Rebuilding Fall with Antiques on the Buffet

I confess, the buffet was a dumping ground for everything in October...medical info, files, mail, pumpkins, seeds, garden folders, it was all there and even with Halloween we didn't use. 

It still isn't 100%, It needs a bit of foliage and lights there...before I take full buffet photos, but it is coming together, so let's look at some of the usual suspects.

First the decor is pretty much where it landed. My antique mirror is wedged in and a permanent fixture at this point. It was in my grandmother's attic above an old bed...circa late 1920's-30's.

 I collect unusual (cheap) pumpkins, either artisan or thrift store. 

The little birds are from Spring, I still have to put them back into the china cabinets.

I haven't used a runner this year...I plan on serving dessert here for Thanksgiving, so the bare tiles (Fall themed birds) are fine. I will add some darker candles, or put sleeves on the white ones. I love the upholstery fabric pumpkin to the right.

The key piece on the right side is this tea pot, a find this year. It's very old---

and dread of all dreads...totally unmarked. The giveaway is the handle is Ebony (steam had raised the grain on one side) as is the finial. The English ones (Sheffield) are made with bakelite handles.

This teapot design has been made in many forms. Because it is unmarked it was either not produced for export (had to be marked for export with origin early 1900's and on) or it is older than say 1900.  I have no intention of selling it so it doesn't matter, I love the design and the lines and the elegant handle of Ebony wood.

Here's a shot all by itself...isn't she pretty with that collar! 

Finally, with online sleuthing I found the same one unmarked-labeled British Colony Bachelor teapot. (so somewhere in the middle east, or India. The craftsmanship is excellent and it is great condition. I'm guessing either India, Burma, or Malaysia which would have a supply of Ebony wood.

My little wagon is frankly full of....a crowd of bottle stoppers from my grandparent's trips to Europe. One is missing a hat which I found separate and saved, not knowing what it was.

They really do look like they have been 'on and off' the wagon...LOL.

This guy looks so unhappy. They are ALL from the 1940's 50's. Carved wood probably from Germany, there are two others similar, the double one has been id'd as Italian.

Some of the corks have disappeared, I can repair that. 

The donkey is my favorite he is animated with the tail as a lever that moves his head and his ears wiggle. He's an Anri design from Italy.

These two certainly look to be German or Swiss and I need to find a new cork for it.

These are harder to find, the first one is pretty common, the fisherman is sterling, so I think it may be Danish...the Duck I couldn't find, at least it is silverplate. They need a good polish, so on the list before Thanksgiving.

A little Oompah-pah music and you could have a party.

On the other side to balance out is another piece of silver.

This large water pitcher is Homan plate on Nickel Silver...I just like the style, the company operated from 1896-1904 before a name change. Stylistically they made some beautiful pieces. This is in need of polishing, which I may do for Christmas, but I like the weathered look for Thanksgiving.

A cutglass bowl ??? used to elevate the pumpkin...I can do better than that. A cork material pumpkin (thrift store) cool texture, my canning ring pumpkin and velvet and beading on the bowl. A sweet Czech creamer from the early 1920's. I have a pitcher for sale of the same pattern. 

Below is our doorstop which is a treasured family piece. It held the doors to the screened porch open at my grandparent's cottage in the 1950's, and the same at my parent's cottage until 1984, when he was packed away. I found him after 2012 in my parent's house when it was sold. 

He's a little dusty and worn, but original...and loved, at least after I give him a bath

'Buster' and I were close friends when I was a child,  and I used to carry him everywhere---he's heavy and has a collar and chain that attaches to the handmade house that sits on the door wedge. I freed him years ago from his chain.  He's a Hubley Boston Terrier from the early 1900's and highly collectible. 

But he doesn't eat much, so he's staying. Some things you have to be thankful for, and he's one of my favorites. 

Next is to really dress the buffet, since I have all this collected. 

It will probably change before you see it again. 

Grins, Sandi

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