It was a cold and windy day today; the lake was violent and viciously attacking the shoreline. In other words, it was excavation weather. When the lake calms, the beachcombing will likely be good, with a lot of fresh bits unearthed and tossed up onto the beach. In the meantime, there wasn't much to find on the beach (and not much beach to be found–the waves were coming right up to the tree line in many places). I did find this sizeable piece of transferware (on the left), pro

After a year of beachcombing on Toronto Island and finding fragments from the same china pattern, I finally identified one of the patterns I'd been finding thanks to some google image searching: Royal Doulton "Elaine" from 1887. A plate, a pitcher...while it is obvious that I have more than one piece from this set of china, I don't know if my sleuthing will take me as far as determining exactly which pieces. And now comes the next question: what do I do with the pieces now th