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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 1047243, member: 111"]Hi - you're doing great in your posts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose I chould have mentioned that those pictures I posted were of the fish coffee set, the first with tray and coffee pot, the second of the tray with sugar and creamer, believe it's very unlikely that the blossom finial was ever used on that simple cylinder pot with its angular handle (would seem an incongruous combination to me). The coffee pot should be right around 8" tall, not including finial, and despite the side handle and high spout, believe it was almost certainly sold as a coffee pot, rather than chocolate pot - the right-angle handle and spout position were design choices, not uncommon on Scandinavian/Scandinavian-inspired and Modernist tea and/or coffee sets (the Three Crowns blossom motif coffee pot also has a high short spout). Posting a close-up of the fish finial that should show where your circular scratches came from:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]208377[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 1047243, member: 111"]Hi - you're doing great in your posts. Suppose I chould have mentioned that those pictures I posted were of the fish coffee set, the first with tray and coffee pot, the second of the tray with sugar and creamer, believe it's very unlikely that the blossom finial was ever used on that simple cylinder pot with its angular handle (would seem an incongruous combination to me). The coffee pot should be right around 8" tall, not including finial, and despite the side handle and high spout, believe it was almost certainly sold as a coffee pot, rather than chocolate pot - the right-angle handle and spout position were design choices, not uncommon on Scandinavian/Scandinavian-inspired and Modernist tea and/or coffee sets (the Three Crowns blossom motif coffee pot also has a high short spout). Posting a close-up of the fish finial that should show where your circular scratches came from: [ATTACH=full]208377[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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