Vintage Shopping test # 8

 Hi Everyone

 Happy Wednesday

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Have you bought white ironstone from a Etsy shop or online

I decided to try my luck and buy 2  white ironstone butter pats sold together

They were a great buy and the pictures looked good and for 4 dollars including shipping
I could not pass them up

But when I received them only one of the butter pats was actually real
 white ironstone 

 Here are the two butter pats

Are you ready
 for another

Vintage shopping test

The butter pat on the left with the white bunny

 is a little larger than the one on the right

 with the yellow duck

As you can see the little butter pat 

that the yellow duck

 was sitting on actually fits inside the larger butter pat

When buying white ironstone
I always look for the stamp or mark on the bottom to be absolutely sure it is authentic
 but sometimes the mark  has been worn away with age
so then you have to go by color and  weight of the piece

Not being able to see the mark on the bottom of these two butter pats
 and not being able to touch them
 makes  choosing the real ironstone piece really difficult

Are you ready to choose the authentic white ironstone butter pat?

The larger butter pat on the left is the real

 ~white ironstone~ 

How did you do?

This was a very challenging  vintage shopping test
and when you buy online from any source always ask to see the mark
 if possible

Let me know how you did...

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linking for White Wednesday

romantic saying for today
"I see my fated stars in your eyes they melt me like the sun does snow"
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Pam