Vintage tableware

[shindeco]

Yaaaay!!!! I finally got dinner plates for my set!! I've been collecting this pattern for almost 10 years now and the dinner plates were the hardest to find. Now I can have a dinner party.

(The pattern is called "Balmoral" by Alfred Meakin; first introduced in 1937. Silver is Rogers "Paris" pattern (1931). The wine glasses were my grandmothers and the fish knives and forks are something else I collect.)

 

[scotrace]

Beautiful! Do you use your collecion for guests?

 

[yachtsilverswan]

Hi Shindeco - Congratulations! It's always a great day when a collection becomes complete enough to actually use.

Are you familiar with Replacements, the tableware warehouse in Burlington, NC? They have additional pieces in your pattern (though no dinner plates in current inventory). http://www.replacements.com/webquote/MEABALM.htm

 

[shindeco]

Scotrace - yes, it definitely gets used.

yachtsilverswan - I actually did know of Replacements but thanks for the heads up. It's a great service they offer, in't it? I got most of my stuff off e-bay because it's sometimes cheaper, but not always! I got a big box of serving pieces at auction. Stumbling on that was quite exciting!

 

[Flitcraft]

Wow! Pretty cool table set.
Always glad to hear it when someone completes a collection like that and then actually gets to use it!

 

[Naama]

Uuuuuu! They look gorgeous! I would be afraid of breaking them, handel them with care!

Naama

 

[jkath]

Your collection is devine! I love to use my old serving pieces as much as possible! There's no fun in having wonderful items if you never get them out of the cupboard! Have you ever posted to ebay's "want it now" forum for your pattern? Just a thought.

 

[Alan Eardley]

English ceramics

Shindeco

My wife is in the pottery business - used to design tableware for Royal Albert and Royal Doulton near where your Alfred Meaking set was made. Now she restores damaged porcelain. She can often find pieces of a set that are otherwise unobtainable, if you need to replace broken items.

Alan

 

[shindeco]

Shindeco

My wife is in the pottery business - used to design tableware for Royal Albert and Royal Doulton near where your Alfred Meaking set was made. Now she restores damaged porcelain. She can often find pieces of a set that are otherwise unobtainable, if you need to replace broken items.

Alan

Alan
Thanks!! What a great resource! (I've always wanted the teapot and have never even seen one...)

Murray

 

[InspectorMorse]

Very Sweet!...Replacements in Greensboro, NC is a wonderful source- I am not that far away and have visited their store a few times- amazing place! http://www.replacements.com

 

[scotrace]

Hotel Silver

Anyone collect it?
I'd like to find a decent set of plate flatware at a good price for every day use. Also some of the big water pitchers, sugar bowls, coffee servers, etc., are pretty neat.
Or china and servwear from passenger trains.

 

[Braxton36]

Hotel silver

Scotrace - I don't see hotel silver as being widely collected. It can often be picked up at auctions and flea markets for very little. Look for that marked Meridien, Quadruple Plate or even "hotel silver" on the bottom. It's often very heavy and better plated than other silver plate as it was designed to withstand heavy use/abuse. At home we have a few very heavy oval covers that you would associate with room service but these are so large they would really have been used to cover a duck or some other large entree in a dining room setting. They are from an old local hotel long since burned down.

Often the flatware is marked with the hotel's name or monogram on the front but finding a whole set would be difficult as the few stray pieces that migrated out were usually purloined in pocketbooks. I have several dozen demitasse spoons apparently smuggled out of the Plaza in NYC by a great aunt who must have had many, many evening meals there. These were found in a box with glass swizzle sticks from what seemed to be every 1930's/40's bar in Manhattan. Gee... maybe she was a hooker... hmmm.

 

[JoeNiblick]

Hotel Silver!

Ah-ha, I see other people are trying to find it, too! Martha Stewart's Catalog for Living had some nice reproductions available before they shut down. I've been searching eBay and elsewhere for a set of silver-plate cake stands. I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for... Which is frustrating because it used to be available!

As a side note, there used to be so many great items in that catalog. I wonder if they'll ever open up shop again.

Here's an image from the old catalog.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Yaaaay!!!! I finally got dinner plates for my set!! I've been collecting this pattern for almost 10 years now and the dinner plates were the hardest to find. Now I can have a dinner party.

(The pattern is called "Balmoral" by Alfred Meakin; first introduced in 1937. Silver is Rogers "Paris" pattern (1931). The wine glasses were my grandmothers and the fish knives and forks are something else I collect.)

"I love Alfred Meakin designs, I was told once that any design with the deep "Sapphire" blue is very good quality. I love Meakins "Princess" design I have seen it in both "Acid" green and "Blue" with silver

This is in "Tango Orange"

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Heatmaster"

I collect Heatmaster Tea and coffee ware. it is made of china but sits in an insulated chrome "Jacket" that keeps the beverage Hot. so practical!

Sometimes it is marked "Everhot" or "KozyKraft"

 

[JerseyMutt]

Yaaaay!!!! I finally got dinner plates for my set!! I've been collecting this pattern for almost 10 years now and the dinner plates were the hardest to find. Now I can have a dinner party.

(The pattern is called "Balmoral" by Alfred Meakin; first introduced in 1937. Silver is Rogers "Paris" pattern (1931). The wine glasses were my grandmothers and the fish knives and forks are something else I collect.)

That is a gorgeous collection. And in such fine condition too.

 

[Foofoogal]

scotrace

there is a wonderful article about train and hotel china is the August issue of Country Living magazine for 2009. (next mo.) I thought of you immediately when I was reading it. Pretty good.


http://sandysfancypants.blogspot.com/

 

[scotrace]

Oh! Thank you! I'll look for it.

 

[JoeNiblick]

New Additions

I've been searching for YEARS to figure out where I could get this creamy Wedgwood pattern. The Martha Stewart Catalog just called it "Queen's Ware."

I even went as far as emailing Wedgwood, and that got me NO WHERE! The pattern is in the same shape as Drabware, but it's made from a lighter clay.

Finally, after a random Google search (which had previously been fruitless), I found out the pattern is really called "Traditional." I was able to purchase the beginnings of a set from replacements.com, and then a few months later (and after checking back frequently), they received a stock of the coupe cups and saucers I wanted (there's also a tulip-shaped cup I didn't like as well... Probably because it's not what they had in the catalog, and after so many years, it was burned in my brain). Anyway, I'm happy to say my set is now complete!

And on an unrelated note (but related to more Martha Stewart catalog stuff I wished I had...), I found four small hotel silver compotes on eBay...

Mine are from the Four Seasons hotel, which makes them even better than some reproduction!

 

[JoeNiblick]

Forgot one more thing...

Pottery Barn has silver-plated bowls similar to the ones from Martha Stewart, too!

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/silver-plated-small-bowl/?pkey=x%7C4%7C1%7C%7C10%7Csilver%20bowl%7C%7C0&cm_src=SCH

They're $19, and for now, I can't bring myself to pay that much.