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CHRISTMAS BONE CHINA

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Accompanying the story: Warren
Hanson’s illustrations, including The holidays are a great time to celebrate
several of Great-aunt’s holly- together and most importantly extend our thanks
bedecked china tea set.
Christmas Tea sets soon filled for your loyalty to our company over the past year
store shelves, complete with mini and hope we can continue to work with you
editions of the book that inspired
them. The tea leaves had spoken. in the coming year.
By the dawn of the twenty-
first century, it “just wouldn’t It is being associated with people like you
be Christmas” without new or
vintage holiday bone china. A Victorian-style collage from who make our jobs a pleasure and keep our
Bone china was the 1748 Victorian Trading Company. products successful.
brainchild of London porcelain-
maker Thomas Frye. To create May your Holiday Season be filled with much
his “fine porcelain”, Frye added
bone ash to a china clay formula. Joy, Happiness and Success.
Animal bones were crushed,
reduced to ash at high heat, We look forward to working with you in the coming
and mixed into the clay. The
result: finished china of superior year and hope our relationship continues
translucency and whiteness. for many years to come.
However, despite favorable
comparisons with imports from Merry Christmas,
the Continent, Frye’s bone
china never really caught on. The Staff of The Antique Shoppe
That had to wait for refinements Cup, saucer, and teapot released in 1982, to
incorporated by one of the best- capitalize on the Tom Hegg/Warren Hanson holiday
hit, A Cup of Christmas Tea. A mini-edition of the
known names in pottery, England’s book was also included. Marked “Taiwan”.
Josiah Spode.
In the early 1790s, Spode developed
what remains the standard for bone
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