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Aug. 30th, 2014 02:41 pm Gran, what were you up to.
When we cleared out Gran's stuff this past May, out in California, one of the finds was a series of collectors' plates. Mum kept most of them but for some unknown reason, she bestowed upon me a green collector's plate featuring tourist attractions in KANSAS: THE SUNFLOWER STATE.
I did a bit of googling around and I have come to the conclusion that my grandmother, at some point, acquired a bootleg, counterfeit KANSAS: THE SUNFLOWER STATE collector's plate. It has no factory markings, but it's clearly designed to look like it was produced by the Kettlesprings Kiln.
Collector's plates, you guys, are a kind of dark sorcery that puts fear in my heart. Don't go where I have passed; stay safely on the porn side of the internet.
This raises so many questions. Why was anyone bootlegging Kettlesprings Kiln collector's plates? Why would they do it for Kansas? Where did my gran, who had to my knowledge never been to Kansas, acquire such a thing? Why, even if she had been to Kansas, would she acquire such a thing?
What do I do with it?
It's a really nice plate. Like, I'd like to use it as a plate, but I'm worried I'll give myself some kind of lethal poisoning.
When we cleared out Gran's stuff this past May, out in California, one of the finds was a series of collectors' plates. Mum kept most of them but for some unknown reason, she bestowed upon me a green collector's plate featuring tourist attractions in KANSAS: THE SUNFLOWER STATE.
I did a bit of googling around and I have come to the conclusion that my grandmother, at some point, acquired a bootleg, counterfeit KANSAS: THE SUNFLOWER STATE collector's plate. It has no factory markings, but it's clearly designed to look like it was produced by the Kettlesprings Kiln.
Collector's plates, you guys, are a kind of dark sorcery that puts fear in my heart. Don't go where I have passed; stay safely on the porn side of the internet.
This raises so many questions. Why was anyone bootlegging Kettlesprings Kiln collector's plates? Why would they do it for Kansas? Where did my gran, who had to my knowledge never been to Kansas, acquire such a thing? Why, even if she had been to Kansas, would she acquire such a thing?
What do I do with it?
It's a really nice plate. Like, I'd like to use it as a plate, but I'm worried I'll give myself some kind of lethal poisoning.
