A Couple Weekends Back The Girlfriend And I Were Hitting The East Side Hard. No, Not Venice And The Strip Clubs Therein...But The Thrifts, An Antique Mall And Even An Estate Sale. Status: Last Of The Booty (Not THAT Kind Of Booty!)

Tooling around Fairview Height Illinois after poking around the antique mall and getting some chow at Lotawata Creek we found a Savers nearby that we didn't even know existed!  Of course we just HAD to give it a once over.

This lot of Knowles

Silver Birch

dinnerware was my

big grab.  I've never

seen this pattern

before and it was a

bit pricey but I just

couldn't leave it

behind.  The funny

thing is that the staff


thought it would be

funny to place a
 
couple pieces of it

here and another

couple there and

then the serving

pieces and big bowls

in yet another aisle

all together!  Just

when I thought I had

everything all added up

in my head I'd find another couple of pieces or the salt & pepper shakers and have to do some more math. Fun.



Have you ever been to a Savers Thrift?  They have these neat little trolley carts that are like a large

hand basket with four wheels.  I wish every place had these.  They are so convenient.  What wasn't

convenient is that the clerk felt that she needed to wrap every piece individually with a bag before

bagging a couple of pieces at a time.  I ended up with like 40 or so bags at home!  ::sigh::  I hope the

recycler actually recycles them.  Savers, it would seem, is too upmarket to have extra newspaper

cluttering up the joint.  Even while watching her wrap the various pieces I could see that some were

chipped.



Three of the four dinner plates are chipped or cracked or both.  The butter dish is chipped, but not the

cover...which in my estimation is the important bit.  I have an "extra" cup that is cracked and one of

the other cups has a very small chip...but I think that's it.  So here's the rub...this is a pretty rare

pattern.  I don't think I'm going to be running across many pieces of this any time soon and since it's

so seemingly rare, I doubt there are many people out there looking for individual pieces to complete

their set.  So...what do I do?  I guess I'll just box this all up for now and see what happens.  Maybe

put a few of the serving pieces on display in the booth at The Green Shag and see if there is any

interest.  Maybe I'll end up just making somebodies day!