The Goose and the Golden Egg

The Last Egg

The last egg in my collection of eleven has also appeared previously on this blog in “Go Withs“. It is half of this set: It is a golden egg, and so it goes with a goose. In the light if the relative size of the egg and the goose, and if I am right inContinue reading “The Last Egg”

Go-Withs

A lot of the sets of shakers in my collection are what the world of salt-and-pepper-set collectors, apparently, call “go-withs”–the ones I like to call binary opposites: the shakers depict two quite different objects that have some logical or linguistic collection to each other, like the common opposites of black and white or good andContinue reading “Go-Withs”