✴ a holey plate

Last week I happened upon this lovely plate in a local charity shop.

I have to admit that I had a bit of a 'Homer Simpson' moment and it took a few seconds for it to sink in what this plate actually was.

You see, at the moment I have my eye out for pretty vintage side plates to go onto a spare bit of wall above the front door and I thought I'd stumbled across another lovely to add to the collection.

Hooray, I thought, and then looked closer with dismay. Oh no, there is a hole in the middle of the plate, what a shame.... 

Yep, wait for it.......wait a few more seconds......probably a few more... (image of me still staring vacantly at plate hole...), and then....

AAAaaaHhhhhhhhhhhhhAhhhaaaahhhhhhhh....(choir of angelic voices can be heard, ray of light from above shining down on....ok am I going too far with this??...........) and then the penny dropped....

A cake stand plate!

Just what I have (completely forgotten about ) been looking for.

A couple of months ago I noticed a large crack in a glass plate cake stand that had been given to me as a hen party gift by a lovely friend who presented it to me laden with yummy cupcakes....Mmmmm.

The plate had to be turfed but I kept the metal stand in the hope that I would be able to find a replacement plate. And here it was staring me in my (slightly slow on the uptake) face.

I'm no pottery expert but the plate is relatively old, perhaps 30's /40's/ 50's? And has the makers mark, 'HT & sons made in England' but so far I have not been able to find anything out about them.

No matter, it's a lovely plate, fits so well onto the Laura Ashley plate stand and was only £4!

 I'm so happy to fix something treasured (and used often!) but broken and mix the old with the new!

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