Unusual Shelley China Queen Elizabeth II Teacup and Sequim Lavender Festival

My favorite time of year around here...Sequim Lavender Festival. Our 14th annual this year. Street fair, live music, food court, lavender farm tours, you name it...it's here. Even an impromptu antique fair at a local business parking lot. How cool is that!~!

You can learn more at the lavender festival website: www.lavenderfestival.com

We went to the street fair etc tomorrow and more things to do today including Jazz In The Alley. Too fun!!

 

    I added this to Time Was Antiques 

recently and was thrilled when I found it. Shelley China, England is my favorite manufacturer and I have been dealing in Shelley for 20 years. I have seen a lot of British Royal Commemorative cups and saucers, but I have never had one just like this. I LOVE discovering new items from wonderful Shelley.

The sepia photo of the queen is on many of the commemoratives both from Shelley and others. The reason is there are a number of designs/photos that are approved by the queen to be used and companies draw from those designs for their items.

What's different about this cup and saucer is the Ripon shape which was not the one usually used for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, and also the addition of the gold leaf border. The Ripon set often comes with the burnished 22 kt gold foot , trim and handle which this set has. The color is actually a pale yellow which didn't photograph well. All together a special find. I LOVE it!

To learn more about this great Shelley China royal commemorative, visit this clickable link:


Shelley Queen Elizabeth II coronation teacup


Have a fun day and enjoy your local area activities....support your local community. After all, you're there!

Romantic Brown Transferware - Window on the Past

I absolutely love transferware...always have. It started when I was in my 20s. I was enthralled by the history and world view of those windows into victorian life and perception. There are loads of people who share my interest. There is a wonderful Transferware Collector's Club website that I love to browse. The patterns & resources are incredible.

This is a great example. This is an antique brown transfer or transferware cake serving plate made by Grindley, England in a pattern called Daffodil...check out the border as well as the center...in brown transferware made in Staffordshire, England...hence the genre name Romantic Staffordshire...with the British Registry mark for 1882. I just added yesterday to  Time Was Antiques. I have stacks of plates in the warehouse from trips to England antiquing I am just getting to. Whew!!!

Transferware is decorative, evocative and highly collectible. A favorite thing is using a harmonious grouping of transferware as wall art. As the main colors are red, pink, mulberry, green, blue, brown and polychrome or more than one color, there is a color for any room available. 

I found a great Blogger site called Nancy's Daily Dish who blogs on a different dish a day. Beautifully done blog. She also mixes in her poetry. I'm following it. Great job.

We are having our SUMMER SIZZLE 15% OFF sale at Time Was Antiques with code 016 at checkout. I have gotta make room!!!

Today is blue and sunny and will be in the 70s...about perfect for us Pacific Northwesters. We are going to have a bit of a day out to go antiquing locally...we do twice a week. Have a few estate sales today and that is always fun.  This week is the l Sequim Lavender Festival which is a BIG deal around here. We always look forward to it! Visits to the various lavender farms...16 in the area, I think, plus a street fair, food and lots of local things include antique shows which, of course, we'll go to. Come visit if you're close!! Sequim Lavender Festival starts Friday, July 16th and runs all weekend. Have a great day! 

Antique Horse Brass Victorian Jockey Fred Archer 1890s

This is a sad tale of the foremost horse racing jockey of the victorian era.

I have just added an antique horse brass I found in England last buying trip of Fred Archer. Fred Archer was born in Cheltenham England in 1857 and had an illustrious horse racing career. He won the Derby a record 5 times. The National Horseracing Museum describes him as "the best all-round jockey that the Turf has ever seen."

Despite his success he suffered from depression and after the death of his wife he committed suicide at the age of 29 in 1886 and passed into...literally...song and legend. There were several famous music hall songs and ballads at the time. What a shame.

This is an actual photo taken of him at the age of 25.


To see more about the horse brass, their history and other horse brasses we have at Time Was Antiques, visit this clickable link:

Antique Horse Brass Victorian Jockey Fred Archer 1890s

    Today is a lovely day for watching the World Cup final between Spain & The Netherlands. It's warm & sunny...70s. After church we had to hurry home so as not to miss the game. My DH, being a Brit and therefore a died-in-the-wool football fan (or soccer to the Yanks) is still keen although England was sent off rather soon for him. Sigh...Should be a great day. Then a walk and who knows what else! We DO have to get some cat food for our cat, Tinker. But what a gorgeous day today here. Hope it's cooled down if you're on the east coast!
Have a great day! 

Queen Elizabeth II in Canada Royal Visit

Queen Elizabeth II is in Canada for a Royal Visit. Today she toured the Canadian navy in Halifax Harbor and looking strong, capable and dressed in one of her famous ensembles with matching hat. I am really amazed how well she is and what a trouper at 84. I couldn't keep up with her schedule with her diligence and I am decades younger. You go girl!!! She amazes me and I give her my respect.

It was raining yesterday and threatening for today, but being a Brit...she's used to that! You can see more about the visit on The Royal Channel on YouTube. I have a link here under my favorite links , or use this clickable link to the site:
The Royal Channel

For their post about the arrival in Canada, here is that link:
Royal Tour To Canada Day 1

Antique Cabinet Card Photo Of 2 Children & World Cup England Defeat

When we closed our actual antique shop, we packed up and put a lot into storage. We have just gotten to some of it. In our antique shop we sold a lot of antique photographica, which is quite a popular collectible. Old photographs are collected for their nostalgia value, historical value and as a window to view past times, styles, attitudes and decorating periods and for some, a way to add instant relatives!!!

This is a cabinet card from the 1870-188s featuring 2 children, which are always popular. It was quite the style for babies and toddlers to be dressed in what we call dresses so it was hard to tell the sexes apart. The child in the spindle back chair could be either a boy or a girl. The boy standing is about 7-8 and is quite the man about town. They look a bit bored and stupefied, but photography was a slow and laborious process then. No instant phone photos then!

Cabinet photos were made of a card mounted photograph and became popular in the 1860s until the 1890s. They measure about 6.5 inches by 4.5 inches. This one is from Cassville, Wisconsin by a photographed named Ishmael. You learn about geography as well looking at old photos. Anyway, they are quite fun & I'll enjoy reacquainting myself with the ones out of storage.

To visit this cute duo or others we are adding visit our Cabinet Photos category at Time Was Antiques.

A cloudy day today, and a disappointed Brit husband after the World Cup defeat of England. Sigh...Maybe in 4 years....I even gave him his Ty Phoo tea in his St. George's Cross mug from Dunoon to see him through the match to no avail. Ah well.

It's his birthday tomorrow, so maybe we'll do something special to make it up to him! Have a great day.

JULY4TH 15% off sale at Time Was Antiques

Just wanted to let everyone know that since the nice weather seems REALLY to be here in Western Washington, I decided to celebrate with a 15% off everything at Time Was Antiques including including sale items. The coupon code is JULY4TH and can be reused. You can also combine with our FREESHIP for free shipping in the USA for orders over $100.00 WooHoo!!!

We have been having a great time adding new items. Not only from our last buying trip, but have promised ourselves to finally get the warehouse back area cleared out a bit. When we closed our bricks & mortar antiques shop, a lot of items came right off the shelves, were packed and ended up in storage. We moved about 3 months later, and the boxes went into the van and then to the back of the warehouse where they have languished since 2003. Soo...a project indeed. We'd just returned from an English buying trip 6 months before we moved and the stock we bought there had been received, repacked and added to the storage accumulation.So this is really like Christmas because other than knowing the items were there because of the inventory, it's amazing how you forget and how exciting when you open the box.

We have lots of great items and I am diligently adding daily, so keep checking out our new items link at Time Was Antiques.

Evans Silver Mesh Art Deco Vintage Compact

I have a thing (one of several) for art deco design and this is so cool!!! This is a vintage Evans Case Company, USA silver mesh bottom compact made in the 1930s. The lid is engine turned silver plate with black enamel inserts which is SOO art deco. The compact is all intact including powder & puff. How cool is that! I can just see the elegant lady taking this out to powder her nose & check her bobbed hair and cupid's bow lipstick.

The compact can be seen including inside photos at Time Was Antiques Evans silver mesh compact

We have a partly sunny day today and hope everyone is looking forward to celebrating Father's Day on Sunday. My DH will get calls form the kids and it will be a great relaxing day. Tomorrow we are going to our community yard sale...you never know what you'll find, and it will be a fun Saturday thing with lunch out and seeing friends. Get out there!!! There are fun things to do everywhere....graduations and parties, fairs, parks to walk in, beaches to comb...you name it!
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