BTW, here’s ours: Noritake Brookhollow.
My wife specifically wanted something that wasn’t white; this pattern is more of an ivory color.
I have inherited my parents’ gorgeous Franciscan Ware, circa 1938, which were always our “good” china. The pieces are very art-deco and squarish (with rounded corners), and are colored a sort of dusty, neutral rose, and the interiors of bowls, cups and service pieces are ivory-colored. I have service for 12, minus one salad plate that my cousin broke.
We wouldn’t use our as everyday plates because china and granite counters don’t get along. Chipping was one of the reasons we replaced our Pfaltgraf set with Corelle-ware; I can’t imagine how soon we’d wipe out our china.
I know we’ve discussed this before, but I love my Corelle. The smartest thing they did was updating their patterns away from those matronly florals. They are really durable, yet so cheap that I’d have no issues giving the old set away and buying a whole new set every 5 years or so. And they are lighter and stack so much taller than the Pfaltzgraf. My Pfaltzgraf pattern was really starting to look dated, but there was no way I was going to spend several hundred bucks to replace my set of 12, knowing that I’d soon be replacing individual pieces because of breakage.
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We never had wedding china. When my mother died, I inherited her good china. I grew up with it in the house, but had never eaten off of it. She wouldn’t have dreamed of using it because “What if a piece gets broken??”
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That’s when you go to replacements.com or even better, plug the pattern name into eBay and find a replacement.
Well, seeing as how my mother’s been gone for 21 years, eBay and replacements.com would not have been realistic options. . .
But even under ideal conditions, my mother was not ever what you’d have called ‘logical’; for instance, she got rid of our microwave on the spur of the moment one year, because ‘it causes cancer’, but kept smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. . .:smack:
But if you’re planning on getting rid of your china, that wouldn’t really matter. You would get some use out of them for a while.
Mainly because I have regular plates I like and I don’t need two sets. And I’m severely downsizing and moving in a couple of months so if it ain’t necessary, it’s leaving the house.
The china and crystal are gone gone gone.
We don’t have wedding china, per se - I inherited my aunt’s. It’s a fussy floral pattern that I’d have never chosen and it’s older than I am. We do use it once or twice a year.
I am single, but have had my great-grandmother’s china for ten years. It is Spode - Cowslip, not something I would have chosen myself, but I like it. It is 100 years old and I use it for holidays and when friends come over, even for casual dinners. I have an incomplete service for eight, but it has the luncheon plates, the demi-tasses and the serving platters and tureens. My grandmother always used it for the holidays and I have fond memories of it.
I also have her silver, but I use that less often, can’t be bothered to polish it every time.
I actually love that fussy pattern, very English & old fashioned.
I have 3 patterns from my mom’s family, almost complete set for 16 including many serving dishes and platters, almost complete set of 10 with only one platter & serving bowl and a very old set of 2 serving bowls & a large platter from my great great grandmother (Unknown pattern with Roses and Scalloped edges rimmed with Platinum from Johnson Brothers c. 1880).
Luckily I also have the dining room table & chairs, china cabinet & buffet - so it doesn’t look too out of place.
I have never openly envied anyone, but I will say it now: I am totally envious of your Limoges set. LIMOGES! My. God. 1835!! :eek: I think I need to go lay down.
We do not have the barrels it was shipped in, but the original reciept is at my moms house.
Did I mention my family rarely throws anything away? :smack: