Thrift Store Report

[moon_custafer]

Took some books to the Goodwill this morning - Fridays everything is half off, so I ended up getting two dresses, a pair of brown suede slingback pumps, a bell-jar-like thingy, and a china cup and saucer for a total of eleven dollars. I looked up the cup when I got home - it's Royal Albert, in the pattern "Honeysuckle" and the cup shape "Avon," and was manufactured some time between 1927 and 1935. It's not wildly valuable, but at three dollars, I got a bargain.

Comments

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

My well-meaning but wildly off-the-mark grandmother, is gradually supplying us with an entire set of Royal Albert in Country Roses. These will eventually be mime, she says.
I always say that I'll have the best place-settings in the asylum when the dolls and I have tea parties.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Don (who sometimes comments here) was given his grandmother's china by his sister on condition he take it away so it would stop cluttering the garage. He had us over for tea.

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an episode of Lovejoy.

[fragrantwoods.livejournal.com]

I just googled that pattern and I can see how it caught your eye. That is some kinda pretty.
Pumps sound nice, too.

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

This would have to be tea and a three-course meal lol

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

If this were an episode of Lovejoy, the cup would be worth a great deal more and there would be someone unlikeable with an almost-complete matching set and some sort of sting would have to be pulled.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

The only frustrating thing is the previous owner put what looks like red nail polish over the maker's mark - I thought it was grease-pencil at first. Must be the equivalent of the occasional collector who keeps their 1940s comics in mint condition - except they carefully dog-ear or punch a hole in the corner of each cover.....