the hard-to-find lazy one

Today, I restocked sunflower seeds for the feeders. Across the street from TSC is a Red Racks (for anyone unfamiliar, the thrift store chain that benefits the DAV), so I stopped in to scan a few shelves. Just as I turned around to leave, I glanced at their “fancy stuff” shelf in the front window.

And there I found a complete Wexford lazy susan! Like all nine pieces. With the nickel-plated wire spinner base and everything!

The lazy susan uses the fourteen inch scalloped-edge platter and the basic salad bowl, which are both rather common. I have assembled the equivalent of two sets over the past two years, but had not even seen a reasonably priced wire spinner base. Also, these are the first Wexford sectional dishes I have found. My cobbled sets use the sectional dishes from the Early American Prescut lazy susan.

The Wexford sectional dishes have a starburst on the bottom, typical of the collection. Also, the Wexford platter slopes up to the outer edge, unlike the EAPC platter, so the Wexford sectional dish also slopes. The depth at the outer edge being shallower than that of the inner edge.

The wire spinner base is common to other Anchor Hocking pieces. I know that the same base is, at the least, also used for the EAPC lazy susan. Two upper loops hug the scalloped edge of the platter, and the other two loops extend above it, creating handles to carry the assembled set.

Oddly, the center bowl doesn’t sit all the way down on the platter, it rests on the inner edges of the sectional dishes. Once I found some of the larger scalloped edged bowls, I used them in my cobbled sets and I’ll do the same with this one.

The scalloped bowl has a bigger capacity and it sits down on the platter directly.

Seriously, this is the best day-after-Christmas gift for which I could have hoped. Online, the prices for this set often go as high as a hundred dollars. This set was marked at sixteen ninty-eight. And my rewards account had earned a twenty percent off coupon! Such a sweet post-holiday find.