Copper. Shine. Painted. Pair. 1800s. Tea set. Hostess. Power. Women. Tradition. Heritage. Ancestry. Connection.
This pair of copper creamers has been in my family for over two hundred years and dates back to my ancestors in Ireland. The tradition throughout the last two centuries has been to pass them on to the eldest daughter. My grandmother inherited them from her mother, and because she only had sons, the next girl in line was yours truly; someday I will have to bequeath them to my daughter, granddaughter, or if there is none, my sister's.
The creamers themselves are gorgeous, with the shiny copper and the delicate paint, but it's the tradition behind them that makes them so meaningful--to think, two hundred years worth of women who have had these creamers in their homes, in their possession, and for whatever reason (there is no record of how or when this practice started) passing them on to their daughters and granddaughters. It is a privilege to have these and to share possession of them with the women I descended from.
You should have grandma fill in the history for you and you can then document it and pass along to your descendants.
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Unfortunately she barely knows a thing more about it than is written here! There's a little piece of paper rolled up inside of one of them where she wrote down some of the names that she can trace it to and what the tradition is, but she can't trace it very far back and isn't sure how it started either, which is too bad!
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