May 13, 2010

• Weekly Photo Challenge, “Museum Pieces”

  
  

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  the Weekly Photo Challenge
  It runs for one full week from Friday mornings to late Thursday nights. 

   

  The challenge beginning May 8, 2010 is:

  “Museum Pieces”
  
  suggested by  MattBarber

   

  My whole house is a museum, with an eclectic mixture sitting on shelves and window ledges.  I have had children knock on my door to see if they can come in to shop and that isn’t a joke.  I like a lot of things and wish I didn’t but most of it has cost very little as I love to shop at thrift stores and I was an avid yard sale addict.. 

   

  Some Photos

   

  

  1- This is a wedding lithograph that hangs in our hall, an angled view.  It has a copyright of 1894 and was printed in Berlin, Germany.

   

   

  

  2- The nested Robin is a Westmoreland piece and the bowl is Nippon.  The jar and box hold old shell buttons.

   

   

  

  3- More buttons in the box and a Santa from Taiwan dated 1984.  I probably would not have purchased the santa in 1984 but now, the stores are filled with similar items but made from molded plastics.  Comparatively I like him much more now than I would have then.  He is a painted, not a fired, piece so you need to be careful how you clean it.

   

   

  

  4- I’m not a big collector of Lladro but I have 5 pieces and there are several more I’d like to have.  All of them involve Turkeys or Chickens in the theme.  My Lladro are all older pieces.  People selling it push the importance of a box but the papers that were originally with them are even more important and the Lladro mark on the bottom is a must.  Lladro has no interest in verifying any of their pieces without the papers even if they were an inheritance.  People collecting the smaller pieces think they have a worthwhile investment which I decided was not really the case.  I only buy what I really like and want for myself.  Lladro sells pieces for under a hundred dollars up to in the nature of $25,000. and possibly more.  They do have pieces in museums and though a relatively young company, Valencia, Spain 1955, their pieces are very desirable.

   

   

  

  5- This is my tallest piece.  She will go to another spot when I have some display cases finished.

   

   

  

  6-  I bought the turkey on the left years ago and broke it.  You can see the glue lines indicating the really bad fix.  I liked it so much I hunt EBay for a replacement and found the one on the right which I like but the colors are so dark it doesn’t do for me exactly what the first one did.  I keep trying for the exact replacement but nothing so far.  I have found one with different numbers than mine on it and a shade different coloring.  I’m not sure I’ll ever find the exact one.

   

  

  7- My mother collected bottles and some of these were hers.  Mom’s windows were always full of a wide variety and I guess I inherited the love for them.  I have bottles that were manufactured for practical uses as well as decorative. 

   

   

  

  8- A Lenox Pepper Mill some newer toby mugs, a gift from one of my sisters, a Norman Rockwell mug done by Dave Grossman.  As you can see I collect a variety of things from dolls to bottles to cups and mugs to ???  Some of it was a gift and some cost as little as a quarter at a thrift shop.  Most all of it has a special spot in my heart as well as in my home.

   

  So a bit of a peek at my personal museum. 

  Have a great week,
  

   

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