Posted 7 years ago
ChaseCan
(35 items)
Some may want to slap me upside the head after reading this.
Cleaning out yet another storage unit with a ton of trash the auction winner left behind. One of things left behind was a broken plastic bin with junk and a bunch of newspaper wrapped items. All looked like this pepper shaker. Some broken. Many not. Creamers, and plates etc. I didn't unwrap all of it after seeing several were broken. The auction winner had thrown things on top and broke a good many pieces.
Towards the end of the clean up I found this pepper shaker. It looked cute. So I kept it. Hoping to find the salt shaker but knew I probably wouldn't as the bin that contained it all was thrown out first.
Curious, I looked up how to clean it. (Which if you know a way, please let me know) and discovered what it is.
Vintage Blue Willow China. At least I think it is...
At any rate, the rest of the set currently resides at the bottom of a now full trash dumpster.
It's one of those, "Had I known what I know now" scenarios.
Hindsight is truly 20/20.
No maker mark on it that I can see.
No, it's not Blue Willow; it is from the Currier and Ives collection of the 1940s-1970s, (I think that's the right period). The only pieces marked in our set (we have a mixed set of everything one could want in this theme) are The Old Gristmill, though we also have some with steamers, women on buggies (similar to your men on wagons), trains, mountains, etc. The collection was just replicating old Currier and Ives prints, and putting them on dinnerware in this shade of blue.