The Big T’s latest op shop find; the $20 coffee pot. The cups are mine. Image: Su Leslie 21018
At the end of our Waikato weekend, the Big T and I called in to the St John’s charity shop in Ngatea; leaving with a really pretty Japanese vase, a silver (plated) coffee pot and a loyalty card!!
The Big T loves coffee and has started buying interesting vessels for the making and serving thereof. I thought the little red stove-top gadget he got a few months ago was a good bargain, but this latest find was even better.
It took quite a lot of polishing to get it looking like this. Luckily T likes shiny things and is happy to put the in the required effort.
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Zimmerbitch 
It’s beautiful! And very shiny. Lovely shots. I must ask, how to you pronounce Ngatea?
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Thank you; I was amazed at how well it came up 😀 Ngatea is NGA-tea-ah. Emphasis on the first syllable.
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What a great find, lovely
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A lovely coffee pot, and I love the way the little flowers on the table cloth compliment the flowers decorating the feet, handle, and spout of the coffee pot.
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Thank you. Should I confess that i hadn’t noticed the similarity in the flowers on cloth and pot. 🤔
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🙂 🙂
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Very elegant indeed, and the coffe cups are charming. I remember Ngatea well!
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😀 it’s one of those towns that seems a bit timeless.
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People dislike having to polish silver which is why it ends up in charity shops. This one looks in good nick and obviously has not been polished very often as the silver plate gets worn away. I had to have my mother’s silver teapot dipped as hers had been polished a little too zealously over the years. A lovely find. One has to wonder about the history behind such a pretty pot.
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Your mum’s teapot is lovely. I really like that deco look. I love T’s coffee pot, but I’m at heart at 20th century girl.
I’ve never been a fan of polishing things (though I have a vague memory of getting a badge at Brownies for it!) but it obviously brings T joy. Our kitchen could be a a total tip, but the Dualit will still be shiny. 😀
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Such a rare and lovely tea pot so lovingly polished to show its new found glamour! Great find, Sue!
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Thanks Peter. Luckily the Big T was happy to put in the effort to get it shiny again.
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I love the tea set. Reminds of a job I will need to do when we get our stuff out of storage, that is clean a candle holder that my brother gave me years ago. Ngatea has an excellent countryside cafe, can’t recall the name at the moment. We have stopped there a few times while driving from Auckland Airport down to the Bay of Plenty.
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I’m not a fan of polishing silverware, but it does look so much better afterwards. There seems to have been a bit of change in the cafe scene round the Hauraki Plains lately. The old roadhouses are gone and some new cafes have sprung up. My current favourite is the Refinery in Pearls — fab food and great, rustic, boho atmosphere.
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Ok, thanks for the recommendation. If we go that way in October will check it out The one we liked was Woodturners Cafe, out of town.
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I’ll check it out next time. Thanks.
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What a wonderful find, Su. Elegant, sophisticated and made even more beautiful through your delicate eyes and sharp lenses.
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Thank you so much Lucile. 🙏
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What a lovely coffee pot. The detailing is something else and the coffee cups are lovely too, Su.
Leslie
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Thanks Leslie. Not sure we’ll use it much, but it’s nice to have around.
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🙂
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Treasure indeed … I love it!
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Funny how a few years ago we’d have hated things like that, but now … I’m kicking myself for not buying a totally over-the-top gold and enamel soup tureen 😂😂
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Oh nooooo …. maybe that beauty will not be snatched up by another. And if not – it wasn’t meant to be 😊
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After I wrote the comment I did seriously wonder if a three hour round trip today might be too much for a $20 tureen 😂😂
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Welcome to the world inside my head which fortunately gets curbed by grown ups most of the time 😉
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😂😂
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That is a beautiful piece! And I love how you captured the colorful reflections of the cups in the silver.
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Thanks Amy. I spent ages trying to manage what was reflected! I ended up using the camera’s times and zipping out of the room to avoid being in the shots myself.
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Aha! I can see you scurrying away! 🙂
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Lovely job on that silver pot, and lovley pot, cup & saucer!
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Thanks. He takes polishing very seriously 😂😂😂
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Bless him!
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masterful….
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What a beauty! And I also love the cups!! And here’s to men liking shiny objects and working hard for them.😉 xxxxxxxxx
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I had mixed feelings about the cups (they were a gift), but I’m liking them more and more with time. 😀 xxxxx
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A gorgeous find and photo shoot. Well done. 🙂
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Thanks Amanda. 🙂
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I lived in England and have a great love stemming from those years. I also brought back some 6-8 pewter and silver tea pots – have given away some to friends (so they think of me every time they make tea – LOL) but here I love the cups especially…. 😉
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I love the idea of teapots as a gift — especially vintage pots 😀
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