White Ironstone Finds For A Christmas Table

I pulled out my Quaker Lace table cloth to layer under this vintage 1950's Christmas table cloth.

 

I realized that they both needed pressing...DARN! So I put a large, folded several times, heavy  cloth down on the table and pressed each one on the table. My table is not the greatest so I didn't have a lot of worries I'd do it damage. I'm not saying this is how it should be done but, it worked really well.
 

The newest finds are the platter it's just a simple squarish-oval. A Mid Century coffee pot marked USA. Some references say that it's restaurant ware...it's home ware now!!! And those pretty doily's.

 Just realized you can't even see the top of the platter!!! But here's a shot of the back. Loved that it's named Snowhite~~~

A pretty ironstone bowl with pink roses and a blue ribbon. I just filled it with glittered pine cones and glass ornaments.

The Salvation Army had about eight of these  petite sauce boats. I limited myself to just one. At fifty cents each I probably should of got two!

I also just found the silver wire and capiz shell cross while out junking. Capiz shell is so hard to resist...it whispers to me..."take me home". The shell actually comes from the Windowpane Oyster, which is edible, but valued more for their pearls and translucence shells

Picked up several boxes of those glittery snowflakes last year, so they will be popping up here and there in my decorations. I'm liking them on the table with the aged music sheets.

This little Angel is from Germany and I found him several years ago.  I think it's the most sweetest of figurines. 

 Every time I look at him (he stays out all year in my bookcase) with his hand to his heart at the wonder of the child before him, I always have a rush of sweet emotion.

Got this huge candle several years ago while out junking. It had several layers of a cellophane type wrapping, so I didn't know that it was broken in half and it was literally hanging by a wick! So I had to get creative in order to salvage it. The vintage page was the folder for the music sheets and is of a heavy weight paper so I thought that it would work well. I aged it some more and just modge podged it on.

Added a couple of different widths of lace and tied on the big button with aged rayon seam binding. 

 

 Used two sizes of small dishes layered with a doily and set the candle on top and propped up a snowflake. And here's my Fitz and Floyd Christmas Geese shakers from my previous post.

These pears were such a great find. They're ceramic with metal stems and I believe they were rather high end. I found them while out junking...they were offered as a set, you got the six pears and a glass bowl for one price. Of course it took about a half bottle of Goo Gone to get all of the tape residue off of them. They had secured the "set" extremely well!

Just layered a doily under the pears to add pattern and interest. Two of the plates are French Haviland and two are White Mist, Staffordshire England

Since it's mostly just me, when I have a meal, I move things over and pop down a place mat . I can have my table and enjoy it too!

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Been busy closing the shop and dealing with all those details, but, I did have time to stop at the Salvation Army for a quick look...Just what I need huh, more stuff?

These ironstone pitchers were made in the 1950's for the American Dairy Industry. I've been told that the dairy wives had a chance to win one. Not quite sure how, I think it was an essay contest. These were also given to the local Dairy Princesses...are there still Dairy Princess's???

 Nope you're not seeing double!  I found the smaller quart size on the right a few months ago. The larger one holding the dried hydrangeas holds a half gallon.
Lately I've been drawn to ironstone pieces with wording and graphics that are permanently in the glaze. Gotten a few now...but that's another post;~)

Just buying really useful things...

Two tablecloths, both round, the black one is for Halloween. And who could resist that gorgeous Wilton Court tablecloth?

I don't have a round table inside, but this will layer very nicely over a rectangular cloth...and I do have a round table in the back yard. Fun table dressing for eating in or dining alfresco !!!

I just can't resist petit point pillows...and this one has pink roses!

A Canadian made oil lamp. The glass cruet is a soft green/blue color and the piece that holds the wick is green quartz. Like to have these on hand for power outages and this one is very cool.

Double wine box that's going to get re-invented...someday!

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Would You Buy These?

 A white ironstone pitcher & basin

 

Doesn't it look quite at home here on the dry sink...

While out junking at the Salvation Army the other day I found these two unmatched pieces of ironstone pottery, a set, sort of, a wash basin and pitcher.  When I first saw it I couldn't believe my eyes. I haven't seen one of these in a thrift store or garage, yard or estate sales in an extremely long time. And here was a very large and beautiful white ironstone set. Just what I've been collecting of late.

But when I made my way over to the set, I seen why it was still sitting there waiting for someone to come along and take it home.  The pitcher had a nasty chip in the spout area and the basin had a crack about 3 inch's down from the top edge (but still very intact and stable).

My first thought was, you should only buy great pieces...then I thought no, you should only invest in great pieces.  You can buy cracked and chipped pieces as long as your not paying to much and at $5.25 (with discount $4.72) this set was going home with me. You could arrange a towel over the crack, fill the pitcher with flowers, set up above eye level...and viola! You've not broken the bank with your not so pristine, but still decorative items.

The pitcher is probably quite a bit older, late 1800's to early 1900's and  has a pretty black ink pottery mark of a lion wearing a crown an upright oval with a crown topper, then a unicorn. The word WARRANTED above and Princess below. This mark was used by American pottery companies to look like English pottery companies to confuse unknowing buyers, and it was perfectly legal. WARRANTED in England meant the pottery supplied the "Royal House" for at least 3 to 5 years and is a desirable company to purchase from.

The pottery mark as far as I could research could be for the East Trenton Pottery Company or the Empire pottery Company. Both were in Trenton, New Jersey, along with about 150 more potteries and a lot of them used the lion and unicorn in some fashion. Many of the potters had immigrated from England, another reason as to why American marks were distinctively English looking.

The basin has a potters mark from D E McNicol of Clarksburg, West Virginia. This company produced toilet ware and hotel ware, from 1914 until 1954.

Isn't the crazing wonderful?

The edge of the bowl is quite simple, which makes it easier to pair with the pitcher, which is more decorative.

 

Absolutely love the ornate handle...

 

 

I also found this chair for $7.50...it was just so cute I couldn't resist. 

Don't know if I'm going to leave as is or paint it. 

Chairs are my greatest weakness!!! 

I'll end the post with a few festive pictures...

 

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