MACKENZIE CHILDS WANNA BE SILVER COFFEE TEA SET

 
Well, you will all remember me looking for a silver tea service that I could paint like Mackenzie Childs....I bid on this large set on ebay, coffee tea creamer and sugar and would you believe even a beautiful tray...black and tarnished but beautiful never the less...
 
You  will remember the little creamer I painted that  gave me the bug to paint a tea set...

My bid of 22.00 won on Ebay and 20.00 for shipping...I knew it would be black and ugly and tarnished, so it would be my first paint project.,....I also knew much of the silver would be worn off and it would be the perfect paint project with the cool grooves that run from top to bottom, so easy for some guide lines....I loved this little set below and thought it was so sweet, it was my inspiration..

                                                                                                        

 This is what I was going for when I bid on the tea set...I was so excited for mine to arrive...

This is the tray, I started cleaning the center, it was very heavy and very black, but what I noticed as I was cleaning the tray was it was so beautiful and in such great shape...

 
Well as you can see, I cleaned and cleaned and it was getting more and more beautiful...
 
I kept thinking, well the next piece will be damaged, and the silver worn off....wrong..

I knew from the Ebay seller that it was a wm Rogers silverplate and he said he did not know the age, just that it had been his grandmothers and that it was over 70 years old but he did not know how old....I  have no idea of the value of it, just know it looks pretty on my table...
 
Since I was going to paint it anyway, I already expected it to be well worn and probably a little damaged....wrong
 
What I did not expect was it to be so stunning and in near perfect condition...It is very heavy and I know he spent much more on the shipping then he charged me....
 
Do you see those ridges, that was what grabbed my attention for my paint project...

 

My last thought was "well the tray probably does not match the set"  wrong, the tray is the tray that goes with the set...yay
 
Soooo I have decided not to paint this beautiful set, I just could not do it...way to pretty and I did not want to make a project out of this...what would you do?  Paint or not paint?  I think I might clean it once again with tarnix, then wash with warm soap and water, dry and maybe use carnuba wax to keep it from tarnishing, I am not sure though, I will have to do some more research on how to keep it out to see and keep the tarnish down....maybe someone out there knows?
     Thank you for stopping in for a visit.  Let me know what you think of the coffee tea set...Please leave a comment, I have to get this Christmas decorating done, I am so behind....

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