Collector's luck; or, A repository of pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the household furniture and ornaments of olden time.. (1919)
Carrick, Alice Van Leer, 1875- · Boston, The Atlantic monthly press · leaf 54
he sameshape and size as the dark-blue Cadmus design,which a dealer had just told me was worth twenty-five dollars. But that these odd little glass plates,which our prudent grandmothers used to set theircups in when they drank their tea from the saucers,had any particular value, I was utterly… … The two sugar bowls were thrown in with a five-cent teacup at an auction.Several of the other pieces show classic decoration.
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