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When I was a child my parents had these dishes. I remember setting the table at all the major holidays, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas. But we never used these dishes on Mothers Day. Why?
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Well, they aren’t dishwasher safe… See that little gold-tan rim? That will come off in the dishwasher (or so my mother told me), and my mother didn’t want to wash the dishes on her special day!
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These are Adams Caylx Ware and are in the Metz pattern. My mother says these dishes came from her aunt and uncle; Art and Nell Weaver. If you are from Lawrence Kansas, you’ll know them from Weavers Department store… if not, you’ll just think of them as a sweet old couple that loved my mother. My father says he brought them back from a trip to Japan while he was in the Navy. I tend to believe my mother.
So.. back to the story.. I really, really wanted these dishes. I grew to love them, because I had wrapped these dishes each time we moved. I hand washed them so many times, and lovingly set them back in the china cabinet. I was sure my mother would let me have them. She hadn’t used them since I was 13.. so surely she’ll let me have them. She didn’t.
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These dishes aren’t the most attractive set to me. They are not what I would pick if I were to go pick out a set of china today. But because they hold such a wonderful memory of the special dinners we ate when I was a child… I needed to own this set.
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My mother refused to give them to me.. or let me buy them. So I bought them all on eBay.
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I’m not trying to brag.. but I have a place setting for 12, includng the cream soup bowls, and egg cups. Ok.. maybe I’m trying to rub it in a little.. I also have 4 platters, a huge rare salad bowl, covered dish and cake plate.. but who’s counting.