Collecting Dishes

I have a lot of tea sets and vintage dishes, and they are all different! My Mom likes blue Willow, so all her china goes well together, mine does not! Anyhow, there are a couple of sets that I would love to collect more pieces for.

The first set is a yellow tea set. It was my great grandmothers. I have all the pieces except for the tea pot, I didn't break it, my great grandmother did. But I would love to find the tea pot, or even extra pieces in case it breaks. It is Royal Albert, but with no name on the stamp. There is a gold lattice like pattern on the outside, even the inside is yellow. I have tea cups, saucers, lunch plates, a serving plate, sugar bowl and a cream pitcher. Now I just need the tea pot, or something that goes with it! Keep your eyes out for it!

The next set I have is Mikasa Duplex, by Ben Seibel. He did several collections for Mikasa in the 70s as the brand attempted to increase its cool factor. I have a full set of 6 dinner plates, salad plates, bowls, cups & saucers, 1 serving plate and 1 serving bowl. I found the set at a vintage store on Commercial called Attic Treasures. I got the whole set for $80, great price! And I picked it up just at the right time. As I was handing the woman my money, a guy was telling his friend "look what I found, I am going to get it!", they woman had to tell them sorry... already spoken for!

The dinner plates and salad plates have the star pattern in the middle. All the other dishes are green on the outside and white in the middle.

I found a blog where the writer has a similar obsession to me, but she collects all colours. Take a look.

http://apronthriftgirl.typepad.com/apron_thrift_girl/2007/04/mad_for_mikasa.html

The other peice I have is just that, one peice! But I have seen more, in fact I saw a whole set of it, but it was blue. I would love to have a couple more peices, especially since they co-ordinate with my Mikasa set. The stap on the back has a cluster of 3 leaves and says "turi-design, market, made in Norway" And in the middle of the stamp is something that kind of looks like 2 F's, a bit like this F/F. I think it is a cute pattern and would love to find more!