Sissy Cup......

My Ebay purchase finally arrived.  It came from a Canadian establishment and it takes awhile for it to get here. Ten days shipping was what I figured that it took to get here.

If you remember in an older blog, I had bought this saucer for a dollar in northern Minnesota at a flea market.  I liked the design on it so much I wanted to get a cup to go with it.  You can see the gold trimmed plate is that cheap plate.  The pattern is called Greenwood Tree.

As an inexperienced bidder I was playing games at the end with a bidder to see how high they had set their bid and I got stuck with the above cup and saucer for a high very large price. I went fifty cents over their top bid. At the beginning at the bidding all the unknown bidders of antique shops had made bids hoping to get it for nothing.  I had set my top price and I ended up going way over it.  Heck it was my first learning experience with something like this.

There was one problem that I now know was my fault, that I should have written to see what size it was.  The saucer is a normal size but the cup is a small thing.  Some of the people selling on ebay tell the size but this one didn't. I now know that I should ask if they don't tell.


At the funeral today I was reminded of a story. The wonderful woman, Lois, who passed away, had a dad named Andy Ewoldson.  His first wife had died and he remarried to a nice woman named Bonnie. After her dad had died, Lois remained a  good daughter to her and we were at Bonnie's house one evening.  While there she fed us ice cream and coffee.  As she put cups on the table, she asked if I wanted a mug or a sissy cup.  I said I wasn't sure what it was, but I was man enough to take a sissy cup.  So she gave me coffee in her fine china cup instead of a mug.  


So as a grown man, I bought myself a sissy cup.  I do believe that I will create a landscape painting around the design on this cup with it's old tree.  If I find a mug, with gold trim on it, I may buy it and then try to resell the cup and saucer above.   I really like the colors of the mug. I like that it is a piece made in England.  I like that pieces of the sets are showing up in Australia for sale and more in Canada.  They haven't been produced for a very long time so their value is not going to decrease.   

Well, enough on this.  I want to sell art on Ebay so it makes me more aware of what I need to tell the buyer about actual size.   Thanks for reading.......

Hey Nanook from  the  North here, we are suppose to get five more inches of snow through the next two days.  We will have clean, white snow again!!!!!