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Today is another $10 thriftshop challenge day here at French Ethereal and as you probably already know I love heading out and seeing what’s out there at the thrift stores!
This week I found this lovely cut glass bowl with beautiful deep carvings and a lovely serrated and scalloped edge for a mere $4.00. I think I may have shared this story before but it’s worth sharing again.
My great-grandmother Julia Foley collected lots of cut-glass back in the early 1900’s ~ during the time when Americans were taxed on how many things they owned {or on certain things they owned, I’m not entirely sure on this point).
Julia ended up having to sell all but four of her cut-glass pieces to pay the taxes. She kept one for each of her children to have later on. A bigger bowl similar to this one was handed down to my grandmother Helen, who handed it down to my mother Ginny sometime in the late1960’s or early 1970’s.
It always held blown and dyed eggs during Easter and pinecones or colorful glass ornaments at Christmas each year. It was just part of my memories of home as far back as I can remember.
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| Love the swirls and little star cuts in this glass bowl! |
Mom then handed it down to me back during one of my visits to their last home in Connecticut in the mid-1990’s sometime. I have loved it ever since and I think both of them will look lovely this next Christmas holding colorful vintage ornaments,
don’t you?
😉
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| Trying out different plates and bowls while at Twice As Nice thriftstore. |
The second piece I found was really the first found ~ this lovely silverplate chafing dish made by Raimond Silver Manufacturing Company The company began manufacturing silverplate wares in the early 1960’s and later was “acquired by W. and S. Blackington, Co.” in 1966.
The Raimond hallmark is plainly seen on this leg. This pretty chafing dish is in mint condition with no scratches and little tarnishing on it. I believe it may have a lacquer coating on it to protect the finish.
This silver dish cost only $6.00 and I thought the two pieces were good bargains! I plan to use the two together and separately. My first thought was to use this silver chafing dish in our new master bathroom to hold towels rolled up between the two lavatory bowls…
Until then… these two thriftshop finds will grace our Prairie Home and decorate our window quite nicely!
Joining a merry band of goodies looking beautiful
for Valentine’s…
Day or night.
🙂
What fun thriftshop finds have come home
with you lately?
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Sweet Inspiration ~ The Boondock’s Blog
Happy weekend,