Tea Cup Tuesday-Mint Blue

Hello All!
Welcome to Tea Cup Tuesday,
time to reach into the china cabinet and pull out a cup to share!
Have a seat by the fireplace and I will pour you a cup of tea.
First off though I have two things to say:

Thank you all so much for your amazing comments from my last post!

You all showed up big and brave and cheered me up! I really loved reading all your comments. I too, felt inspired by the ladies of the video clip and look forward to aging more than I did!

Next I want to mention that I am starting a giveaway in a day or two, to celebrate my birthday in March, and to celebrate a new life stage that I have just entered. Two happy occasions! Yay! 

So come back soon and sign up for my giveaways...yes, more than one prize! Now onto the cup! 

This is a relatively new cup to me, and I am enjoying the beauty of the soft mint green coloring.

The cup is a generous size and easy to hold in the hand. It is not heavy, but not light like Haviland is.

Lovely...my favorite detail about this cup is the pattern in the mint green edges of the cup. You can see slightly darker lines in it. But what you can't see is that this gives the cup a bit of a 3D effect. It looks like the lines are in a layer below, so very pretty!

The handle is so elegant and feminine, I love the little jots of gold highlights.

This handle does not sport a spur, but a little gold line at the top of the handle kinda acts like it is one!

The floral bouquet in the bottom of the cup is lively and fresh. 

The plate is decorated just like the inside of the cup.

Surrounded by my second favorite detail, the gold pattern that looks gorgeous!

I swoon for gold trim like this!

(I sound so silly, and me a grown woman!)

Oh! 

And did you guess yet who manufactured this cup?

Royal Grafton! I do not have many made by this English company A.B. Jones and Sons Staffordshire potteries in Longton, Stoke on Trent. They made porcelain and earthenware from 1900 through 1972, and apparently had many different backstamps. This backstamps was first used in 1950 and an new fancy backstamp was chosen in 1957, so I feel safe to say that this cup would have been created somewhere in those 7 years.

Stop by and see Martha, my co host, at Martha's Favorites. She also has a wonderful site Pretty Vintage Things where she sells many of her great finds

Thank you so much for coming by to visit today, I am so glad you are here! If you would like to join in, just go and create a post with the tea cup you want to share in it and then come back and link that specific post to Linky Tools below.

Just a little Valentine Love.....