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In the Kitchen

Corelle in Butterfly Gold, in the 1976 Service Merchandise catalog.[7]

Catalog photo of three dinner plates, each with a matching cup and saucer in front of it: gold flowers around the rim on the left, plain white in the middle, a dark blue pattern on the right. The sets are lettered B, C and D.
Scan: Service Merchandise Spring and Summer Supplement, 1976, p. 101, via Internet Archive

Butterfly Gold on the left, plain Winter Frost White in the middle, Old Town Blue on the right, each with its cup. The page’s line: “Dine on an enchanted garden!” Page 101.

The 20-piece set’s price was in its catalog number: the last four digits, 2386, meant $23.86.[7]

Sources

  1. [7]Service Merchandise Spring and Summer Supplement, 1976, p. 101 (leaf n118), item B; the price code is explained on leaf n2

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