26 February 2013


 
A wedding gift...
 
In February 1926 my grandparents Carl Albert Engel and Mabel Florence Winters were married.  This was one of their wedding gifts.  There is a large bowl with five of these matching smaller bowls. This is my most beloved item in my antique glassware collection.

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