Here’s the china I grew up with in the 60s - Sango Fantasia
I have a sentimental attachment so I kept the pieces my mother had and bought a couple of plates on Replacements Ltd. to make a set of 8. The colors in it are gorgeous. It makes a nice brunch set.
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Oh, that’s good to know. It does have metallic trim.
I hope this works. This is what we did have. I included the teapot because it shows the raised pattern a bit better. The crystal had the same design etched on it. We had twelve place settings of the dishes plus flat soup bowls, plus sherbet/dessert bowls, plus all kinds of serving pieces. Coffee pot, tea pot, etc. In the crystal we had 12 water goblets, white wines, red wines, and champagne classes.
I think I am the only person on this thread that has mentioned Rosenthal at all??
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@Hoggirl you say you “had” this? Is it gone?
Yup.
Rosenthal Romance
She said upthread that she had sold it.
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Ok…The extra dinner plates I use when I get tired of only white are…
Villeroy and Boch Twist Candy Blue (which I already posted.
Villeroy and Boch Switch Cordoba
And I have luncheon plates Villeroy and Boch Luxembourg white
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@thumper - yes - all of this is gone. We sold it in our “living estate” sale when we downsized. We maybe used the china once a year. The stemware was never used. As someone else mentioned, the glasses were all sized small by today’s standards.
I watched about ten minutes of a Hoarders episode while I was exercising and had to go get rid of some stuff - even though I don’t have very much extraneous stuff left! I’ve just become very utilitarian in my old age. If something doesn’t get used, it goes.
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Here is the Villeroy and Boch Twist Candy.
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Someone upstream mentioned tea cup collections. My MIL had her mother’s collection…well…half of it. She had 6 cups and saucers all different and each with a matching luncheon plate. When they had their moving sale, I called my daughter and asked her if there was anything she wanted from the sale. The tea cup collection was not for sale, but that’s the only thing my daughter wanted. So… asked my MIL and she gave them to her.
They are wrapped up in our basement now…DDs house isn’t quite big enough to even store all this stuff.
They are actually very pretty plates, but I have no idea what my DD plans to do with them!
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My D likes tea cups, too. She took the few mismatched cups and saucers that my grandmother had left and that were living in my parent’s basement when they moved. For now I have them, but as soon as she lives in a place for longer than a year I will transfer them to her possession!
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My dad was stationed in Japan in 1957-60. He married my mom 3 months after her high school graduation and they went to Japan for 3 years. While there, they bought a set of china. I’ve never seen anything like it but I’m sure it was inexpensive because they had no money.
It’s white square dishes with silver stars. I have no idea who made it. But it’s been promised to me for a long time. My sister is getting the silver which was a gift from my mom’s grandmother and has more monetary value.
When my other china set broke, I was sad. I loved that set. But I know that someday I’ll have my parents with a story that means something to me.
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I love china, silver and crystal. This thread is getting me to think about using it more often! We always use it for holiday and special dinners and I love pretty linens too 
My mother had one espresso cup and saucer from her mother’s china set which was Limoges. I always loved it and when I picked mine I picked the current iteration of it, though hers was Bernardaud and mine is Field Haviland.
This is the closest image I could find to my Grandmothers’s:
Here is mine:
https://www.replacements.com/china-charles-field-haviland-cornflower-large-dinner-plate/p/19761031
I have an antique white linen tablecloth with pale blue cutwork design and the china looks very pretty on it. We were in the army and stationed in Germany about 2 months after we got married so we got a lot of money gifts and not a lot of physical gifts. After we were in Germany we found a china shop over the border in France and were able to buy a 13 piece set with lots of serving pieces for way less than we would have paid in the US.
I had always also loved my Mom’s crystal and when I picked ours out I picked one that I thought was similar but turned out to be the same exact pattern, I guess I am pretty sentimental 
In Germany we were able to buy it pretty inexpensively at the PX. My Mom has since given me hers after she moved out of her house and she had some really cool pieces like the ice tea glasses that I didn’t have.
I love seeing the patterns people are posting, fun to be able to see pics! Especially love the Imperatrix Eugenie, runnersmom’s Minton consort and thumpers’ V&B switch cordoba among others.
I had trouble posting pics, I know it’s been explained before but I get a message that says I can’t embed media items in post. 
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My turn. I have Royal Doulton Kingswood, which has sat untouched in the dining room cabinet for many years. I kinda forgot how nice it is. We don’t entertain much and I have other dishes I like better for the holidays. However, I think its time to bring out the good stuff again.
I am loving this thread. So many of you have posted your china and I’m recognizing some patterns that I almost selected back in 1982.
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Our everyday dishes are stoneware from Mikasa which we found at an outlet store decades ago. We loved the wide variety of shapes of bowls. It’s Studio Nova Color Mix Bay Blue. Oven to table to dishwasher. I can’t find it anywhere online, probably because it has a tendency to chip. Which is likely how it ended up in the outlet store.
I got our son this Corelle set for Chanukah. No idea what is was replacing; all I remember about it is that it cost $20 for service for four 10 years ago.
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I believe, back in the day, we were told not to put silver and gold trimmed china in the dishwasher due to the heat. My mother would put hers in the DW, but remove them before the heat dry, or turn the dry cycle off if the DW had that option. Now, DW have a china setting, so unless you are washing the same set daily, I think it is ok to put in the dishwasher.
My SIL host Passover and Rosh Hashanah every year; we are about 30 people. She got tired of the mix and match table settings; each table had a different set of dishes, from her china, her mother’s china and her everyday dishes. She decides one year to pick up plain white plates, running to multiply locations of the chain store to collect enough. She still uses crystal and silver for the two older adult tables; the children and adults under about 50 get her everyday glasses and silverware! This works well for her.
I host Thanksgiving, also with close to 30 people each year. As I downsized to a townhome 3 years ago, we host Thanksgiving at our clubhouse. It is a short walk from our home, but a pain to take dishes and glasses. We went with what we call the good plastic plates from Costco; they are trimmed in silver and are strong enough to go in the dishwasher, but I don’t do that! I found great stemless plastic wine glasses on Amazon, that also could be washed, but I don’t. I have a thing about eating with plastic utensils, so I still use my mother’s and my everyday silverware. As Thanksgiving is a casual holiday for us, this works out well, and cleanup is a breeze. I remember the days of using china and crystal where my husband and I were still up at 1:00am washing and drying dishes; I do not miss that at all!
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I chose a crystal that I liked very much and my MIL liked it, too, she bought all sorts of other shapes and pieces. We don’t use the stemware very often, but use the bar glass frequently.
With toddlers running around it may be a few years, but I do plan to begin using it all again. Though a friend had a small wedding at my house and I used it and, yep, of the dozen of us, someone broke a glass. But, whatever, there is simply no reason to have ‘stuff’ that just looks pretty when it is mean to be used. MIL never used it after the first few years.
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Waterford? @somemom
I don’t think I mentioned this, but my ex SIL and I had the same crystal pattern. I might have picked it because I liked hers, but it was 41 years ago, so might be mistaken. We would borrow each others for the holidays we each hosted for a few years and it worked out well for awhile, that is until one glass was chipped. The dinner was at SIL’s home, and when it was time to return my crystal, it seems the glass that was chipped was mine. 
It wasn’t like we had our names on the glasses, so not exactly sure how she decided the broken glass belonged to me. I the situation was reversed, I would have kept the chipped glass as I was responsible for the care. My mother ended up taken the glass to a repair place and having it buffed out, so it is usable now. Let’s just say I am glad she is an ex, not just because of the crystal!
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My D loves vintage China and would totally get that for her own use BUT concern about lead in old china.
Interest about tea cups. I notice with my older D registering for China that now very few girls register for anything other than plates
I attended a bridal shower a couple of years ago where a great aunt or something gave the bride one of her collection of antique teacups with a promise to give her more for birthdays/Christmas going forward. The bride was doing all she could to seem enthusiastic about this prospect though it was painfully clear to me that she was not.
I think examples like this are why I am just not into gift-giving at all. Or at least not into gift-giving where the giver assumes the recipient’s desires are the same as his/hers. It was obvious that the elderly relative thought this was a grand gesture and commitment on her part to bestow antique teacups upon this young woman. So, well-meaning, but just not a great gift in the eyes of the recipient.
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