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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Dads & Grads Google Checkout Promotion & Daisy and Button Butter Pat

Hi folks...and a lovely day it is here in Sequim, Washington in the Blue Hole. We are sunny and surrounded by clouds after a biggish storm went thru which was actually the remnants of cyclone Alana, last seen in India. But today is gorgeous!!!

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I have posted the photo of a neat butter pat I just found at a local estate sale that I love. The pattern is called Daisy and Button and the butter pat was made by L. G. Wright and is technically a Depression Glass pattern. The butter pat is a lovely amber color and in excellent condition. Butter pats make great teabag holders, sauce dishes and ring holders by the sink when you are cleaning or otherwise need to take off your rings. Cool!

For more info, go to Daisy And Button Butter Pat

Have agreat day. We're doing some yard work & then back to adding new items to Time Was Antiques.

Birds & Nest Cup and Saucer & tea source Teadog.com

I just added this gorgeous vintage 1920-1930s cup and saucer by Cartwright & Edwards, Victoria. I just LOVED the hand applied enamel paint on the black transfer of birds and a nest. The cup and saucer is in mint condition. Just fabulous! Wish I had more room to add to my teacup collection, but no go. I had to have it when I spotted it in England last buying trip.

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Birds & Nest cup and saucer

I just had a great experience with an online source for English tea. We LOVE TyPhoo English black tea but always have difficulty finding local sources. When the family come to visit from England, there are usually boxes of TyPhoo in their luggage. So...I am always looking for a good online source and found one.

Teadog.com was great. I bought a large box online at a good price, paid with my credit card and they were shipped the next day and the tracking number says they will arrive today...3 days later. Brilliant!!! They have all sorts of different tea, so I'm a happy camper and looking forward to my next cuppa!!!

It's a beautiful Pacific Northwest day here in Sequim today...clouds, a few showers with lots of sun and in the 60s. Hope it's nice where you are! Let me know any good tea sources you have!

10th Anniversary Online Discount At Time Was Antiques

Happy 10th anniversary Online to

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We are celebrating for the month of May...our 1-th year online, with a 10% off orders over $50.00. Just use the coupon code 010 of 10th Anniversary to receive the discount which may be reused. Cool!!!!

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The oak tea caddy with the porcelain lining and EPNS silver plated fittings above was just added from my downsizing personal collection. The tea caddy has the most touching hand engraved message To My Old Pal Sid, And Vera From Wilf 1930. I just love it! Evokes dart players at the pub who play and drink their Guiness together and Sid is getting married so Wilf gives him a tea caddy. It is too cool!!!

Tea caddies were a regular part of every English household (we still are using 3 at the moment) and were as exxential as the American coffee maker. Their styles changed through the years and tell a history of the people and the culture of the country. Great collectibles and still very affordable.

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English Royalty Thimble Year Of 3 Kings

This is the coolest British Royal memorabilia thimble that I just acquired with a collection of royalty thimbles on our last English buying trip.

Made in 1986-1987, the bone china thimble by Fisbury commemorates a special year in English royal history. Between June of 1036 and June of 1937, there were 3 men annointed king.

King George V was on the throne at the start of 1936 but died in June. On his death, his oldest son was declared Edward VIII and everyone that all was well. However, before the coronation could take place, Edward VIII abdicated the throne so that he could marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Hence the 3rd king, George VI, Edward's younger brother inherited the throne and was crownded in June 1937. Actually, I think he was a MUCH better king than his playboy, Nazi sympathizing brother would ever had been.

So...there's a history lesson for the day. Cool, huh!

For more innformation click this link to the item:

3 English Kings Thimble

For other great British Royal Commemorative items, visit our home page and look for the English Royal Commemoratives category with sub categories for each of the royal family starting with Queen Victoria.

Today is the 1st real spring day for a bit. It was beautiful! My DH was out trimming bushes and I took a walk to look at the budding trees and spring bulbs. On the end of our street I could see all the way across the Strait Of San Juan De Fuca to Victoris, British Columbia Canada. A great view for a lovely day. Hope yours was a nice!

Hand Painted Pine Cone Butter Pat, Teabag Holder

I wanted to share this little hand painted porcelain dish. This is a butter pat and can be used as a teabag holder (because I have a lot of items for tea drinkers) and I think it's so cute. The butter pat was made by Wiesley China which was a part of Weissman Brothers, a US china firm that closed in 1957. They employed artists to hand paint their items, and this Pine Cones design was painted and signed by Barry. Don't know his last name, but they are cute! I also have 2 with a Dogwood Berries design that Barry did as well.

Ya gotta have a place for a tea infuser or teabag....no go for dumping it on the table. Besides, in a dish you may want to use it again for a second cup!

You can see this and others at Time Was Antiques. I have lots of teabag holders or caddies and quite a few butter pats which I tend to multi purpose around the house.

Hope all your gardens are springing with flowers and you didn't have too much rain on your Easter egg hunts. We were wet and windy. All our tulip leaves were flattened. But they have perked up today...just in time for another round of wind and rain tomorrow. As the weatherman said before our last storm came in last Fri. "You'll wake up tomorrow and think it's November again!". Hope it's nice in your area.

We went to the nursery today and picked up heather and ajuga to plant in a bare patch in the front garden, but as it's raining, we'll postpone until tomorrow. The arborist was across the street cleaning up the downed pine branches from the last storm. Hope it passes us by this time.

Spring floral teacups by Shelly anyone???

Okay...you know I love Shelley China, England and this is no exception. This cup and saucer is in the Low Oleander shape with embossed leaf pattern and has a pattern called Hedgerow. It fairly shouts SPRING!!! I love it. This pattern isn't often seen on this shape, so I think it's quite special. It came home with me from a recent buying trip because it grabbed me from across a room.....romantic indeed!!!!

Ever thought of a spring tea party for your friends? Get out your favorite flower patterned cups and saucers (they don't have to match, just be pretty) and make some spring flowers in a vase, tea sandwiches, shortbread with jam and spend a lovely afternoon in chat and admiration of the season. How often we need to socialize and relax and miss out because of our schedules???!!!

To see more Shelley China, this cup and saucer or more teacups and saucers, teapots of other English antiques and collectibles, visit Time Was Antiques.