Help Me Find the Name of a China Pattern x-post from Home Dec. Conv.
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Dec 2009 Is anyone still being overcharged by their Post Office?
Comments (27)ok...adding more here, for the record... from an email from queenofthemountain. CA I saw the discussion about postage rates and wanted to let you know my Post Office charges the parcel rate for bubble mailers. When I have gone there to mail (usually 2-4 seed packets, taped in place) they charge me $1.22 or $1.39. Here is their info: 8587 Fenwick Street Sunland, CA 91040-1953 (818) 951-0376 I think next time I will print out the Mail Prices page from the USPS Web site to take with me. I suggested she also print out the Physical Standards for Flats (2.0 thru 2.4) and that she ask them to show her their First Class Mail Shape Based Pricing Template...PSN 7530-10-000-0765. If they follow the instructions on the template and check for flexibility (print out that flex test) and see that it is uniformly think...show them the printout on that...then they should be on board. I asked that she report back here with whatever she is told. Hopefully she can get them straightened out, as it is just 2 months shy of being 3 years that the public has been overcharged. Sue...See MoreNeed pattern ID on Noritake china set from occupied Japan!
Comments (39)Yes, this is the Lynbrook #4724. I own this exact set as well. From looking at your pictures I am missing a couple of pieces that I didn't know about, so thank you for the post. If you look on the bottom of the coffee cups, the name of the collection and number is printed. I know I know your going to be thinking you did all that research and you had it there all along, I speak from experience. The pattern identification is only printed on the coffe cups. A little more history to you occupied china - These piece were stamped "occupied" during World War II while America occupied Japan. These products were made for export purposes. It was actually a law that the pieces had to be identified as "occupied". On some of the older piece, you may see were the occupied Japan stamp is a different color than the Noritake stamp, this is because the occupied stamp had to be added to pieces that were produced before the passing of the law. After the signing of the Peace Treaty, the law was demolished; therefore, the occupied stamp was no longer used. If your coffe cups do not have the "Lynbrook 4724 stamp" will you please let me know, because mine do and I would like to be certain that they are original pieces. Thank you...See More(X-post) steel carriage house doors?
Comments (9)Just updating in case anyone else is looking for steel carriage house doors with a stained wood look... I couldn't find anyone in our area who carried the Raynor brand but was able to look at both the Amaar and the Clopay doors. Amaar's "Classica" line comes in a dark woodgrain finish. When looking at images of the doors online, I was just about convinced to purchase the Amaar Classica Lucerne with Seine windows. I thought it would be PERFECT. But, because garage doors are so big you can't NOT see them, I decided I really wanted to look at samples of the actual doors before I bought. I'm so glad I did because as soon as I saw the Amarr door in real life I knew I would not be happy with it. While the overall color (a reddish mahogany shade) would have been fine, the Amaar "wood graining" simply was not at all realistic. Amaar apparently impresses the wood graining into the rolled steel metal before the door panels are formed and then the paint is baked on (or something like that). Then, they stamp the door panels out of the embossed and prepainted sheet metal. The result is that all of the "wood graining" runs in the same direcetion (horizontally) even where the door is stamped out to look like it is made with vertical and/or diagonally placed pieces of wood. The Amaar doors MIGHT look okay from 40 or 50 feet away but, as soon as I walked into the shop and saw the door (from a distance of about 20 feet) I knew it simply would not do. Having the "grain" running in the wrong direction was just too jarring. So I went looking at Clopay as an alternative. It turns out the Clopay's Coachman style doors ARE NOT available in the stained wood colors. Instead, if you want a stained wood color, your only option at Clopay is their "Gallery Collection" which does not include any of the crossbuck styles which is what I REALLY wanted. Still, the Gallery collection comes in two stained wood colors (medium oak and dark oak) AND they actually emboss the wood grain pattern into the steel so that the portions of the door that are supposed to simulate vertical pieces of wood have vertical graining and the parts that are supposed to look like horizontal pieces of wood have horizontal graining. I wasn't too impressed with the dark oak color. It real life it is sort of the color of melted chocolate icecream, i.e., a slightly greyish brown. The medium oak color looked a lot more realistic, a golden medium brown. It might be a tad shiney for some folks but real stained oak finished with a glossy varnish can be shiney as well so I wasn't put off by the shine. I was just disappointed that the Coachman styles (which include crossbuck doors) don't come in the stained wood colors. I also checked out the Jeldwen composite garage doors that are supposed to be stainable. I decided against them for two reasons. First, we would have to have them stained and varnished on-site which would mean either finding someone competant to do the job or doing it ourselves... and of course that meant I couldn't see how well the composite would actually take stain. I even asked the salesman if he had any previous customers who had stained their garage doors that he might call and ask if I could take a drive by and look at their doors. No luck. But, what finally put me off was that, just like real wood doors, Jeldwen recommends that if you stain their composite doors, you sanding sand them down lightly every year and revarnish them! Our garage doors face west so for us so ours would probably need even more maintenance. I don't want to do that much maintenance on garage doors. So, ultimately we decided to get the Clopay Gallery doors. With arched windows and the strap hinges, they look pretty good and were not too outrageously expensive. Installed price was right at 5K for all three garage doors (two 9'x8' and one 8'x8') including the three garage door openers. I'll post a picture when I can locate my camera again. No doubt, next week someone somewhere will come out with a metal carriage house door in a crossbuck style where the embossing is made to run exactly like it would on real wood, and it'll be available in a perfect mahogany brown shade with a satin poly finish AND they'll be selling them for 20% less than my Clopay's! If they do, please just don't tell me. LOL!...See MoreNew To Kitchens? Posting Pics? Read Me! [Help keep on Page 1]
Comments (148)Nope Enduring. The sink pic is upside down no matter which way I turn the iPad. However, it is just fine on my Mac. I thought it was just a fluck yesterday and figured things would straighten out today. It's been a crazy day with our senior dog at the vets. I got on GW for some sanity tonight but "New To Kitchens.." just continues the craziness. I think I should cut my losses and go read a book. ;) Big BUMP to get this baby off of pg 3....See MoreFun2BHere
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