Topic: Chance, Fiesta 'Glass Kraft' for show.

[keith]

The tallest is 4 inches, both pieces are very,very light, all I need now are the flowers !

[chopin-liszt]

How unusual, and not what I was expecting at all from the title -
I was expecting a small plate with sections that perhaps might take small triangular shapes of processed, homogenised, treated, chemically enhanced, semi-solid whitish gunk wrapped in thin aluminium foil. 

[Paul S.]

well, that's just plain silly

very nice Keith.

[chopin-liszt]

And how just plain silly are the "Happy 40th Anniversary" plates, Paul?

How many folk treasure those?
How many were delighted when presented with them?

Why are they all loitering lonely-ly for months on end, on charity shop shelves, before they finally get culled and binned? 

There are loads of plain silly and useless things out there. Why would a plate specifically designed for inedible commercial processed savouries be exempt?
The processed stuff is already "out there", that's quite silly enough.

What would the flowers look like Keith?
There are lampwork flowers currently being made, and put in similar small things, by somebody in Scotland. I encountered them recently. Snowdrops and bluebells.
Would those suffice, or are you desperate to try to track down the correct ones, (I would imagine you are) and what should we be looking for, for you?

[Paul S.]

sniffs, audibly, several times (for effect and sympathy) at having been chastised.                   I thought it was only animals that were culled?, aren't plates and such like just smashed

[chopin-liszt]

I suppose I should be all hoity-toity and smug, then, but I'd only be putting that on for effect too, Paul. 

It is called culling in charity shops, when stock that has been out for too long and is unsold.
Sometimes, it gets shifted to another shop in another area, where that sort of thing will sell, but I haven't ever found evidence of anybody buying a 40th anniversary plate anywhere, at any time.
Anything that cannot be sold is recycled, if that is possible, unsold books get sold by weight to a company that takes them.

It all has to be properly recycled and/or dealt with responsibly.

[Paul S.]

removed ..........   it really was silly

[keith]

Interesting posts  yes I'm afraid it will have to be the original flowers, if there are any still around  Sue, I take it these are not your favourite things then ?  page 86 of David's second book for pictures.

[KevinH]

And who would buy a birthday greetings plate (or whatever it is) that has no apostrophe in the word, "Its" when it is a contraction of "it is"?

[chopin-liszt]

Certainly not anybody who could properly be described as "thoughtful" Kevin!
"Heart-sink" items for the staff in charity shops.