Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Collections-What to do with them?

When I was a little girl, living on 4th Street in Nevada, IA,, my Grandma Scott gave me my very first tea cup with Violets painted on it and thus started a collection that had one time had over 100 tea cup sets.  The tea cup and saucers that are pictured below were ones I collected in the late 1980's and 1990's.  I have too much stuff.  I have had an off site storage unit for the past 10 years, about $6000 worth of "I just can't give this stuff up".  These cups are going, either via Craigslist or at our garage sale in 2 weeks or to St. Vincent's or Good Will.  One way or another, these memories are going to belong to someone else soon.  Oh, don't think that I am giving up ALL my precious cups!  Grandma Scott's gift is still here and a curio cabinet full of my most favorite ones of all.

Not one of my favorites, not even sure why I bought it.  Maybe it was a gift?

One of my favorites.  It has a lovely Japanese design and the handle is a dragonfly.  Made of a very light translucent china. The more I look at this one, the more I want to keep it.  It won't take up too much space...

I really like the lacy look of the saucer for this one.

A musical teacup, plays Memories.  Again a gift.

Looks like a french design.

The design looks kind of like fish scales!

Violet is the flower for February so I had several versions.

Very small, very light.

Also a small, light demitasse.

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