'precious few left in circulation'

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

The book I found, but sadly I haven't yet found the dinner service (the pictures of which below come from The Owl Service site).





As The Owl Service wikipedia entry tells us:
In I've Seen a Ghost (1979), Peter Plummer mentions a nationwide search for a dinner service with the same owl/flower pattern that was run in association with TV Times in 1969:

"I only know now that there are precious few of these sets in circulation.....(we) only managed to turn up three other copies, one of which, curiously enough, had been accompanied by very unpleasant associations of disaster in the family which had owned it (and one of the other families suddenly woke up to what it was they were eating their tea off while watching the transmission of the first episode)."

Posted by Mark at 20:49