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)."
