Lochalsh 
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HB, is Antiques Roadshow coming to your area soon? The plate looks like a prime candidate for the program. :)
(Lesley, I think AR is a knockoff of one of your appraisal-of-old-things TV shows.)
Reply #2321. Feb 11 11, 8:59 PM
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honeybee4
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Lochalsh, I don't have any idea if they will be in my area. I am not sure if the people who come through here about once a year are affiliated with Antiques Road Show. It is only one or to people who come to our town's library and they will appraise one item per person.
Reply #2322. Feb 11 11, 9:38 PM
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| lesley153
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Lochalsh, I do believe it is.
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I just had a quick look at this hour's Expert game.
On the home page, it says:
"Who's the Expert? - 9 mins
"Now: Colleges & Universities"
I clicked it and it said:
"This Hour: Colleges & Universities ( World )"
One of them is a college in London. One guess where the other 14 are.
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Concert this evening. Back in a bit. |
Reply #2323. Feb 12 11, 12:39 PM
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| s-m-w
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Sorry to impinge on your blog Lesley, but in answer to honeybees Weimar piece.
It looks (and I can only go from the picture} as if it a Rautenshield , and they of course had Germany added between 1879 – 1917 and would indicate that it was made by the Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G. in Blankenhain around that time.
Steve
Reply #2324. Feb 12 11, 12:57 PM
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honeybee4
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Sorry Lesley, I looked up Weimar Republic and it said it was in existence from 1919-1933. I assume that the pieces were made in the first year of the Weimar Republic. I don't know for sure.
Reply #2325. Feb 12 11, 1:56 PM
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honeybee4
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The pieces are definitely dated 1-16-19.
Reply #2326. Feb 12 11, 1:57 PM
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| lesley153
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Steve, you haven't impinged on my blog, you've joined in the debate, so there's nothing to apologise for.
Sounds interesting and very clever. Will they make Judy rich? |
Reply #2327. Feb 12 11, 5:51 PM
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flopsymopsy
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Weimar is a place... I would assume the mark indicates that the pieces were made there.
Reply #2328. Feb 12 11, 6:01 PM
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| lesley153
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I forgot Weimar was a place!
I enjoyed the concert. Two familiar pieces, "Academic Festival Overture" by Brahms, and Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" by Dvořák. Good orchestra, and a full house.
Most of all, I was delighted to have got there. I've missed so many concerts over the last couple of years, simply because making myself presentable, and getting in the car, was more than I could manage. This evening, I scrubbed up and it was all very easy.
It finished early enough for me to go to Tesco and spend too much money. At half past ten, Merv texted to ask me if I'd seen "your cutting, left in the letterbox?"
When? Been out since 7, still out.
"Right. You'll find it when you get home."
Ok, thanks.
"No probs."
No probs? Aaargh! I'll read it tomorrow. :) |
Reply #2329. Feb 12 11, 8:24 PM
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Jazmee27
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Glad you enjoyed yourself.
Why do you let Merv get to you?
Deep breath there, Lesley! ((()))
Reply #2330. Feb 12 11, 9:25 PM
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| s-m-w
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“Will they make Judy rich?”
If the pieces make her happy she is already rich!
The quality and condition of the pieces is very important to their worth, but please remember that, a value is simply what one person would be willing to pay for any item at one certain time.
Reply #2331. Feb 13 11, 3:44 AM
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honeybee4
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That is right s-m-w. Actually, after I put it in my china cabinet I never thought much of it.
Reply #2332. Feb 13 11, 9:00 AM
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daymare
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What kind of cutting is in your mailbox, Lesley?
Reply #2333. Feb 13 11, 9:27 AM
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| lesley153
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Merv doesn't really get to me any more, but why did he need to reply "no probs" to my thanks? What problems could there possibly be?
"If the pieces make her happy she is already rich!"
That's one way of looking at it! :)
It's a bit from his paper - a folded bit which makes four pages. He used to bring me cuttings of things he thought either or both of us might be interested in. There are a few interesting articles in this one, so I don't know how many of them are aimed at me, but I'm sure I shall find them uplifting.
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Reply #2334. Feb 13 11, 11:23 AM
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Lochalsh
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Ah, they were "clippings." When I saw the word "cuttings," I thought Mervito had sent you flowers. (O frabjous day, no?)
I'm learning English after all these years.
Reply #2335. Feb 13 11, 11:36 AM
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| lesley153
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Most frabjous of days indeed!
If a British gardener gave you cuttings, they would be bits of plant for you to grow more plants from, either by planting so they could grow roots, or by grafting onto another plant. If anyone sent cut flowers, they'd just be called flowers.
A few weeks ago, I treated myself to two bunches of freesias, one white and one lilac, and mixed them up in the same vase. When they died, I replaced them with a mixture of yellow roses and tiny yellow carnations. Cheerful.
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When my cousin was going back to an empty flat for the first time after his wife died, I suggested that he treat himself to a bunch of flowers. No, he said, because they don't last long. Anyway, he's got a few vases of dried flowers. (I didn't argue. I thought it was a nice idea. He didn't have to agree.) |
Reply #2336. Feb 13 11, 12:01 PM
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| lesley153
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PS I'm sure our languages have a lot of similarities, as well as the well-documented differences.
PPS If Merv sent me flowers, I'd faint! |
Reply #2337. Feb 13 11, 12:03 PM
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Lochalsh
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Well, cuttings in the U.S. are snippets for propagation, too. When I mentioned flowers, I was just taking poetic license (and I do have one).
I've mixed pale yellow and pale salmon roses to great effect. Have photographic proof of such, if I can locate it.
Reply #2338. Feb 13 11, 12:08 PM
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Lochalsh
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I'd faint, too, since I'm allergic to most flora. :(
Reply #2339. Feb 13 11, 12:08 PM
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| lesley153
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The yellow roses are drooping, the carnations are still sprightly, and they're all still a cheerful colour.
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When my uncle died two years ago, his son learnt for the first time that he wasn't executor and sole beneficiary, as he had been told: he had been willed a lifetime interest in the flat, no claim on any of its contents, one of our cousins, our aunt's elder son, was co-executor, and our aunt's two sons would share the flat after my cousin's death.
We believe that he was punishing his son for marrying a woman he hated. (My cousin was married three times, and his father broke up his first marriage, and tried but failed to break up the next two.) "I hate that woman - she's not getting her hands on MY money."
My cousin's third wife died a few months ago, after he re-established contact with his estranged daughter from his first marriage. We thought her mother had poisoned the child against her father. With what we know know, it seems that it was my uncle who did the poisoning - and she's not a child now.
He also told his son not to have anything to do with my brother and me, because we didn't visit him enough.
The daughter-in-law my uncle hated so much is now dead. There is no moral reason for our mutual cousins to hang on to the property. Legal, OK, just not moral. Watch this space but don't hold your breath. Not a flying pig in sight.
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His step-daughter has had a hernia for years, but won't get surgery for it till she loses weight. She hasn't tried to lose weight, and her BMI is about 60.
She was rushed into hospital yesterday, in a very worrying condition. Her hernia had become strangulated and now she had to have surgery, with an 80% chance of getting through it.
The operation was performed this evening, and he's heard that it was successful, so we can all relax and get some sleep.
Does this prove that things come in threes?
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Having fun working through all the things that have come down from the loft. There are a few broken toys, that probably weren't broken before they were put away. I'm brandishing a Stanley knife and chopping the cardboard house up into pieces small enough to go in the recycling.
There are toys and books Jonathan could have continued to enjoy for a few years after they disappeared.
After the five leather handbags, and a nice posh wool skirt, probably the most surprising thing I found was a hat. I wore it to a wedding, then a funeral, then it disappeared. The only posh hat I've ever had in my life, squashed at the bottom of a box of heavy toys. (Not counting the red hat that everyone laughed at.)
Perhaps there's a way of cleaning it without getting t wet. I shall sleep on it. (Not the hat.)
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Reply #2340. Feb 20 11, 7:58 PM
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