Tuesday was a quiet day. Not much to do except go to the antiques malls and see what I could find. I went back to East Liverpool to drop off some slide film to be developed for a presentation I'd be giving on Saturday. I generally use two different cameras: for digital images; Olympus D-220L and for developed pictures; Kodak Advantix 4100ix. Don't ask me what the "D-200l" or the "4100ix" means! All I know is that both work. With the Advantix, I just drop the roll of film in and the camera does the rest. With 35mm I was always loading the film wrong or messing it up one way or another. The problem with Advantix is nobody makes slide film for these cameras. So I decided to borrow my neighbor's 35 mm and take some slide photos of dinnerware.

After dropping off the film in downtown East Liverpool I went back to Pottery City mall. I was mainly after 1970s and 80s HLC dinnerware for my current book project, but I kept finding neat stuff by other companies at good prices. There were two pieces I would have liked to have but felt the prices were a little on the high side: Coronet platter and sauceboat in ivory with large poppies and gold trim. When I went back later in the week both pieces had been purchased.

	I used to work at an antiques mall in Myrtle Beach, SC. Almost every day someone would look at the Blue Ridge, Autumn Leaf or Fiesta, his or her face would light up, and he or she would make some sort of comment that their mother or grandmother had dishes like those and that's what they ate from each and every day! On the second floor of Pottery City were dishes like those that I ate from -- UGLY brown/yellow/green decaled plates made by HLC. (If you're interested in these horrific pieces of dinnerware, which you're probably not, they're marked, “Country Inn Collection, Homer Laughlin, Made In USA.”) All they had was flatware but I seem to remember that the cups we had were glazed with a brown exterior. Were it not for the book, I'd left the plates to sit on the shelves. Guess I just don't share the sentiments of those who ate from the "good stuff!"
	I was able to find a jumbo Georgette cup and saucer in green with a “Father” treatment. Now all I have to do is find Mother!
	Another 70s/80s Shape. Unlike “Country Inn Collection” and similar wares, I like this shape. They had several different pieces like teapots, coffeepots, shakers, sugars/creams (as shown) and all sizes of plates.
	The decal on this unmarked creamer caught my eye. It wasn't until I picked it up that I realized it belonged to Southern Potteries' Trellis line. For years I've only been able to find the flatware to this shape so it was nice to finally find a piece of hollowware.
	Chateau Buffet ashtray. I've been wanting to do a TS&T book for some time so I've been buying cheap TST items to photograph.
	Another TS&T ashtray. These were recently confirmed to be TS&T shapes and they were decorated by both TST and outside companies. At last years convention, Mr. Smith explained they were made for bars. These would never be made today! Some are corny, some are a little risque and others downright vulgar and offensive.
	A second novelty ashtray, this time on a Harker shape.
	This is the TS&T little OvenServe baker. These are very common in light blue and pink, but this one is in the Pebbleford glaze, Turquoise, and has the little specks, though you probably can't see it in the pic. There were three in a booth. I ended up giving two away and keeping one for myself.
	The OvenServe French casserole shown was made by TS&T. I have a mess of these, but this is the first one I'd seen in this unusual green/gray glaze.
	I got these two pieces so I could take pictures (slides) and use them in Saturday's talk. The 8" plate is from TS&T's Conversation shape and the baker is HLC's Nautilus shape. They are both wearing the same Rose decal treatment which was used by just about every pottery company.