Boch Frères, La Louviere Belgium

Woohoo!!!

Thanks to eBay I have been able to buy some more pieces of the Boch set that was left when my grandmother past away about 24 years ago. Since the set wasn't complete anymore, nobody wanted it at the time and it was left in some old cupboard. I discovered the few pieces (5 dinner plates) when I was searching plates and cups to take with me to my students room. The three little plates (to put a cup on) stayed at home.

The set dates from the late fifties, early sixties (around the time when the World Exhibition was held in Belgium, 1958 to be precise) and has lovely pastel colors My pieces are meanly mint green, yellow, blue, rose and emerald green, bordeaux and grey.

My dad drove me all the way to Charleroi to pick up 11 dinner plates, 11 soup plates (all with a golden edge though), and 12 cute bowls with 'ears'.

The lady who sold this pieces also had some other very interesting pieces...2 of the dessert plates with rounded corners, cups in all the colors (except grey and yellow) and the matching little plates (to put the cups on). I just had to take them home too...

Next goal: trying to collect two items of every type and every color so I have a complete set of plates and cups.