Harvest Plates

Image 1: Golden Crown Bavaria Harvest plates detail

Today I am making a Thanksgiving photo mosaic from a set of plates I got at a recent estate sale. I like the colors on the plates, which I bought because it rounded out my fall plate collection.

Image 2: Golden Crown Bavaria Harvest plate detail

Click on the image above to see it larger.  Look at how the ink was put down as dots and lines art.  I like the detail. 

Image 3: Golden Crown Bavaria Harvest plate

The plates are labeled on the back "Golden Crown, E&R; Bavaria Germany".  The date on the label is 1886, which I think is the date E&R was founded.  Quick internet research revealed that the E&R stands for Ebeling and Reuss of Pennsylvania. 

The internet indicates Ebeling and Reuss started using the blue stamp possibly in 1955.  My plates probably were manufactured in 1955-1960 in Germany at the Carl Schumann factory.  The Carl Schumann factory closed in 1994.

The plates are 7.75 inches in diameter with a .25 inch band of gold on the edge.  The colors glow.  The plates in my set (I have 7 different designs) come from the Orchard and Harvest series.  



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Welsh Dresser Thanksgiving china display

Here is my Thanksgiving display of china on my hutch.  What's funny to me is that I got 14 of the fruit/harvest plates, and 5 pieces of the brown transfer ware china within the last 2 months.  :)   Getting the hutch has given me an excuse to expand  my china collection.  Purchasing one thing can lead to more... 

Golden Crown Bavarian Orchard china plate

The small (7.5 inch) gold rimmed china plates I got over the weekend at an estate sale.  (9 plates for $24 - I didn't want to risk waiting for the 1/2 price sale the next day.)  The plates are not my usual style, but now I like them so much I might hang them in the kitchen when I decorate the hutch for Christmas. 

Brown transfer ware

Some of this china was also displayed in my October/Halloween hutch display.

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The Blog 'Nancy's Daily Dish' has a good informative post on Transfer ware, and a great post on How Transfer ware is made.  I consider these to be two excellent resources on transfer ware. 

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