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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 903272, member: 5833"]Just replied in the other thread, before seeing this. Really reassuring to have your approval.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lidded corn ware jar mentioned in the other post belonged to my grandmother & neither my mother nor her brother could remember a time when it was not on her kitchen counter. After she died & my grandfather decided to move to an apartment, the family gathered at the house ahead of the planned estate sale to distribute things my grandfather did not want to keep. When we got to the kitchen, my mother asked, Who wants that thing?, indicating the jar. No one spoke up. I went over to have a closer look & said that for what it was, it seemed extremely well done to me & I just couldn't imagine it leaving the family when none of us could remember a time it wasn't there. The workmanship is clearly superior to that on most other pieces I have or have seen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 903272, member: 5833"]Just replied in the other thread, before seeing this. Really reassuring to have your approval. The lidded corn ware jar mentioned in the other post belonged to my grandmother & neither my mother nor her brother could remember a time when it was not on her kitchen counter. After she died & my grandfather decided to move to an apartment, the family gathered at the house ahead of the planned estate sale to distribute things my grandfather did not want to keep. When we got to the kitchen, my mother asked, Who wants that thing?, indicating the jar. No one spoke up. I went over to have a closer look & said that for what it was, it seemed extremely well done to me & I just couldn't imagine it leaving the family when none of us could remember a time it wasn't there. The workmanship is clearly superior to that on most other pieces I have or have seen.[/QUOTE]
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