I love having a bit of a challenge, and when I saw that this weekend’s hash tag project on Instagram was teatime, I thought it would be a good opportunity to play with my tea cups...
( ...nothing much has changed I suppose, since I was given my first tea set when I was about 6! )
These were my first tea cups of my collection...
I was staying in theatrical digs in Sheffield when I had just turned 20, and my landlady had an amazing collection of art deco plates on her wall.
She said she’d started collecting them years ago when no-one wanted them and they were really cheap...
Her advice to me as a young, wannabe collector was to collect something out of fashion, cheap, but always something which I genuinely liked...
So these quite rare, but chipped, Portmeirion ‘Gold Signs’ cups ( without saucers ) were my first purchases at 50p each from a charity shop in Sheffield in 1993...and they are still my most coveted cups, particularly as I’ve never found any others from the set.
( Poole, early Kathy Winkle and Susie Cooper )
I have far too many china cups now, so it was really lovely to get them out and show them off in the manner in which they were made for!
amazing! would love to have a cup of tea right now :)
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