3 posts tagged “jadite”
After the bug invasion forced us to purge the pantry, I thought I was done with that kind of overhaul for a while. However, the belated Christmas gift I received yesterday promises to require a thorough reorganization of the kitchen cupboards:
My mom picked them out for me, and they are the perfect shade of green (almost identical in hue to my precious jadite pieces). The set includes a whopping 100 pieces, so I figure I will no longer run out of clean plates before the dishwasher is full enough to run. Plus, I'm now fully prepared to host a dinner party for 12—I feel so very grown-up.
Not everything arrived intact, though: One cup was in pieces, and six other dishes were chipped. Fortunately, the company told me that they will replace the damaged pieces free of charge, within 7 to 10 business days. Hooray for great customer service!
Our old dishes, which used to belong to Mr. G's grandmother, are still serviceable, if industrially plain. I can't decide whether I should try to sell them, or just take them to Goodwill and be done with it. Suggestions?
I turned 31 on Monday. As part of the celebration, I did what I look forward to doing every Labor Day weekend: I attended the local Depression glass show and sale. What made this year's show extra special is that my mom was in town, so I got to browse leisurely with an interested party (rather than dragging a bored Mr. Guycita from booth to booth).
Over the course of the two-day show, Mom and I did some serious damage. She spotted several pieces that she'd been longing for in the Miss America pattern, and I actually doubled my fledgling jadite collection.
On the first day of the show, I bought a sweet sugar and creamer set. The second day, I couldn't leave without a few jadite egg cups, which I knew would be the perfect way to display my ñandú (Uruguayan ostrich) eggshells. Look at how large a ñandú egg is compared to a chicken egg!
Happily, my jadite birthday weekend continued into Monday, when I received a fantastic price guide from Mr. Guycita's grandma. The book is chock-full of gorgeous pictures sure to give me many hours of jadite eye candy. It should also help me to make sure that I'm not overpaying for any future purchases (although, fortunately, it seems that I've done fine on my own so far).
Now I just need to convince Mr. Guycita that all this jadite is essential to my happiness. He was fine with my initial $8 yard sale bargain, but he's less than thrilled with the glass show prices I paid over the weekend ...
For the past decade, I've been hunting down pieces to add to my mom's collection of pink Anchor Hocking Miss America dishes. Every time I see pink Depression glass in an antiques store, I rush over to see if it's in the Miss America pattern (it rarely is). When I do come across the right pattern in the right color, it's always a huge thrill. At my neighborhood garage sale in May, however, it was another color that grabbed my attention: I spotted a gorgeous set of green nested mixing bowls. I didn't know they were vintage glass—I just knew that I had to have those green bowls. I paid $8 (a steep price for a garage sale purchase, I thought!) and happily brought them home. When my parents came to visit last week, I showed off the bowls to my mom. Later, while we were browsing a local antiques shop, she spotted a batter bowl that was the same color as my mixing bowls. It cost five times what I paid for my mixing bowl set—and it hit me that my lovely bowls were probably antiques! When I got home, I did some online research, and—sure enough—it turns out that I am the proud owner of some Anchor Hocking Fire King jadite pieces. The 7.5-inch batter bowl I puchased at the antiques store was priced fairly, but apparently the 5-, 6-, and 7-inch mixing bowls I got at the garage sale were a steal, especially since the smallest one turns out to be rare! According to the marks on the bottom, all four pieces date to the late 1940s. I can't wait to add more pieces to my new collection!
