going back generations, my family were from below the stairs not above them. they were simple folk. I did not inherit any family silver. the only silver piece that I know of in my family is the infamous tea pot that my Uncle Brian put onto the wood burning stove when he was visiting the original Inglewood.. it melted. and I have heard that the ancestors were not impressed with that.
as a little girl, I loved going to my friends place where I would gaze longingly at her mothers silver service. wishing it were mine. I even begged to be able to clean silver for people when I was a Girl Guide doing 'cents for service' ~ I would sit in front of their family silver with silver polish and cloth, and clean that silver til it shone, always making up stories in my head about that silver & me..
I have always had a fascination for old silver and like a bower bird, I have gathered bits over the years.
and today, i remembered that I do have one piece of silver of my own and that is a Pixie cup that my Pa gave to me when I was a little girl. my pixie mugdo you have a fascination with anything like I do with old silver?
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Crystal. Shiny clean sparkling crystal!!
I read the lovely story about you and your pixie mug. I have an old mug from my childhood too, but it's a plastic mug that looks like Yogi Bear's head. Well, to each their own! But I DID have a short hairstyle when I was little that was known as a "pixie cut."
Yes! I too love old silver,china tea pots,rusty gates,water cans,old lace, old doors,open windows,old things in general that have a patina of age.Rocks and minerals quartz and jade...the list is long. I have no idea why those things call to me...but I certainly love them more than anything new I could buy.
:-)
Wow. Interesting collection! It almost makes me with I had an obsession with something to collect. The only things I perpetually collect are innumerable items on my to-do list.
They never get done, mind you. : - /
Anything old that was in my family I treasure. I recently was given a plant that came from one y great grandmother owned, I am carefully nursing it . It is on my kitchen windowsill.
P.S I am enjoying your each day postings.
So rewarding shining up old neglected pieces of silver, the black left on the cloth while the object gleams,rescued and liberated from dullness. Relaxing too, while listening to the radio.I collected silver and crystal for a while, but now tend towards more of the nature stuff- sticks,stones bark and pebbles.I guess it's the fossicking and seeing the possibility to transform something that you like to look at. I liked reading the insights into your family Robyn.My family was not into the silver much, my husband's very much so, with heirloom pieces handed down through generations. My brother and I had mugs when we were little, ceramic with a bird on the handle that was actually a whistle.I'd forgotten them 'til your post.
That pixie mug is beautiful!!!
I have a number of fascinations - silver is one of them. I must blog about a couple of pieces I got from Tom's grandmother's collection.
One of the reasons I hang on to everything is because as a child I yearned for family heirlooms but we didn't have any! I've kept so many things that I intended to hand down to my kids but neither one of them is interested! There you go....I've saved all this stuff to just have to get rid of it now. But I still love old stuff whatever it is.
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