Featured Today was my favourite brocante at the local dog rescue service...

...not that dogs are my favourite domestic animal. But the sale is very small just two tables and a load of baskets on the ground.

I was there for an hour, and could, should have gone round again; but my back and legs were aching. So my score was:-

1 Five 10" W.H. Grindley English Country Inns plates. Excellent condition.
2 Two sets demi-tasse and saucer Coalport '"Ming Rose". Excellent condition.
3 One Italian Baroque dish. Good condition.
4 One water-colour of Douarnenez port (France). I am convinced it is a signed original.
5 One Italian or Portuguesa ceramic handbell. Good condition.
6 One ravier Obernai/Sarreguimines. Good condition.
7 One plate (not Quimper) possibly St. Malo. Good condition.
8 One blue jug. Impressed on the back that I cannot make out.
9 One Portuguese jug, the name on the back that I cannot read.
10 Three tapestries, unmounted.
11 One covered sugar bowl, Sarreguimines marked 1860 - 1919. Minton design and pattern. Excellent condition.
12 Three eggcups.
13 One "mouse in a boot," for toothpicks, et al.

ALL FOR THE PRINCELY SUM OF €8. I DECLINED THE €2 THEY TRIED TO GIVE ME AS CHANGE FOR A €10 NOTE. A BIENTOT.



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Thank you for looking.

I will be returning with some them for your help in identification.

 

like the painting.....or hand colored print ?? and the bell !!

........................... BUT..........................

". a load of baskets on the ground."

where's a picture of that ????????????

 

Love the Douarnenez picture. I also think it could be a hand coloured print, but very charming.

Still, they need rescuing too. Just pretend they are loud cats.
Or don't you like cats either? Pretend they are huge hamsters?

Well done, on both the purchase and declining the change.

 

Such charming items! We'll done and for a good cause!

 

Photo #8 reminds me of the Villeroy & Boch blank that they call Manoir when undecorated white and French Garden when decorated, among many others.

 

An interesting observation. The two companies Sarraguimines and Villeroy & Boch coexisted in the same ever-changing territory of Alsace-Lorraine. So I expect plagiarism.

 

It is so nice to hear that your finds support the pups!!