Hi, everyone, thanks for visiting me! I live in Victoria, known as the City of Gardens and the old capital - before Vancouver - of British Columbia, the most western province of Canada. Victoria is actually on Vancouver Island, and has a storied history as an early English colonial outpost before Canada's provinces united into one country. So here you will find a passionate tradition of "Made in England" china collections and collectibles in many little shops, along with Antiques Row and 2 wonderful Auction houses! My English grandmother was born here in the late 1880s and after a whirlwind courtship, married my Irish grandfather, promising to join him on his new homestead in the far north of Alberta. And she did, carting her treasured pieces of English China and linens from this "outpost of civilization" to her new home, through the Rocky Mountains, up to the Peace River District north of Edmonton Alberta, sometime around 1916! I often think of her as I acquire yet another piece (or set) of beautiful china, and think of how she would have loved EBay. How she could have ordered lovely things to eventually arrive on her isolated, lonely homestead...how she could have spent hours browsing, as the great winter snows fell, far from her home on Vancouver Island and the year-round flowers of Victoria !
So I have joined EBay, and now, almost a century later, I find on EBay a world of china and collectibles available to me! Even better, I can now shop for and share with EBay buyers the beautiful treasures in china and collectibles that I find here in the City of Gardens. That's if I am actually able to part with something after I find it! My collecting and selling really centers on old-fashioned "Made in England" china from the days of the Potteries, especially Christmas patterns, and all vintage transferware from the wonderful companies like Johnson Brothers and Mason's. Of course, I am expanding my interests (or they are expanding me!) all the time, so look for increasingly diverse china and pottery collectibles in my auctions.
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