Of Teapots and Treasures . . .

Friend Shirley Ann and I were out and about yesterday.

Visiting some of our favorite haunts in her little town

And this old teapot came home with me

It's white with gold trim

And it was $5.00

And it looked to me to be very very old

Now, I don't really collect teapots!

But I do have a few!

And I use them!

It joins

This lovely pot

Also white with gold trim

Made from Old Paris porcelain

Most Old Paris was made from 1850 to 1870

And I date this tea pot to around the Civil War

Perhaps around the time that our Fort got decommissioned!

And it's not just a teapot

But a cream and sugar

And tea cups and saucers (those lovely deep saucers)

And breakfast cups and saucers (again, lovely deep saucers)

And a few plates and an odd big bowl!

I found it here -- in our little town

For a reasonable sum

And ever since I visited Natchez and heard about "Old Paris", I've wanted to own some.

And was so glad to find such a lovely set!

And this little pot

In my beloved blue and white.

It came with a creamer and sugar

and I found it at an Estate Sale in Independence

In a very old house that I longed admired

Admired since childhood, actually!

This pot is a common pattern (and I have a couple of salad plates in this pattern as well, picked up here and there) that dates to the early 19th century.

I couldn't believe my luck that this teapot, creamer and sugar were so reasonably priced and still there!

My three old teapots lined up on the dining room table

Notice the new pot and the blue and white one are similar in shape

While the "later" one -- the Old Paris is a different shape -- more round without the "angles" of the other two.

But what makes this teapot, the new one

So special

Is what I found inside . . .

This note: which reads:

Samuel Eddy married June 1777

Great grandfather Eddy's

Wedding china

                  222 years

December 1949

It's written on back of an envelope with a 2 cent stamp

(which would indicate that it was, indeed, written in 1949)

addressed to:

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eddy

Potter's Hatchery

Girard, Kansas

Now, I do hope Mr. Frank Eddy was better at raising chickens that he was in math for 1777 to 1949 is not 222 years!   but rather 172 years!

However, in 2015, it is over 222 years -- in fact, 238 years since

Samuel Eddy married and received this teapot as a wedding gift!

Now, I do know that family history can get confusing 

And stories passed down are not always the truth.

I've looked on line to see what I could find as to

typical china shapes during the Revolutionary War

but couldn't really find anything.

Due to the fact that this teapot and the blue and white one which I know dates to the first part of the 19th century are so similar, I am wondering, perhaps, if it was made later

And was a 25th Wedding Anniversary gift and not the wedding china!

I do know one thing -- it is definitely old!

But whether it does, indeed date to the Revolutionary War

or is a bit later,

that note, penned by Mr. Frank will remain with the teapot

as long as I'm it's custodian.

Will I drink tea out of it?

I'm not sure

But it is a treasure of Linderhof!