Lot of 4 - MIKASA F 9000 FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE WHITE 7-1/8" Coupe Cereal Bowl

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This is a set of four Mikasa French Countryside 7-1/8" coupe cereal bowls. I only have two pictured but I have eight in all. All in very nice condition with little to no utensil marks. No chips or cracks or nicks. I can ship all four for a flat rate priority mail $14.99. This belonged to my sister who lived in Italy for over 30 years. When she passed away I had all of her dishes, all of her things shipped back to the States from her home in Venice, Italy. Hoping it goes to a good home. For over thirty years while living in Venice my sister maintained a home outside of Venice where she kept her horses, an apartment in Venice and an art studio where she entertained and was the patron of art shows for new artists. Plates in a separate listing.Immediate positive feedback upon receipt of payment. Ships same day if paid by three p.m. Paypal preferred but I will gladly accept other methods. . Let me know if you get a chance to read my page with Juli's story and I will send you an extra gift of at least 700 photos on a CD of photographs of my time in Italy with these dishes. Let me know if you read my me page and that you want the Venice CD. SMOKE FREE/PET FREE home. Always 100% buyer satisfaction guarantee or money back! Absolutely NOTHING past this point has to do with THIS listing. No small print to read. If this is all you need to know to buy these dishes OR, if you would like to know the story of the person who owned this and read about an incredible life lived in the most romantic city in the world, then sit back in your desk chair and enjoy... I was living in Padova, Italy in the early 70's with my husband and children. My little sister, only 19 at the time, came to visit me from the States. She decided to take a train ride to Venice by herself and there she met, Paolo. He was quite a bit older but he intrigued her. He was working on his Venetian sailboat. She approached him and asked half jokingly if he would give her a ride on his sailboat. He did and he took her around to all of the islands. He spoke little English and she spoke no Italian but there was something there. She had just come from a traumatic situation in the States. Her fiance had died suddenly and she was devastated. Paolo was the distraction she needed. She said he was a gentleman, old school, would not let her pay for anything and she enjoyed the quiet between them. This quiet grew into an unlikely romance and they married. Juli on her first day in Padova. No one had seen that smile in months. Working briefly as a nanny this is Juli with one of her "charges". She was becoming a true Venetian. Paolo was an artist and did not own a camera. In those early days he must have painted Juli dozens of times on their sailboat with him at the helm and Juli always reading. As wonderful as life was always sailing and reading Juli longed to work but did not have the proper papers. One day when she and Paolo were sailing down the Grand Canal the wife of a wealthy hotel owner fell into the Canal. Paolo jumped into save her and when the hotel owner said he wanted to reward Paolo he said, "Give my wife a job!" Juli began a job at the front desk of one of the nicest hotels in Venice and quickly became fluent in Italian, Venetian and French. On the side Juli taught a conversational English class and her classes were very popular because she taught using stories from the scandalous National Enquirer. One of her students took this picture and mailed it into the Enquirer 30 years ago. This article was published in the Enquirer the next month. One day Juli went to the University Library with one of her students who worked there and was horrified to find stacks of books nearly ruined in the basement nearly molding and dust covered. Juli volunteered to clean these books and reintroduce them into the university library shelv... read more

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