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Aug 05 2007

Someone is Looking for Your Old China

Published by Jennifer under China Sets

Like many baby boomers, Sarah Vick and her husband decided to downsize to a smaller home after her two sons went off to college. When they started sorting through their belongings, Vick realized she had 22 sets of china. Some she’d bought herself, while others had been inherited from her mother, grandmother and aunts.
“I was [...]

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Jul 06 2007

Quest For Replacement China Awakens Family Memories

Published by Jennifer under China Sets

(ARA) – Merry Anderson knows that a set of dishes is more than something to grace the table on special occassions — it can be a link to a family’s history and heritage.
Anderson explains, “Sometime in the late 1920s or early 1930s, my grandmother, Florence Herbst, bought six Mayflower dinner plates, intending it as the [...]

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