Egg cups with a message

We have a very important message for you, dear egg cup collectors, egg cup lovers and readers in general: this blog is still alive! We took a little break but here we are again, with plenty of egg cups to share with you. Today we take a look at some pieces communicating messages, in case another proof was need to demostrate that egg cups are much more than things to put your eggs on.

Interesting info: 1) for the delight of all Beatrix Potter fans, here is a Wedgwood Peter Rabbit fine china egg cup with the sentence "Peter sat down to rest: he was very damp with sitting in that can", marked "Wedgwood of Etruria & Barlaston, Made in England, Copyright Frederick Warne & Co" [eggcup0020]; 2) L-O-V-E Bridgewater egg cup [eggcup1136]; 3) a piece "for the best grandma in the world", marked "Made In England" [eggcup1845]; 4) "Good morning" egg cup, highly recommended for breakfasts [eggcup3186]; 5) old children egg cup with part of the lyrics of the song "Rub-a-dub, three men in a tub, and who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, they all jumped out of a rotten potato, turn 'em out, knaves all three" (which is really supposed to convey a message, yes) [eggcup3807]; 6) very rare 1917 egg cup paying tribute to David Lloyd George, with the inscription "Dedicated to the patriotic fowl", signed by the Staffordshire girls, which was produced in the context of the First World War [eggcup2243]; egg cup to wish good luck in German produced by Achermann, in Hinterhof (Germany) [eggcup2354].

Funny figural egg cups

Smile! Here comes your soft-boiled egg.

Details of featured egg cups: 1) alien egg cup, marked Silly [eggcup1452]; 2) no further info [eggcup0427]; 3) Smiley egg cup [eggcup3850]; 4) W.C. egg cup [eggcup1720].

Please note that you might also find quite funny some of the egg cups featured on the Carlton Ware egg cups post.

Figural souvenir egg cups

A selection of elaborated souvenir egg cups... just to subtley remind you wherever you might chose to go on holiday, if you do have holidays, there's a chance they do sell egg cups! And they could even be nice, original ones.

Details from the egg cups featured: 1) Belgian souvenir ceramic egg cup [eggcup1130]; 2) marked "Paris Musées", designed by Paul Mathieu, produced by Arthus Bertrand, inspired in a piece from Paris' Musée Carnavalet [eggcup1310]; 3) marked "Antoni Gaudí, 1852-1926" [eggcup3445]; 4) Jersey souvenir [eggcup1049]; 5) Irisih leprechaun [eggcup1817].

Souvenir egg cups

Marketing egg cups as souvenir objects was a great contribution for the popularity of egg cups. Indeed, their small size and light weight makes them a very practical choice, and they have been used as 'souvenir' for decades and decades and in a wide variety of locations. Cautious travellers do prefer them in resistant materials such as metal and wood. Collectors have a preference for unique designs, as well as a particular sensibility for general accordance between the style of the egg cup and the place or monument to be remembered.

Tourist information: 1) Greece [eggcup1819]; 2) Postojna (Slovenia) [eggcup0576]; 3) Creete, with "hand made" mark, probably marketed by Neofitou [eggcup0513]; 4) piece illustrating the souvenir egg cups known as 'pinklustre', souvenir of the UK's Houses of Parliament [eggcup4598]; 5) Col d'Aubisque (France) [eggcup1458]; 6) Menin Gate (Belgium) [eggcup0898]; 7) Jerusalem [eggcup0640].

Christmas egg cups

Merry Christmas to all egg cup collectors and egg cup lovers!

Details concerning the featured pieces: 1) designed by Eddie Walker for Seasons of Cannon Falls (United States), made in China, sold for the Christmas of 2003 [eggcup3468]; 2) produced by Maebata (Japan), from the "Merry Christmas" collection [eggcup3192]; 3) made in Japan [eggcup4091]; 4) made in Japan, sold with the previous one [huevdesp14]; 5) wooden egg cup [eggcup1206]; 6) marked "Fine China" and "Made in England" [eggcup1941] 7) wooden egg cup [eggcup1205]; 8) china [eggcup0111]; 9) has a "Japan" sticker [eggcup1929].

Advertising and merchandising egg cups

Yes, some companies like to include egg cups in their advertising and merchandising strategies - and they don't necessarily have to be chocolate eggs' producers. Even French cheese companies have done it. Advertising and merchandising egg cups come in almost all materials and designs and don't always bear the name of a company in their body, although usually they will, making it easier to adscribe them to this quite attractive category. The existence of collectors of companies' memorabilia, like, for instance, Guinness memorabilia, gives this egg cups even a stronger degree of desirability.

Known details: 1) Milka, for 2003 Easter season [eggcup3465]; 2) Milka, for 2006 Easter season [eggcup4831]; 3) Cadbury's Creme Egg, 1989 [eggcup1557]; 4) Cadbury's Caramel Egg, made in England [eggcup4162]; 5) marked "Rouy d'Or, Dijon: fromage de santé", was probably given for free with the cheese [eggcup2585]; 6) Chamois d'Or, probably also given for free with the cheese [eggcup1034]; 7) Harrods, produced by Wade 1990-97 [eggcup2220] ; 8) first model of Guinness' egg cups, produced by Carlton Ware with a James Blackmore Ltd.'s licence in 1980 [eggcup2286].

Please note that in the Plastic egg cups selection you will find a chimp egg cup used by PG Tips, it's one of the famous chimps used by the company for promotion (well, famous at least in the field of egg cup collecting). In the Carlton Ware egg cups post you can see a Carlton Ware Hovis egg cup.