Are you acquainted with Pink Lusterware? Well, I wasn’t….sure I had seen plenty of the ubiquitous gold & blue and even had a piece or two that I had found over the years…including a hand painted little bowl that my maternal grandmother had painted many, many years ago when that’s what housewives did with their spare afternoons (along with bridge).
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| My grandmother signed & dated this piece MSM '31 (a little blurry, you'll just have to trust me on this). It's kind of cool I know all these years later where she was in her life when she created this... she was newlywed to my grandfather. |
Well, a couple of months ago I was perusing the blog of a fellow north shore blogger Katy Elliot and I stumbled upon this photo that one of her followers had sent her and let me just tell you it stopped me dead in my tracks!
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I was instantly intrigued…such a magnificent display of something I didn’t even know existed. By the way, Katy writes a really good post about how to collect pink lusterware. You should definitely check it out if your as intrigued by the collection as I am.
Well, to be fair, I have seen a piece or two over the years but for some reason had never really paid it much attention. I think it’s the gravity of the number of pieces in this picture that caught my fancy…for sure a dedicated collector if I have ever seen one.
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| From Katy's post...isn't this a beauty? photo source |
I really don’t consider myself “a collector” but in reality I probably qualify (she says in the tone of someone fessing up at a “fill in the blank” anonymous meeting). I freely admit my affinity to depression glass, red transferware, pin trays and a couple of other favs but does that make me a bone a fide collector….I have collector friends and we go on jaunts looking for the illustrious missing pieces to our “collections” but does that make me a bone a fide collector either…
Well, I think I may have crossed the threshold on this one…I have been actively seeking pink lusterware since I came upon Katy's photos.
It’s official I have been pulled to the dark side. And just to put a nail in the proverbial coffin I have recently acquired these 2 lovely pieces as well as rediscovering this lovely little cup & saucer that was from my great grandmother’s collection.
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| The start of something good...much more contemporary lusterware but still beautiful |
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And to make it worse, I really am loving them. Do I need them, no for sure not but after some deep soul searching I think I’m ok with that.
