Friday, September 25, 2009
Anyway, sometime back around 1940, just before WWII, a little war broke out between Hamilton and Fairfield. It only lasted a couple months, but, as with all wars, it took its toll. Seventeen outhouses were overturned, several yards were toilet papered and Foxy Wainscott claims his grandmother was shot in the face with birdshot for telling One-Eye Wilcox’s granddaddy that he came from a long line of ignernt. Actually, we all know Foxy’s grandmother was simply born ugly, and she grew up to be an ugly old woman. End of story.
This cup and saucer set is quite small, but it’s in the condition it was on the day it was made by Boseck & Company of Haida. (Haida was in what was Bohemia/Czechoslovakia. It is now called Novy Bor, which is about 47 miles north of Prague, but who cares about all that?)
