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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 583164, member: 111"]The Easter before I turned ten, a Peacock's ad in the paper showed an assortment of Limoges egg boxes with a tiny bottle of L'Air du Temps inside, shared it with my Mom and on Easter Day there was one in my basket. The next year there was no basket, but another porcelain egg, over the next 40+ years, until the tradition became one of those things that left her mind, she gave me a fancy egg of some type every Easter, along with a few extras thrown in when the mood struck her, and I'd pick one up myself on occasion - so I have lots of eggs, and include Easter spoons in my collection. Recently added this uncommon little piece (4-3/8" long), a tiny mother of pearl chick tucked into the egg finial and an unusual flat round MOP bowl (bon-bon spoon?), the back engraved with a fern motif - it retains a bit of its gilding and is marked only 'Sterling', though I have seen the same twist-stem and flange on the same shape bowl, bearing a Webster Company mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]174978[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]174980[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]174981[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 583164, member: 111"]The Easter before I turned ten, a Peacock's ad in the paper showed an assortment of Limoges egg boxes with a tiny bottle of L'Air du Temps inside, shared it with my Mom and on Easter Day there was one in my basket. The next year there was no basket, but another porcelain egg, over the next 40+ years, until the tradition became one of those things that left her mind, she gave me a fancy egg of some type every Easter, along with a few extras thrown in when the mood struck her, and I'd pick one up myself on occasion - so I have lots of eggs, and include Easter spoons in my collection. Recently added this uncommon little piece (4-3/8" long), a tiny mother of pearl chick tucked into the egg finial and an unusual flat round MOP bowl (bon-bon spoon?), the back engraved with a fern motif - it retains a bit of its gilding and is marked only 'Sterling', though I have seen the same twist-stem and flange on the same shape bowl, bearing a Webster Company mark. [ATTACH=full]174978[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]174980[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]174981[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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