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More and More Egg Cups

March 23, 2026 at 8:41 am by Claudia

First off, a bit about Don. He deleted his old YouTube channel (because he does things like that) and has started a new one. The back story: the other day, a song just ‘came’ to him. He wrote it, recorded it in one take, and posted it on Facebook. It has had an amazing reaction, from all sorts of people, including me. I reposted his post to my feed and the raves continued.

Anyway. I love this song. It is powerful in its simplicity. Here is the link to his YouTube channel. And here is a link to a free download. It’s called “I am a Rocket.” I hope you like it.

He amazes me.

Now, back to egg cups.

On the left: a chicken pulling a cart. This one has the original sticker on it, “Made in California.” Love this color combination.

In the middle: a goose pulling a cart. Beautiful, in a lustreware finish.

On the right: an official Carleton Walking Ware egg cup. From England.

Three enchanting egg cups:

On the left, a bunny rabbit outside his cottage home. Another “window” egg cup. I love these colors.

In the middle: one that I found last year, around the same time I was posting the egg cup tour. It’s marked Japan and it’s another variation of the bunny rabbit with a cottage home. This one is much bigger than the first, as you can see. It’s beautifully painted and has a lot more detail. Made in Japan.

On the right: one of my favorites – two rabbits holding up an egg cup. Another find during my first few months of collecting.

I think we’re about to move into non-figural egg cups on Wednesday.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

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More of the Tour

March 21, 2026 at 8:41 am by Claudia

I finally got some sleep last night. The past two days were really hard to get through. It rained yesterday and it’s very foggy today but I heard the peepers again last night. It’s so charming, they peep and the bullfrog responds. So we hear high notes and very low notes and it’s magical.

On the left, from Cottage Ware in England, a little house.

An egg cup with its own saucer that I found at the flea market in Paris.

From my friend Mary in England. It’s from Devon and it’s called Devon Ware. I love this one so much!

On the right, two very old egg cups marked Germany. Bluebirds. I love anything with a bluebird so I snapped these up.

On the left, my most expensive egg cup – but really, it’s priceless. Don bought it for me in Paris.  It’s tiny and quite beautiful. Very Art Nouveau in design.

There are more figurals coming but I have to take some photos this weekend. Because I’ve done these tours so many times, some photos have repeats of cups I’ve already shown, so I’m going to sort through what I have and haven’t shown.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

 

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Friday: Egg Cups

March 20, 2026 at 9:07 am by Claudia

More egg cups:

A leaping bunny.

Sorry for the repeat, I just wrote about this cup in the previous post.

Two adorable chicks playing on a teeter-totter just outside their house – another of the window egge cups.

A bunny dressed in orange and blue holding up an egg cup.

A gentleman egg cup. This is a tall egg cup. In some versions of this egg cup, there are holes in the head that enable it to function as a salter. Mine doesn’t have them. Also, he’s supposed to be holding a walking stick, but that was missing when I purchased it.

A beautiful goose egg cup from France. I found it in a local shop and I was amazed that it hadn’t been damaged.

A little cherub holding an egg cup. Love this one.

I’m running a little late after my second night of not enough sleep.

Let me know if you’re still interested in seeing the egg cups – there were only two comments on Wednesday.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

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