Vinny

ok thank u all for ur time this has been vinny's hyperfixation corner i will probably be posting about this more as i clean all this stuff and actually get to use it for food and such

I FORGOT ABOUT MY GRAVY BOAT.

This is the only piece we have left of our Hutschenreuther set in the pattern Revere! This was my grandma’s party china so we had a double set, I believe close to 200 pieces but it’s been a long time since I counted and I never wrote it down. This backstamp was used from 1939-65, and apparently the leftmost backstamp is from Paul A. Straub & Co which is an American importer.
My guess is that the importers stamped the pattern number and name on it as well since it’s in the same thicker red inked style, which was very helpful for me as I didn’t have to scroll through replacements dot com looking at every hutschenreuther pattern trying to find a match (I have spent. So many hours. On replacements dot com.)
Anyway my cousin took this set after my grandma passed but I hung on to the gravy boat because it’s very special to me

and it holds my furry ears :3

This Reed & Barton set is supposed to have 5 pieces but I was never able to find the 5th one and the serving tray it came on seems to have gone the way of the rest of our china (chucked at the nearest consignment store without much care)
For some reason silverware gives me the most trouble when researching, I still haven’t been able to come up with a production date for these (silverware utensils helpfully have little symbols that manufacturers use to denote the date (which will be shown when I bring out the silverware utensils later hehe), but these don’t) and can only guess that these are silver plated based on listings online. But they’re still gorgeous and I love them!
These are labeled as the Reed & Barton Victorian collection # 6710, and once again there are mysterious additional numbers on the bottom that I’m guessing are production numbers but still can’t find any explanation online.
Once I’m finished with my much larger and more pressing tasks I wanna attempt to clean the tarnished pieces!

Oh fuck yeah time for GENUINE DEPRESSION GLASS, baby.
This is a set of Anchor Hocking crystal in the pattern Miss America. Truly no clue how my family got this and even less of a clue why we got in in clear instead of iconic depression glass pink.
This pattern was only produced from 1935-37 and is much rarer in the pink or green colorway, but still pretty cool.
I think sadly this is the last thing I have other than our silverware which I’ll have to find in the depths of storage, but it’s a very neat full set with lots of little tools and bits
Before the Great Expungement of our antiques we also had about 4 or 5 crystal punch bowl sets with cups and ladles, 4 full sets of crystal glasses, and a solid 10 or so random miscellaneous crystal pitchers sugar pots cake stands and plates. None of which I’ll be able to post about because I’ve both forgotten which pieces they were and didn’t take any pictures of them and this deeply saddens me. Take me to any thrift store and I’ll probably be able to find at least 1 piece of crystal in a pattern I recognize though

This Reed & Barton set is supposed to have 5 pieces but I was never able to find the 5th one and the serving tray it came on seems to have gone the way of the rest of our china (chucked at the nearest consignment store without much care)
For some reason silverware gives me the most trouble when researching, I still haven’t been able to come up with a production date for these (silverware utensils helpfully have little symbols that manufacturers use to denote the date (which will be shown when I bring out the silverware utensils later hehe), but these don’t) and can only guess that these are silver plated based on listings online. But they’re still gorgeous and I love them!
These are labeled as the Reed & Barton Victorian collection # 6710, and once again there are mysterious additional numbers on the bottom that I’m guessing are production numbers but still can’t find any explanation online.
Once I’m finished with my much larger and more pressing tasks I wanna attempt to clean the tarnished pieces!