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<p>[QUOTE="Van_Poperin, post: 3500441, member: 16501"]Hello all,</p><p><br /></p><p>As I am moving, a few things are going into storage or being sold. My mother asked to see anything I wasn’t sure about, and flagged this mug.</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased it from a charity shop to hold the pens on my desk and never gave it a second thought, but - as forget-me-nots have symbolic meaning - I now wonder: do the leaves below it also? Of course plants and herbs go in and out of fashion, and the meaning changes too, so I hoped someone here might recognise the style and be able to identify where/when it was made, which might explain the motif. My mother thinks that the blue flowers are for remembering a lost loved one, and I think they are more romantically aimed at the living. Does the second set of leaves decide it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: cannot seem to get rid of the last image. Hmm. Never mind, you can ignore it as necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]304378[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]304379[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]304380[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Van_Poperin, post: 3500441, member: 16501"]Hello all, As I am moving, a few things are going into storage or being sold. My mother asked to see anything I wasn’t sure about, and flagged this mug. I purchased it from a charity shop to hold the pens on my desk and never gave it a second thought, but - as forget-me-nots have symbolic meaning - I now wonder: do the leaves below it also? Of course plants and herbs go in and out of fashion, and the meaning changes too, so I hoped someone here might recognise the style and be able to identify where/when it was made, which might explain the motif. My mother thinks that the blue flowers are for remembering a lost loved one, and I think they are more romantically aimed at the living. Does the second set of leaves decide it? Edit: cannot seem to get rid of the last image. Hmm. Never mind, you can ignore it as necessary. [ATTACH=full]304378[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]304379[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]304380[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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