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<p>[QUOTE="morgen94, post: 3603469, member: 217"]I have a feeling I told this story here before, but while at an antiques show several years ago, I stopped to look at a large display of vintage and antique aprons. We were planning a small exhibition on food/kitchen/cooking items in our tiny museum (aprons strung along a clothesline above our heads there, flapping when the A/C went on) and for later addition to my collection, as it had no relevance to the museum collection. I finally settled on a sweet apron with many patches, as I marveled that someone would spend so much time patching this most humble, much-loved apron. The seller came over and was dumbfounded that I wanted that apron and kept trying to sell me a pristine one, but I refused and said the more interesting story was in the patched one. That is what I see in this jug and in the story of your stapled plate...a much more interesting story. Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="morgen94, post: 3603469, member: 217"]I have a feeling I told this story here before, but while at an antiques show several years ago, I stopped to look at a large display of vintage and antique aprons. We were planning a small exhibition on food/kitchen/cooking items in our tiny museum (aprons strung along a clothesline above our heads there, flapping when the A/C went on) and for later addition to my collection, as it had no relevance to the museum collection. I finally settled on a sweet apron with many patches, as I marveled that someone would spend so much time patching this most humble, much-loved apron. The seller came over and was dumbfounded that I wanted that apron and kept trying to sell me a pristine one, but I refused and said the more interesting story was in the patched one. That is what I see in this jug and in the story of your stapled plate...a much more interesting story. Thanks![/QUOTE]
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