NEW OLD Bits in the Kitchen Pre-Fall

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I'm a bit behind...lol, I'm the "Old Bits" making this post, but thought I would share what I have been up to in my corner cabinet for the summer.

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These two Dutch figures, are actually Occupied Japan...a great snag at a thrift store.  The pitcher was a find, and is just marked Bohemia, the castle transfer is so clear and dreamy. The initial mark is printed into the rim and illegible, all that is visible is 'Bohemia' in a floral frame, probably the pattern.

No luck finding the pattern, the marks, or country it's made in. Probably made pre-1887 when 'made in or country' was required on ceramics and porcelain by countries involved in international trade. This was to stem the tide of 'take offs' of English ceramics. 

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The unique and pretty plate was a gift from a friend. It's so intricate, the pattern is all pressed in the hand-made,  and then hand-painted and glazed...it's really amazing close up! I really love it, and it's perfect in this cabinet.

The salt jar is gorgeous and was a gift from my son, and also from a thrift store. It's quite elaborate, has the wonderful windmill. 'Salz' is Salt in lots of languages: German, Danish, Dutch...probably more.

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I haven't found the totes with all of my decor items I switch out in the cabinet for the seasons. It is still fruit-basket upset here, so I filled in with old bits here and there. 

The cast iron bulldog is German and a Hubley and was hidden in one of my enameled coffeepots. 

The Droste cocoa tin I've had for awhile, was an antique shop find, but only $6.00. The old glass is part of a juice set with a carafe and 4 glasses, Japan, still in a tote somewhere.

The plate I featured in this POST. It's English and  Bedford/Ridgways, desirable and old.

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The Sadler teapot I've shown before and is from the 30-40's. I love the summer flower design and it works well with my Dutch/Danish salt and pepper couple. 

This pitcher is marked FRF and UWG crown mark, 

again probably late 19th Century. It was my mom's and was her money stash container.

I'm hoping some of my 'Fall totes' show up soon so I can switch everything out.

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This vintage Swedish enamel kettle is by Berrgren and isn't particularly expensive now...but I love the designs. Their oldest pieces are very heavy and will wear forever. I have a few pieces and usually use them all the time.

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'This Tea canister or caddy as the Brits call them, is porcelain, very old  with a windmill and three masted schooner on it. It's CZECH and probably late 19th century. The porcelain gnomes are marked Korea and are within the last 30 years. I haven't done a search, but were in a thrift store for .99 each. (a steal!)

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My French enameled spatterware covered coffeepot is perfect on the island with faux sunflowers.  This one maybe from the 19th century from reference photos. 

My McCoy Dutch shoe planter, is perfect for this time of year. The antique jar of marbles was bought just like this...all of the marbles are super old, a friend found those for me and a perfect summertime activity.

My crocks in my kitchen are all vintage/antique, and are sourced from family and thrift stores. I use my crocks for napkins, my extra epi-pen and medical stuff, ie  sanitizer, allergy pills, etc. One's full of the grand's markers, another with all the pens/pencils/scissors stuff not taking up space in a junk drawer. Everything is  visible and much handier.

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Our Fall Home 2019 pt.1

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This is definitely an OLDS post with lots of vintage and antique items highlighted, so come on in!

Fall is so slow arriving here in Chicagoland. Last week's temperatures were in the upper 80's with several days of rain. The inner-city remains warm, while the suburbs' temperatures drop a bit lower at night. Everything is still in full bloom, and there is barely a hint of color in the trees. With these brightest sunshine days--and the dark dull gray days of rain, it seems to be nothing inbetween.

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We are totally skipping Halloween this year, but I will add a few pumpkins here and there soon. The OLD quilt is a hand stitched and quilted, I found at a Thrift store for $6. It's perfect to brighten up the porch, our cushions are really faded. This porch is a southern exposure and really takes a bleaching.

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Even on a cloudy day---it's bright, I took this today before the rain. I'll save our yard for my Midwest Gardening series. So, Welcome to my almost Fall Porch. I have to explain--we are doing limited decorating this Fall, as I'm having a knee-replacement the end of October, so all decor will have to be put away by hubby after Thanksgiving.

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We have burgundy doors and brown trim on a gold home...perfect for Fall! I did a REDO this wreath last year---and I still love the subdued foliage with the sunflowers!

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Our huge front window was scheduled to be replaced, (the last one) but the greenhouse REDO, soaked up all the funds along with a few other projects in the yard.

My mom's maple rocker(1950's), and the 100+ year OLD spinning wheel are great reminders of the warmth of Fall and Home.

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My Grampa's OLD handpainted wooden duck decoys are happily quacking on the window table.

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This Canvas back decoy is original paint from the mid 1930's or older. An unmarked 1910-1920's? OLD antique pottery saucer holds some potpourri and some bitty birds. I still use candles, (always soy) this time of year.

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Two OLD mallard female wood decoys chatter on the other side. The faux greenery was a find at the local thrift shop---A big bundle for $4.00, much better than $6-12 a stem at the local craft stores. The pitcher I found in my stashes from my old shop---probably 2006-8 or so. I do like the narrower throat on this one for taller branches.

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Our Vintage Fall Kitchen

There is only a hint of Fall with our normal cast of characters on the island---this I'm sure will change soon. I really need a pumpkin or two...LOL. The working side of the kitchen---is just that, we cook and eat 95% of our meals here. 

Seldom do we eat out, or have take-out.

The contemporary vase holds some faux flowers surrounded by broken marigold stems from the yard. They are huge this year and very prolific. The crocks are Old and New

The trivet is old, but unmarked (30-40's)

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The OLD antique fish poacher holds some dried gourds and faux pumpkins...red leaves bring my colors in. I will reprint the sign, when I find it on my comp again---on beige. 

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I love the rusty reds of Fall, and the Old thrift store plaid tablecloth covers the bright white cabinet making our dining area warm and inviting. A bowl of apples and pears is surrounded by my husband's great-grandmother's oak table and four chairs.(definitely antique-1880s) We have added two contemporary oak chairs to match the blinds. 

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Christmas pig is busy snuffling in the Antique coffee grinder, my grandmother's OLD coffee pot holds some sunflowers.

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This OLD metal lunch basket was a gift for Christmas last year. It has a green top--so it will be out through the Winter filled with goodies. Here is a favorite pumpkin cookbook, some dried gourds and faux vegetables. Our live squash have not ripened yet, and we have no pumpkins this year, it was a tough Spring. 

The OLD mini kitty mold I found last year. I'm going to make some chocolate treats in it for Halloween, before my surgery.

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I'll fill the OLD Capitol Dairy Co, Chicago (1920's-30's) milk bottle with Fall candy for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Since it is still hot--I'll wait a bit. The clay lump---is my son's 6 year old's detailed log cabin.(It's already 40 years OLD) and perfect for a fall setting. The antique (1920's) scale is always somewhere in the kitchen.

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For the first time in three years, I pulled most of my blue and white antiques out of the cabinet. I added my OLD English and Japan cottage pieces, a pumpkin plate and a really OLD Turkey platter. The antique OLD brass grater on the wall is hallmarked for the early 1800's and was from the family.

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This OLD brown transfer ware platter is quite large and perfect, though there seems to be a slight crack under the glaze. I'll post more about this in a Finds Post.

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This week I found this OLD 1930-40's Sadler Tea Pot from England...perfect for our home. I added a few flowers to the small OLD blue pitcher.

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I love the Turkey platter and it almost fits in the cabinet. A canning jar ring pumpkin Redo adds a bit of homey shine. 

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A pitcher of dried flowers fills in this shelf with a few gourds. My other transfer ware plates are all antiques at this point. 

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Later Afternoon light can become quite moody, casting rich shadows.

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I took this today, a rainy day---and turned on the lights...I confess we had a miserable late Spring and we never removed the pine garland woven with lights. We used them often to brighten the house during all the RAIN we had in our miserable Spring.

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Some sparse NEW Dollar Tree garlands woven through the lights and pine are perfect until the Christmas season. I took this photo at noon and this makes the darkened room so cheery!

I have a bit more decorating to do in the living room. And that will be it. Finally pumpkins are showing up at the grocery stores. We hope to go to a pumpkin farm this weekend...IF it doesn't rain.

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Old Goodies, waiting for further Fall decorating. 

Have you found some great pumpkins, and what do you put out every year for the Fall season!

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Pottery Bowl Mark Mystery! Stoke on Trent!

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Have you ever found something OLD, or been gifted an unusual piece--and just had to find where it came from?

Being a potter---I knew this was bowl was OLD---and definitely a piece worth searching for.

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I had received delicious homemade candy in this lovely antique bowl 

from a good friend for my birthday.

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The bowl had deep cobalt blue transfers on an embossed molded body---with a very sketchy and blurred mark. Blurring often happens when the cobalt lifts or floats into the glaze during firing.

This is part of the 'flow-blue" thing.

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This mark was very hard to read. Now, my bowl had become a needle in a haystack. 

This photo is not fuzzy, as you can see from the clear and precise glaze crackles, 

but the mark itself was totally illegible.

 Best I could figure was Uffer H----Y and  all that was really clear was a faint England in the lower center, as well as the coronet crown, 

and semi-porcelain- (a euphemism for a high fire ironstone faking porcelain). At least I knew where to start looking--England.

 I persevered and tried to track a similar mark by the crown in English pottery. First via pinterest, and then this useful marks site, I use so often. OldandSold.com
But, I found no marks that were similar enough. 

So, I googled a half-dozen combination descriptions, circle-coronet-pottery-mark, crown-circle-semi-porcelain- England, etc. until I found a crown that looked similar.

This one had the similar crown, on this mark the top was missing a bit, but I thought it was close. The same-crown styles are often associated with a specific town or region, and then the Stoke on Trent. UH_OH! Stoke on Trent had been a center for pottery industry in England, forever.

Below, all those bottle shaped buildings are kilns or Stokes.

Bottle kilns

 Now, I knew my haystack had just become bigger.  Stoke on Trent (England) was the heart of ceramic manufacturing in England for centuries, and this area alone had over 1500 different potteries through the years. I needed to narrow this more. I knew the clay in this piece wasn't porcelain, it was too heavy. Porcelain is only heavy if very thick. I searched Stoke on Trent ironstone, potteries, marks on search and found this from Hanley, England and that similar crown.

I looked at more Stoke on Trent potteries---one of the best known is above. I tried adding Hanley to my searches and then these popped up

And further down the page, the crown and.....

Here it was MY MARK!----very clear---Uffer H----Y was UPPER HANLEY

Once I had this----I could search for Upper Hanley Pottery-one of the best basic resources for Stokes on Trent Potteries is http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/1018.htm. This site has basic information, marks, photos, history, and just lots of Stoke On Trent info. I had used the site before.

This Upper Hanley company was only in business for a few years. Like many potteries, they were bought and sold, absorbed into larger companies or simply closed. 

Here is the basic information I found.

Earthenware manufacturer at the Upper Hanley Works, the High Street, Hanley (from c.1895 - 1902) and then at Brownfield's Works, Cobridge (c.1902 - 1910) from  http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/1018.htm. 

Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city in England. 

It made up of six distinct towns: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton - collectively known as "THE POTTERIES". (http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters)

With all this wonderful information, I now could now find pottery by 

Upper Hanley pottery by its name.

Searching Pinterest (Upper Hanley) showed dozens of pieces---one exactly like mine---which led me to this same exact bowl on Etsy, with a much clearer mark!

courtesy of Etsy (not my site)

OLD Antique Bowl Mystery solved and it's worth a pretty penny, too.

I won't be selling this piece, as it was a gift, but I will add a note on the bottom of what it is,---so my kids won't have to wonder what the heck this needle in a haystack was.

When doing a search: don't give up, but do try many different avenues. You may have to go to many sites to get to the information you want. And, you never know, Granny's old dishes may be worth plenty of pennies.

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