From Pray, Montana
Good.
Found at an old homestead site.
Rusted tin.
3 inches in diameter by 4 1/2 inches high.
Free.
From Billings, Montana
Not so good.
Found in a second hand store.
A saucer with a teacup handle attached to it.
They didn’t know what it was either.
Is it…..
a. As my friend Glenn – who knows about everything – said,
“Something they used to poar hot tea or coffee into, blow on to cool and then drink.”
From “The Phrase Finder” –
“It’s been ‘saucered and blowed.’ A project has been completed – everything has been taken care of.”
and…
“Amongst the working class people in the North of England, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the accepted way to drink tea was to pour a little into the saucer, blow on it to cool it, and then consume with a noisy slurp before repeating the procedure. This custom has long since died out.”
b. My idea,
A factory worker was fed up at the end of the day, and instead of sticking the handle on a tea cup, he made a surrealist gesture of contempt and stuck it on a saucer.
c. A lemon plate.
Answer c.
Life is often not as interesting as it should be.
Porcelain
Noritaki
Hand painted Made in Japan
U.S. Design Pat. applied for circa 1919
5 1/2 inches in diameter
Two dollars
