Easter is less than a week away and I am aware that I haven’t done any egg cup posts. The truth is, I don’t have a whole lot of energy for taking that on, but I will highlight them in groups. For those of you who are newer readers of the blog, I collect egg cups. I have a rather large collection now, my favorites being figural egg cups – the kind with little bunnies and chicks and dogs and pigs. While I’m sure some of the figurals were used, I suspect they were meant as gifts to display.
Though, now that I think of it, I distinctly remember using this egg cup, given to me as a child by my godparents:
This was one of a series of egg cups that were made for Fanny Farmer. They came as a gift, with candy inside the cup. I held onto this cup for years and years (let’s face it: and years) until one day I read an article in Martha Stewart Living about collecting egg cups. The lead photo in the article showed several egg cups and one of them was exactly like mine!
Bingo. I’m a collector at heart and after reading the article, I was hooked. eBay hadn’t been in existence all that long but it was a treasure trove of figural egg cups. I found myself in more than one middle-of-the-night bidding war. The good figurals are much harder to find nowadays.
Side note: After we moved east in 2001, and I had some spare time on my hands, I discovered two of my favorite things to collect: egg cups and McCoy Pottery. I blame Martha Stewart for both. And my neighbor, who had a great collection of McCoy that I lusted after.
Anyway.
The shelves in the first photo contain some traditional egg cups, a few transferware egg cups – one of them very old ironstone, egg cups from Prague, which Don brought back home after filming there, figural egg cups, including two ‘Walking Ware’ egg cups (the ones with shoes), and another Fanny Farmer egg cup, the one on the left on the second shelf. That egg cup is quite heavy and was made for Fanny Farmer by…wait for it…McCoy Pottery. The words “Fanny Farmer” are on the side of the egg cup.
When I first began collecting, I found that shelf you see in the first picture and it contained all my egg cups. Now, they are scattered all over the house. On the mantel right above my desk, on the bookshelves in the den, in various china cabinets and on a little hanging shelf in the den. I’ll share them with you in groups, and I won’t go into too much detail, unless you want me to.
There are many times I wish I had more space here and one of the reasons is that I have a secret desire to find one big piece that would hold all my egg cups. Wouldn’t that be neat?
If you have any questions about egg cups in general or a particular egg cup, feel free to ask in the comments.
This particular bug seems to fluctuate – yesterday I felt much better, today, not so much. It’s working its way out of my system, though.
Begone, foul bug!
Happy Monday.
