This is the Clementine pattern of Pope Gosser china. This was made in Coshocton, Ohio. This pattern was probably made around 1957 and the company went out of business in 1958.
The fact that it dates from that late has me completely stumped as to who it belonged to. I can't imagine anyone in my family was buying china at that point. The only thing that MIGHT fit is that date is about when Granny moved from Hamilton, NY to where I lived. I suppose she might have bought new dishes, but I have no memory of using these. That said... they are pink and fancy and I wouldn't have liked them. Although I lived with Granny a fair amount of the time after she moved to my hometown, I can't pull up any recollection of what dishes we did use. I remember almost all of the dishes from home though. Staying with Granny was not in the category of my favorite things.
The point is, these are not of any special family significance.
What I seem to have is 4 dinner plates, 4 small plates, 5 small bowls, and 3 saucers. Again... no cups.
I spent some time in the building where I think the box with all the missing cups must be. No luck. But it HAS to be there.
I did manage to find all the quilts (except one that I haven't seen for 50 years, so maybe it wore out because it wasn't in great shape even then), now washed, that Granny made. They are collected into one location. I've shown you some of them. I'll go through the whole bunch on the blog once more because I've found homes for a few of them.
But, you wouldn't believe the amount of time I spent looking for the rest of the pile of quilts that I had previously cleaned and put away. I had nearly exhausted all the places I could think of for where I might have put them, but eventually I found them. Needless to say, that whole process did not improve the neatness of the house.
That said, I think I will start packing up some of the china again. With a value threshold, Replacements, Ltd, will accept dropoffs of china and flatware. I know I can easily make that cutoff because I also have a ton of family silverware that needs to go somewhere. That would be a fun road trip- to North Carolina. I think I'll start contemplating that.
While I was hunting for the cups, I did find at least one other box of stuff from Mom's house that can be sorted and gotten rid of. Yeah, it's only one box, but one box at a time is better than nothing.
I also made an initial contact with the museum where some family items are going to go.
I get pats on the head for a day of progress on this hopeless sorting project even if not much actual progress was made.
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2 comments:
The plates are a mystery. I got to thinking about it and I can't remember what the plates looked like that we used when I was growing up
Lulu: "Our Mama and Dada have bought plates and such from that Replacements place before! In fact they bought a few replacements for their wedding dishes that they never used for years and then brought in to Goodwill after trying to use them and discovering they were pretty terrible for everyday use."
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