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So, I have this mixing bowl that I got from my mother when I got my first apartment; it had been a gift to her from her mother-in-law at some point in the distant past, and she passed it on to me because I needed a bowl.

It's been a great bowl; it's deep and wide and enamel, and it's perfect for mixing stuff in. But the enamel doesn't cover the very top rim of the bowl, which is metal and prone to get kind of cruddy, so I decided I'd see if I shouldn't get it re-enameled, or repaired somehow, because I don't want my nice third-generation bowl to disintegrate because I didn't care for it properly.

So I googled for it, and managed to find a picture of it on google imagesearch; it was for sale on Etsy, which makes sense because it was a vintaOH MY GOD TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS?

Apparently my mixing bowl was designed by some famous Finnish guy for some famous Finnish tableware company, and bowls he designed now go for between $120 and $300 in the vintage collectibles market.

So I have now washed the bowl very, very carefully with a soft cloth, and I have to find a new home for it that is not "piled on top of the glass mixing bowls in the baker's rack".

(I will never sell it, it's a GREAT BOWL, it's worth $200.)

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BTW, for those who wanted to see the bowl -- this isn't my bowl, mine's a bit more scuffed, but this is the same pattern/make:



It's a Kaj Franck joint. :D