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Question:
I bought 4 "TV Dinner" divided trays along with few other pieces of Town & Country dinnerware pieces.They are marked Red Wing USA,are they also Town & country by Eva Zeisel? I cannot find any other examples.If so your guestimate of value,I have 4 in mint condition,2 chartreuse,2 rust. Kristin
Answer: The Town & Country dinnerware pattern was designed by Eva Zeisel. Red Wing introduced Town & Country in 1947 and produced it until 1956. In 1951 Red Wing introduced Informal Supper Service.
To my knowledge Eva Zeisel did not design the Festive or Patio trays. Because they were introduced several years after the Town & Country pattern it is more likely that somebody else designed the trays and the Festive cup and came up with the Informal Supper Service concept. You have four Festive trays and cups, two each in Copper Glow and in Chartreuse. These trays are fairly common but cups are a bit more difficult to find. Value for one tray and cup in mint condition is around $25.
Larry
Informal Supper Service consisted of Town and Country pieces decorated in the four solid colors borrowed from the Quartette dinneware pattern: Ming Green, Mulberry, Copper Glow and Chartreuse (Concord Chartreuse, not the lighter Town and Country Chartreuse). Available pieces included bowls, sugar, creamer, salt & pepper, teapot, baker, relish dish, casserole, marmite and Lazy Susan with 7 relish dishes and condiment server (mustard jar). These pieces were intended to be used with the newly introduced Festive and Patio divided supper trays and cups. Festive trays were oblong and had a squarish cup; Patio trays were shaped like an artist’s palette and had a cup borrowed from Town and Country.