They are not mine, I just copied them from the net via Google "Images". But years ago my ex-wife did have 5 piece of Flow Blue. She is the one from whom I contacted that dreaded disease often referred to as Antique Pox.
I just remembered I have a picture that was taken at Xmas time in 1981 which shows those Flow Blue pieces and me when I was younger and handsomer and will tell you a story about them which you might find interesting.
My brother, his wife and daughter (my niece), her husband and his Mom and Dad were at my home for an evening visit. The Dad looked at those Flow Blue pieces and said, “Those are pretty, but a little small compared to the dozens n’ dozens that that are on the mantles and stacked in cabinets all over the place on this old estate that I’m caretaker of.” Well now, the ex-wife who was an antiquer long before I met her, looked at him with disgust and disbelief as if to say …… “Don’t give me that BS because there is no way in ell you can be telling the truth.”
Well, to make a really long story short, he was telling the truth. He and my nephew-in-law were the caretakers of the Garvan Estate, … Kamp Kill Kare, …. which was about 5+ miles back in the woods near Raquette Lake, NY and he invited us up for a private “show n’ tell” but we couldn’t take any pictures. There were 21 buildings on the property, … including a small stone Catholic Church imported from Ireland, ….. all chocked full of everything you can imagine, most with inventory #’’s on them, …. including hundreds of pieces of Flow Blue, Redware and hand blown cobalt blue glassware. And that was not an exaggeration. Antiques dating back to the 1600’s ….. that an antiquer would almost “kill for”. Anyway, I heard later on that the heirs came in and “cleaned it out” and it took 17+ tractor-trailer loads to do it.
Anyway, here is that picture of me kneeling in front of the “replica” fireplace I had built. The teakettle on the left is not “floating” there in mid-air, it is hanging on a trammel.
