Antique of the week

This is my chocolate set.  i love it.

It is one of the few antiques that i have bought for myself in the past 10 years.  With all of the family pieces i have, i haven't had a lot of reasons to buy any more.  But this, i couldn't resist.  i have a pretty short list, a mental list, of antiques that i want and a chocolate set was one of them.  It all started when we dismantled my Aunt Sara's estate.  In her will, she left her chocolate set to my cousin Edith.  It had previously belonged to Sara's sister, Mary Lee.  The chocolate set was packed up for Edith before i really got a chance to look at it and, as a young lover of antiques, that bothered me LOL  So, i was determined from then on that one day i would have my own chocolate set.

Every time we went antiquing, i always had my eyes on the look out for the perfect one for me.  i never found it.  And, if i did find one i liked, it usually was too expensive...especially to a young teenage boy :)  When Aunt Billie died, Grandmother got hers and that eventually went to my Aunt Jan.  But, i was not heart broken because hers wasn't the style i wanted.  Anyway, about 5 years ago i was doing my usual online browsing of antiques and collectibles on Ebay and ran across this set.  i immediately fell in love with it.  It was exactly what i had been looking for.  Decorated in gold and green, it had a pot and six cups and saucers.  Nippon.  Now, i don't usually bid for things like this on ebay because you never know how authentic some of their antiques are but i decided i would bid anyway.  i walked away from Ebay until after the auction.  i had set my bid and that was that.  Fate would just play its course.  After a week, i found out that i had won the chocolate set.  The next week it arrived through the mail!  i was thrilled and it was exactly as promised.

i have placed it several places around the living room.  First on the buffet, then on top of the book case.  But, i think it's found its home on top of my china cabinet.  And who knows, maybe one day i will actually make some homemade hot chocolate and use my set.  Join me?

Cheers