On this past Sunday during her barn sale, I leafed through the pages, looked at the article on antique and vintage turkey platters and with such confidence I told her "Oh I have this one and I have this one". Later that day I actually read how much these platters were going for...over $400.
By now I'm so excited I wanted to go home and dig out my platters from their safe hiding spots. I'm thinking about how I have such good taste and I really know my stuff. By the time I pack up after the sale and go home and put things away and clean up the house, I have to tell my husband about this article and how I have such good taste and I really know my stuff. Hubby is not one to take that at face value so as he is holding the magazine he says "SHOW ME".
I dig through one dresser and amongst piles of linens I pull out platter #1 - no match. I dig through dresser #2 and again - no match.
He even turns the platters over to check to see if it is marked - I've created a monster. I then have to pull up a chair to stand on to get the other 4 platters that are on top of the cabinet over the stove - remember I have the smallest kitchen in the world
- again no matches.
So it turns out that I don't have platters that are worth much more than the few dollars that I paid for them, but I still think I know some stuff. Wait until I show you my vintage turkey salt & pepper shakers and turkey planter. I'll leave those until later.
You know...I just might write to Country Living to tell them all about it.
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No matter what they're worth, I think they're great. And if it makes you feel any better, this kind of thing happens to me all the time. I mean ALL the time.
I love your turkey platters. It doesn't matter if they aren't the expensive ones from Country Living...I was inspired so I dug out the one my mother gave me years ago. It's been sitting in the bottom of my pantry....bad place to keep a turkey platter from 1950.....a big chunk had broken off of it..the worse part... I can't find the piece that broke off....Now that's something that really has no value!
I love your paltters. I would SO love to have one myself. So, who cares if they aren't worth money, they're worth the smiles at Thanksgiving.
Hi! I, too, have a couple of turkey platters. I saw that article, too, but I haven't checked my platters! Now, I'll have to do it! I love yours, tho, I don't care what your DH says - there are some things that are priceless! :-) Vickie
Well that just had me giggling because I have thought the same thing of my treasures...only to find out they are worth exactly what I paid! Oh well, they are all (including my turkey platter) priceless to me :)
Hugs,
Dena
I love your platters...and I do the same thing. I think things match and are worth something...NOT!!
Hugz,
Michele
don't you just hate that when that happens?
I to saw a platter similar to mine in the Country Living. It pictures the Tom turkey and smaller hen beside a palm tree. It is a large blue and white with orange and yellowish brown colorings. Mark on the back is NIKKO STONECHINA with the word Japan within a pagoda..and also"hand painted"...can anyone tell me more?
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