April 17, 2024
3 Bowdoin College Chapel Plates Wedding Anniversary Gift Flow Blue Brunswick ME
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A perfect wedding or wedding anniversary gift for your favorite Bowdoin College alum! For about a century, the Chapel has been a favorite location for Bowdoin alumni to marry, especially since the early 1970s when the school begin admitting women and the possibility of both spouses being alums arose. This special collection of three dinner plates from right around 1890, 1931 and 1940 is sure to be a far more memorable wedding gift than the rarely used Kitchenaid mixer. Perhaps the perfect gift for the couple celebrating its 25th, 35th or 50th anniversary! First is an exceptionally rare 10" late victorian flow blue plate made by Adams in England for DF Percy & Sons, Bath, Maine. Made right around 1890, it may be the earliest piece of Bowdoin souvenir china. I doubt a dozen of this plate still exist. This plate is in great shape with just a small in manufacture glaze skip to the interior rim (a small recession with a raised portion that suggests a stone or impurity burned off in firing). Next, a scarce circa 1940 10" Adams Old English Staffordshire plate made for the Stowe House when it was still an inn. Great shape with a couple knife marks. Finally, a 10 1/4 inch 1931 Wedgwood blue plate with the rare, first edition Longfellow quote to the reverse. A truly rare set that would and did take a lengthy concerted effort to amass. I was
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