My mother had a friend who had chalk-ware decorations in her kitchen. She had inherited them
From her grandmother, maybe even her great-grandmother. They were from the forties.
A chalk-ware peach, a chalk-ware apple, a chalk-ware orange, a chalk-ware banana.
Cook, butler, maid, stove, refrigerator, sink, all in chalk-ware.
When she reached her nineties she was still in her...
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