 AM ()

My best dishes cam from a grocery store. You know the ones.....buy $50.00 worth of groceries and you get a dinner plate for $2.00.

comment by nittineedles on May 19, 2012 8:38 PM ()

That was always so much fun to buy things that way. It harks back to the days when we didn't have easy credit and instant gratification, housewives had to budget and buy things over time.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:19 PM ()

Give me plain solid white or red!

comment by greatmartin on May 19, 2012 8:36 PM ()

I don't have any square plates - stopped buying dishes before that trend came along. Can't say I'm sorry.

reply by troutbend on June 2, 2012 8:20 PM ()

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