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[chuffle]

Wandering back to Corelle for a minute...

I also have a set of Corelle, and it is the ubiquitous Butterfly Gold pattern.

I know that everyone seemed to have it, and it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I am quite fond of it. Like a lot of collectors, where a particular color or pattern brings back memories of another time, BG holds such memories. I got the bug for it in the early 2000s. While living in Pittsburgh, and having three Red White and Blue thrift stores that were my favorite haunts, I found it quite easy to amass enough pieces for a nice set. I too, prefer the hook-handled cups. While I have my parents' sets of Currier and Ives, Golden Wheat, and Color-Flyte Melmac, and my set of Pfaltzgraff Yorktowne, the Corelle is what my hand falls upon for my daily use.

One of the things that I have found over the years, is that one needs to check the edge of the pieces, mainly the plates - a lot of them feel rough to the fingernail test, not smooth. So many of the plates that I have run across have staining to the edges, what looks to be rust stains. No amount of Corningware cleaner removes these stains. I always wondered if it had something to do with folks having ragged dishwasher racks that have rusty spots, and leaving the Corelle in the machine after a wash would cause the rust to stain the edge. I could be way off on this...

The one piece of BG that I don't have is the covered sugar. In all of my searching, all that I have found are sugars with either yellowed lids, or missing their lids completely.

Joe

 

[vintagekitchen]

Corelle

Up until a few years ago I had a complete setting for 12 in Spring blossom green which I had collected a few peices at a time, along with all the serving ware, casseroles, mixing bowls, cruets, salt and pepper, butter dish, the works. I began collecting it at a time when I had avocado green appliances in the kitchen (Frigidaire stove, GE fridge), and matching green Club Cookware, so I kinda had a theme going, lol.

My grandmother was constantly attempting to talk me out of the set (even offering to buy them or to trade me her stoneware dishes for them), so after the old stove gave up the ghost, and the fridge was painted almond to match the replacement stove, I carefully packed all of it, dishes, mixing bowls, every peice of spring blossom green I had, and took them all to her.

You would have thought I gave her the Hope diamond. It turns out that when she was a young bride, she wanted a set of Spring Blossom Green Corelle like her sister in law had very very much, but they could never afford it. All these years and she had never forgotten how badly she wished they could afford that set of dishes, and thats why she wanted them so badly. Had she told me the story before, I would have sent them home with her immidiately. Until I took them over and she told me the story, I had just assumed she noticed them and thought they were pretty.

Now anytime there is a family dinner at her house, she makes sure everyone knows where the dishes came from, and that when she passes away, those dishes go to me, lol.

 

[danemodsandy]

Roughness/Rust

That roughness on the edges of Corelle pieces is microscopic chipping from being in the dishwasher. If your dishwasher's racks are good, with all their Plastisol, you generally won't have the problem. The darkening at the edge is, as you suspect, rust sublimated off dishwasher racks onto the roughness.

Some roughness doesn't hurt anything, though if it ever reaches the stage of discernible chipping, you need to retire that piece. The rust can be removed by CLR or Lime-Away or Zud.

 

[chuffle]

Vintagek...

That's a sweet story. Always interesting to hear why folks click with certain patterns, certain items.

Joe

 

[launderess]

@danemodsandy

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