Tea Cup Tuesday-Vintage Rosina

 Hello All!

Welcome to Tea Cup Tuesday!
Martha (of Martha's Favorites) and I have been hosting this tea cup hop since March 8th 2010!
We have just passed our two year mark!

Can you believe that Martha???

I began collecting tea cups when I was in my 20s. I loved the few sets that I had, but had to let go of most when I moved from Canada to the US. I began to collect again, slowly, once we settled, but with a young family newly located, there wasn't much money for such things.

Fast forward many years later, kids in university or all grown with kids of their own, and I am back into the swing of tea cup collecting. I counted over 100 last week!
I really thought I had only about 60! Yikes!

Of course, I am no where near Martha, Queen of Collectors! Right Martha?

Time to let more go! But not the two I am sharing today.....

When I began collecting in earnest a few years back, Rosina was my favorite to find. I found their designs very romantic. This cup above, with the two lovely roses, is "waisted" and "footed", as you can see.

 It also shows off lovely gold sponging...and if you have been following T.T. you know I love gold on a cup!

The scalloped edges also give this cup extra beauty!

The handle is simple with a mild thumb rest and some gold trim.

 Such a beautiful cup!

 Here you can see the Backstamp....and the makers tick as well as the pattern number B5072 (?)

 The second Rosina cup has more color with the added Forget Me Nots. 

Again, we see the gorgeous gold sponged scalloped edges.

The handle on this one looks to be exactly the same.

Here is a bit of a blurry image of the lovely flowers on the plate.

Very pretty flowers!

Here is the backstamp, it is the same one as the first stamp so we know they were manufactured around the same time period. The pattern number...3089 is not easy to read and it may be a 5 instead of a three.

You can see a sideways 3 by the word "Bone" and a Y by "China". These are the artist marks.

Rosina was a pottery in Longton, Stoke on Trent. It used to be the G. Warrilow and Son's Co. (which began in the late 1880s before it became the Rosina company in 1941.

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Hugs, Terri