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Phentex

(16,334 posts) Sat Nov 30, 2013, 03:07 PM Nov 2013

Did you use any vintage items for Thanksgiving?

We used my grandmother's gravy boat although I only ever saw red sauce in it when she was alive. And I found an ancient carving knife I don't remember inheriting and it still works! (We usually use my sister's). I guess when you only use something every few years, you shouldn't be surprised it works.

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Did you use any vintage items for Thanksgiving? (Original Post) Phentex Nov 2013 OP

the creamer from my great-grandmother's china was the gravy boat fizzgig Nov 2013 #1

I guess I don't make much that requires Phentex Dec 2013 #5

Well, there's vintage and then there's heirloom. intheflow Nov 2013 #2

I guess I was thinking vintage... Phentex Dec 2013 #6

i have my grandmother's turkey platter.. 2theleft Nov 2013 #3

That's awesome! Phentex Dec 2013 #7

Most of my forebears were sharecroppers or poor farmers and there are no family heirlooms. japple Dec 2013 #4

My sister has my mom's china... Phentex Dec 2013 #8

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)

1. the creamer from my great-grandmother's china was the gravy boat

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2013, 03:46 PM

Nov 2013

it's the only piece of china that gets used all year.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

5. I guess I don't make much that requires

Reply to fizzgig (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 01:43 PM

Dec 2013

a gravy boat but it was sure nice to see on the table.

intheflow

(28,476 posts)

2. Well, there's vintage and then there's heirloom.

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2013, 07:37 PM

Nov 2013

To me, using your grandmother's gravy boat is using a family heirloom. I don't have anything like that. But I used my groovy vintage 1970's Mikasa plates and this medieval serving fork we use to help lift the turkey, both bought at thrift stores over the years.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

6. I guess I was thinking vintage...

Reply to intheflow (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 01:46 PM

Dec 2013

but you are right. I think some of the stuff that only I have owned is now vintage!

2theleft

(1,136 posts)

3. i have my grandmother's turkey platter..

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2013, 11:10 PM

Nov 2013

Literally a large plattter with an turkey painted on it. It is not attractive at all, but reminds of dinners at Nanny and PawPaw's, and those are great memories for me!

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

7. That's awesome!

Reply to 2theleft (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 01:47 PM

Dec 2013

I don't have a special turkey platter. I think my sister got hers as a wedding present.

japple

(9,831 posts)

4. Most of my forebears were sharecroppers or poor farmers and there are no family heirlooms.

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 06:37 PM

Dec 2013

When my parents married in 1947, they were both enlisted in the US Army and stationed in Germany. They had a military wedding at the base chapel. The china we used on Thanksgiving was one of my mother's three sets of china and we're not sure if they received it as wedding gifts or bought it dirt cheap in a depressed post-war economy. We do know that one set of china is the result of an unfortunate accident when Dad turned around in a china shop in Germany (2nd tour in 1959-62 after the kids were born) and knocked over cups/saucers in a display of Mikasa dinnerware.

Many of the things we think of as family heirlooms today are arts/crafts made by the Germans to sell to Americans after the war.

The silverware is a set of sterling that my mother-in-law bought at an estate sale and gave to my husband and me many years ago.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

8. My sister has my mom's china...

Reply to japple (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 01:48 PM

Dec 2013

I got an electric skillet and some pots, lol.

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