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This is a detail of the cut glass crystal vase Stu's family gave us on our wedding day.
It’s funny how the world works sometimes. My partner has been friends with a chap for many years who is a confirmed old bachelor from a good family: but with no children, he is the last of this distinguished family line. With only a distant cousin and even more distant godson for family, my partner’s friend asked my partner to be the executer of his will. When he visited us to ask this of my partner, our friend and I chatted as we usually do about antiques and art, in particular Art Deco, which is a shared love of ours. I showed him some rather lovely Shelley Art Deco trios I had acquired recently. He then said that this was the perfect segway to something he wanted to ask me. He wanted to know whether I would be interested in having his parents’ Shelley Art Deco tea set (a wedding gift when they married in 1933) as part of the terms of his will. He wanted it to go to a person who would love it and cherish it. I was so flattered to be asked. Thus, when my partner and I visited him a week later at his house, our friend had washed and put out the set for me to look over to confirm whether I wanted it. It was a gorgeous Deco design of hand painted stripes in white, grey and that wonderful bright green we associate with the Art Deco era. Consisting of six cups, saucers and cake plates, a milk jug, sugar bowl and larger cake plate, the set was in perfect condition, gleaming and bright as the day it was gifted originally. I said I would love it! Then he told me that I may a well enjoy my inheritance now, and he gave me the set to bring home that very evening!
This is a teacup and saucer from that set. The pieces are made of the finest and most delicate bone china: so fine you can clearly see the shadow of your hand behind it when you hold it to the light. Shelley were famous for the delicacy of their porcelain, and it is why pieces are so prized by collectors, because they are so easily broken, even if one is gentle with them. The distinctive shape of the cup with its circular handle is registered as shape number 781613 which is classified as a Regency shape which applied to cups, coffee pots and milk jugs and was registered in 1933 – the year our friend’s parents were married. Each piece from the set has a hand painted “W 1233” on the bottom in red paint, which identifies the pattern number and possibly the pattern designer, but to date I can find nothing about it, and I have never seen a pattern quite like this. Thus, the set is keeping some of its origins a secret. Maybe one day I will find out more. Each piece has been entirely hand painted, which is most unusual even for a brand like Shelley, and even though it is nearing its centenary year, this cup and saucer look contemporary enough to slip into a fashionable modern interior of today.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 19th of July is "cup & saucer", and whilst I have many lovely cups and saucers in my collections of china, I felt that these rater special pieces deserved a showing for this week’s theme. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
A few weeks before Christmas, a very dear Flickr friend of mine in America sent me a wonderful Christmas parcel full of lots of lovely presents, including a set of six Sheffield Steel knives from the early 1950s with porcelain handles painted in pink and hand decorated and gilded. She hoped that they might look good on my Christmas table, which they would have since the floral arrangement I made for my centrepiece this year consisted of pink roses. What my friend did not count on was the backlog of Christmas parcels in the post. Sadly, they did not arrive until after New Year, when I again had a floral centrepiece of pink roses in three different shades and pink carnations.
Well, things happen for a reason. The day they arrived in the post was also the day that I discovered that the theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 20th of January is "cutlery"! I immediately knew which cutlery I was going to photograph. I went and pulled out my antique linen that I set the table with for formal occasions, plucked a few remaining blooms from my New Year centrepiece that were still good and used them to accessorise the knives as I photographed them. My friend sent me these knives because she felt that they would give me joy to use them on my table, and give her joy to see me use them, and now she can see them in all their glory as they might have been! I dedicate this photo to my very dear friend, and I hope that she likes my photograph of them. I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
These Sheffield Steel knives are just one set of several my American friend has in various colours including blue and green (her favourite colour). The original set that inspired her to collect these style of knives were baby blue ones that were gifts on her parents’ wedding registry back in the early 1950s. One day, she found a knife in the buffet drawers just like the blue ones, only with a pink handle. She asked her beautiful Mother, who told her that the set was also made in pink and someone sent a pink knife in error as a wedding gift.
43:52 Get wet. Take a photograph in the rain using the elements of the situation to your visual advantage.
Well, I had my 'get wet' shot long ago, but I went and formatted the card before taking it off !! 'doh'
I got tired of waiting for another opportunity, so I created one !!
This was given to me as a wedding gift.....21 years ago.....and boy o boy have we weathered some storms !!
'bear-ly' hanging in there !!
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....& for teddy bear Tuesday =D
HTBT
... und mein Zielfoto. Schon vor dem Besuch der Kolonie der Bienenfresser hoffte ich ein bestimmtes Foto schießen zu können.
Bienenfresser besiegeln ihre Saison-Partnerschaft mit der Übergabe eines Nahrungsgeschenks an den zukünftigen Partner. Nimmt sie das Geschenk an, ist die Hochzeit besiegelt.
The wedding present and my target photo. Even before visiting the colony of bee-eaters, I hoped to take a particular photo.
Bee-eaters seal their seasonal partnership by handing over a gift of food to their future partner. If she accepts the gift, the marriage is sealed.
Wedding bus VG 10 with all the bells & whistles to Lucan on an evening 25A.
Broadstone based Wright Gemini's VG 9 & 10 were delivered in wedding bus livery, generally operating peak time xpresso routes, along with N4 additional services as above.
All go on Aston Quay heading for Lucan, in the background Conyngham Road ALX400, AX 406 is about to set off for the lessor known Dodsboro, while taking the lead, Broadstone based wedding bus VG 9 operates the 25A service to the busier Esker part of Lucan.
Wedding gift for my cousin Johnny and his new bride Laura, who are getting hitched in Chicago on Saturday. Johnny is a huge fan of Wyoming, Jackson Hole, the Grand Tetons, skiing, etc.
A western boy at heart.
Painted from a 1950s postcard in my collection: "Snake River through the Grand Teton National Park."
Following the withdrawl from private hire & in particualr wedding bus hire, the wedding adframes were replaced with traditional advertisements pending respray into traditional Dublin Bus colours.
It was truely the end of "Wedding Bus " - thinking back to the very start when KD366 first appeared in bridal white & every handrail wrapped in floral trim.
Clontarf Enviro400 EV 88, one of two in the garage, delivered in wedding bus format is seen at its Portmarnock terminus for route 42, with a Just Eat ad replacing the wedding bells.
Clontarf Garage AV 416 in pristine condition on route 32A to Malahide.
Certain trips on routes 32 & 32B to Portmarnock are extended to Malahide, offering connections with radial route 102 to Dublin Airport.
Route 32A offers spectacular views along the Coast Road in Portmarnock, all the way to Malahide. You know your out in the countryside when the stage points are still listed with some romantically old names such as The Farm & Monks Meadow.
The streets were cleared for this shot of wedding bus AV 416, which was joined with similar AV 417 at Clontarf in wedding format.
Photo July 2007.
Another of the wedding gifts that my Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather received. Circa 1900.
The clock is made of china and no longer works but I have found a clock maker in the area so will be taking it over to see if it can be restored to a working clock.
It chimed on the hour and half hour when it did work roughly in the 1960's early 70's.
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Silver-plated ware - useless gifts nobody later will use for decades.Too homely for words.
Diese wunderschönen MugRugs haben mein Mann und ich von den fleißigen Modern Cologne Quiltern zur Hochzeit geschenkt bekommen und wir haben uns sehr darüber gefreut. Jetzt finden sie nach und nach in der WOhnung ihren Platz.
Here comes the bride on the 39 to Ongar.
Dublin Bus AXL400 fleet number AV 447 in special wedding bus livery, for that special day, but just today, its a 39.
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Wedding/Christening gifts.
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Dublin Bus Broadstone Garage RV 630, this really was the garage pet at the time, given its special purpose as a wedding bus, used for those special days, so had to be kept pristine & away from the ravages of certain routes, usually confined to the expresso 50X.
From time to time, it did wander, captured above on cross city route 123 between Marino & Drimnagh, 15th May 2004.
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I got married yesterday, and gave this photo to my fiancee/wife as a wedding present. Those are our wedding bands, set against The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (specifically, Romeo and Juliet).
I got it printed at 20x30 on metallic paper, framed and double-matted, and she loved it. We had it on display at the wedding at the entrance to the reception.
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these are stars from the night sky on the night of a wedding, and were used as creative bridesmaid pieces.
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made me happy to see them all together (but kinda difficult to photograph yourself holding 5 little embroideries).
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