Look What Followed Me Home

So two days ago, my friend Emily and I
motored south to Somerville in New Jersey, where there is an
antiques mall in a former Woolworth's downtown.  

We did a slow lap of the first floor of Somerville Center Antiques and then, exhausted with the sensory overload, went next door to the Phoenix Diner where the food is what good New York area coffee shop food should be.

Meaning the cole slaw was great.   Olympic caliber.

I'd say the onion rings were also outstanding, but that would mean admitting I'd had some.

After lunch, we plunged back into the fray.  Yes, we are fearless in our quest for the quirky.

A lap around the lower level, then another look-see on the main floor.

Where I found these:

  A sugar and creamer set.

Lustreware.  Japan.  Petite.

 And about as cute as cute gets.

Then, not far away, beneath a pile of nicely laundered doilies and dresser scarves, this peeked out:

A cross-stitch embroidered linen tablecloth.

Orange embroidery.  Ten bucks, in great shape.

Come to Mama!

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And today, the cloth and the lustreware are teaming up with

the famous Johnson Brothers for a Harvest Time Tablesetting.  Now let me see . . . .

It's a cloudy-drizzly-poopy day, so we'll do this in the sunroom, where it is brighter.

First, on goes the cloth.  Duh.

Then it's the Johnson Brothers Fresh Fruit china.  A Craigslist uber-bargain.

Dinner plate.

Salad plate.

Cup and saucer?  Of course!

Otherwise why would we have a sugar and creamer?

Wine glass?  What else but a sturdy green stem?

This is one of our set of Roemer wine glasses (can't make an umlaut),

used in Germany for Rhine wines.  Our glasses were made in France.  We are such rebels.

 

Flatware -- my still-new Reed and Barton Williamsburg Royal Scroll.

Salt and Pepper -- ceramic fruits.

A few harvest-y tchotchkes jazz up the table and

give us something to look at while we're waiting for real food to show up.

That may be a long wait.

 Although -- did you spot some round orange marble-y looking things

scattered on the tabletop in a few of the pictures?

They  are pumpkin flavored malted milk balls, from The Candyman out on Long Island.

Thank you, Doris and Kirby!

 So there is something to eat.

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  What did Emily get on our trip? you ask.

Emily spotted something she thought she wanted to get for her husband,

but when we went back to find it -- we couldn't.

Lesson learned:  In an antiques mall, tie helium balloons onto the things you want

a second look at, or just take them with you on the first go-round.

I never did find that brown Aesthetic pattern Staffordshire I was first eyeballing . . . .

I hope it found a good home.  -- Cass

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