Oh, Spring, you are slow in making your presence known. Let’s kick it up a notch, shall we? I need warmer temperatures and sunny days, okay?
I do see buds on the lilac and the daffodils are ready to bloom, so there’s that. A good sign.
Thank you for all of your kind comments on Don’s song. If you’re reading this and missed it, check Monday’s post for the link.
Okay. More egg cups.
Here are we are with the last of the figurals (don’t worry, I’ll be sharing the more traditional cups as well.)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!
You all know the story by now. I’ll give you the condensed version. These are marked ©1939 Walt Disney Studios. They were probably for sale during the 40s and 50s. I also know they were the prize in some cereal boxes – in Canada, I believe. When I first started collecting, I purchased a book on egg cups that has been invaluable over the years. That’s where I first read about them, as well as how difficult they are to find. Pre-eBay, these went for hundreds of dollars each because they were so hard to source. My friend Nels, who passed away a few years ago, collected for years and he told me that he paid a quite a bit of money for his 8 cups. He was understandably frustrated that he would never recoup what he paid for them. It took me, I think, 17 years to find all of them. That’s the part of collecting I love – patiently waiting and watching. Anyway, at first they were too expensive, but the prices eventually came down. Even so, I paid $35 for one cup and the rest were between $50 – $75. Doc, Dopey, and Bashful were my first finds and the collection held at 3 for several years. Next came Grumpy. Then I found Sneezy, Happy, and Snow White via a collector in Orillia, Ontario – my mother’s hometown. Then a few years later, I finally found Sleepy.
I love , love, love these cups. They’re charming, they remind me of my childhood, and they’re whimsical, to boot.
Now, we move on to more traditional egg cups. These are tall double transferware egg cups.
On the left – one of my very first acquisitions, a brown transferware egg cup by Mason’s Vista in England.
Center – a flow blue egg cup.
On the right – red transferware by Johnson Bros. in England.
On the left an egg cup from France that I found in San Diego when I was coaching the Summer Shakespeare Festival. The flowers are in my favorite combination of pink and aqua.
On the right, a cup I found in a local antique store. I have no idea who the maker was, but I really love it. It reminds me of Clarice Cliff designs. It has a lot of crazing, which just makes it better in my opinion.
More on Friday.
Stay safe.
Happy Wednesday.
