Haviland Fruit Bowls...This Week's Find

When I was packing up my parents' things in preparation for selling the house, I did so in haste. I was careful, don’t get me wrong, but I tried not to dwell on individual items, just pack them up as quickly and carefully as I could. I am still unboxing things, and just the other day unboxed these beautiful fruit dishes (if that is indeed what they are), that you saw in this post. I was with my mother when she bought these, having no idea what she would ever do with them, just bought them because she liked them, but didn’t realize that they were Haviland.

What treasures! Like my mother, I have no idea what I’m going to do with them, but I suspect I will use them for cold salads or soups. They are a bit more dainty and delicate than what I’m used to, but I find, these days, then you can pretty much mix everything with everything.

Aren’t these lovely?

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Coffee/Tea Pot Napkin Rings...This Week's Find

For someone who only used napkin rings at Christmas time (at least that I can recall), my mother sure had a lot of them. Today’s find is a recent unveiling of these darling teapot/coffee pot-shaped napkin rings. In looking at these, and setting them up to photograph, I wonder how many of you have napkin rings that you don’t use. I think we should all make a vow to remedy that.

I really like this cute set. Initially, I looked at them as tea pots, and something that I would use with tea, but the rather rustic finishing (the barn red speckled in white) made me think of them in another way, namely as something that you would use at a formal campsite. (Are there formal campsites? My guess is that today, there are!)

At any rate, I plan to use them in the fall. I particularly like the way they look with these black-checkered napkins. I need to go through my more primitive dinnerware, and come up with something suitable for a camp out in the woods. I can almost smell that coffee brewing over the crackling campfire.

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Great Lovers Wine Glasses...This Week's Find

Prepare yourself to be wowed. I mean it. This week I brought home my mother’s collection of “Great Lovers” wine glasses. At least that’s what we called them. Officially they are Maurus Gallo Pewter Toasting Cups featuring Beauty and the Beast, Romeo and Juliet, and a Renaissance Wedding couple. Each pair locks hands when put together. I don’t remember where they were purchased despite the fact that I was with her at the time, but it was some time during the 1980s. They are made from pewter and spun silver and each holds 4 ounces of liquid. They certainly draw gasps from guests when they see how they go together.

My mother would use these for very special dinners, or ones that she would serve around Valentine’s Day. Naturally, the female guest would get the female lover cup, the male guest, the male lover cup; they would be put together between place settings.

I honestly don’t know how many times I will use these, but I need to find a place to put at least one pair of these on display. Truly magnificent!

This Week's Find...Royal Albert Teapot

This week’s find is actually in two parts. First is this adorable Royal Albert Old Country Roses Earthenware “Hutch” One-Cup Teapot containing, you guessed it, a Royal Albert “Old Country Roses” tea set. Second, is this tiny (working!) mantle clock. Both of these were on the hutch in my parent’s breakfast room. I cleaned them up and brought them home. Truth be told, I don’t know where I’m going to go with all of the cute things I’ve been cleaning up and bringing home, but I’m going to enjoy them while I can.

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Bunny Tea Set - This Week's Find!

I have little by way of Easter tableware and decorations with the exception of some wonderful bunny dinner plates that I have used here. I was debating upon whether or not to bother with an Easter table considering I won’t be doing much by way of celebrating this year, when I stumbled upon this lovely Fitz & Floyd bunny tea set (from 1989) while clearing out the hutch in the breakfast room at my parents' house. 

My mother was like me in that she found it very difficult to resist the offerings of Fitz & Floyd. “Oh, that Fitz! Oh, that Floyd! They know what we like!” we used to say as we carried our finds up to the cash register.

She always hosted Easter brunch, but I don’t recall her ever serving tea, or even using the sugar and creamer when she served coffee.

Now that it's in my home, I guarantee it will be put to good use, more than likely with the pink cups that I found a week or so ago.

I love the detail in this set. The spout on the teapot is actually a bunny. Isn’t it adorable? After giving everything a good washing, my only decision now is to decide what type of tea to brew.

Come back next week to see what other treasures I have uncovered.

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