These are my grandmother's dishes. The story is that they were a give away at the movie theater in Chicago were my mother is from. My mother and her 5 siblings wanted to give them to their mother as a gift. I have a complete set of 12: 12 plates, salad bowls, cups, saucers, dessert bowls and 12 of each of two smaller plates. There are also two platters, a gravy bowl, a covered dish and an oval serving dish. While I am sure they enjoyed the movies they saw, it must have taken even 6 children quite some time to earn all of this. Did they keep it a secret from their mother until they had them all? Did they have to save up the admission to the movie? I don't know. But I am struck by the devotion they had for their mother to stick with it. We don't have many things from either the Oberts or the Cushings to pass down, but that's okay. For one, it makes the few things we do have more precious. More importantly, it isn't the things that are precious at all - it is the stories connected with them.
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Gini, I'm glad you have these and have the story behind them. I have never seen them. I have a sugar and creamer from Mom that she got as a gift when she and dad got married.
I am actually trying to research them a little to flesh the story out. I found the pattern on replacements.com. They only get used once an year and I won't let anyone else touch them. On Enyart Rd. Mom had them in bushel baskets under the stairs and never used them. I always thought that was a shame. I don't know how I came across them, but I did and that's how I got the story. I can't remember exactly when Mom gave them to me - but I know it's been as long age as I've been back in Ohio. Other than a couple of pieces of costume jewelry and Dad's first communion misselette and now Mom's sewing machine, they are the only "things" of Mom & Dad I have.
They are beautiful!
Way cool story and family heirloom!!!
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