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I watched Scrooge with Alastair Sim and took note as Mrs. Cratchit wiped a "stapled plate".

A nice detail that few would ever notice.

 

We used to get those all the time at the auction house. Typically Chinese - sometimes a nice Meissen piece.

 

Great version of that story. Only one I will watch.

 

Lovely detail. Emphasizing the family's thrift and poverty. Likely missed by a modern viewer.

Debora

 

I love stapled ceramics, it shows the love and good craftmanship.

 

What a perfect detail. I'll have to remember that one.

 

Great eye, you bring online antique shopping to a new level.

 

That's my favorite Christmas Movie. Alistair Sim was the best scrooge EVER!
Cheers to you for noticing that detail. I will look for it when I watch it this year.

 

Cool detail! Eagle eye, you!

 

I have a giant cut lead crystal comport. Staple repaired.

It was given to me by a seller at a car boot sale, who reckoned he couldn’t sell it, but hated the idea of junking it.

 

great observation, thats a lovely touch most wouldn't have even noticed

i love a christmas carol, and probably seen them all, think my favourite is the brilliant michael horden version, with an extremely spooky john le mesurier

 

That many staples means less poverty than someone absolutely loved that plate. Staple repairs were $$$ and it wasn't worth it to repair lesser porcelains or pottery. Cheaper to buy a new plate, by a lot. To me it means the plate meant something to whoever had the repair done that was worth more than the plate itself. It may have been meant to say Poverty in the film.

 

Wow, amazing that you noticed the staple repair!!!

This is one I used to have shown in a earlier thread
http://www.antiquers.com/threads/interesting-repairs-clever-fixes-and-repurposing.2548/

 

I saw Patrick Stewart do a solo Carol at the Old Vic some years ago. Fabulous.

There was an astonishingly good modern rework with Ross Kemp. I’ve just googled and it was almost twenty five years ago, which is terrifying.

 

i saw an interview with patrick stewart once, and before he was the wonderfully bald actor he is now, if you can believe it, he used to have a comb over, untill his friends held him down and shaved it off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!, never looked back

best example of tough love i've ever heard of !!!!!!!

 

Charlie, Sister Wendy rules!

 

amen

 

Sir Michael Caine is my Scrooge, but I also enjoyed Sir Pat Stew's audio version of the book.

I will make notes for other versions to try!

 

In an odd way, I like the Muppet version.

 

More odd not to like it. It is amazing.