Laurie at Bargain Hunting with Laurie
is hosting a party to allow us to show off our favorite things.
I sure don't know how to choose a favorite thing, but I'll start with my great-grandmother's punch bowl. This was really, in my opinion, the best estate auction buy of all time. My great-grandmother bought it at an estate auction in the 1920s for a dollar! It was hand painted in the famous Pickard studio of Chicago. She once told me that there were also matching punch cups, but she didn't win the bid on those.
The painting of the currants and leaves with the gold tracery on the punch bowl is so exquisite, it takes my breath away each time I walk by it.
I'm now the fourth generation in my family to be the caretaker of this beauty! It is my absolute favorite of all of the dishes I own.
Please go by Laurie's to check out all of the other "Favorite Things".
is hosting a party to allow us to show off our favorite things.
I sure don't know how to choose a favorite thing, but I'll start with my great-grandmother's punch bowl. This was really, in my opinion, the best estate auction buy of all time. My great-grandmother bought it at an estate auction in the 1920s for a dollar! It was hand painted in the famous Pickard studio of Chicago. She once told me that there were also matching punch cups, but she didn't win the bid on those.
The painting of the currants and leaves with the gold tracery on the punch bowl is so exquisite, it takes my breath away each time I walk by it.
I'm now the fourth generation in my family to be the caretaker of this beauty! It is my absolute favorite of all of the dishes I own.Please go by Laurie's to check out all of the other "Favorite Things".
