My mom has had a small collection of these handmade fruit from the 1950s next to her vintage salt and pepper shakers, tea pots, and those gorgeous betty lou vases since I was a little girl. They were the ubiquitous centerpiece of the family card table, and I never noticed them until I had my own table lacking its own ubiquitous centerpiece. I went out on a mission for this...jeweled fruit? Sequin fruit? Beaded fruit? For some reason no name turned up any answers on ebay. Fortunately, luck struck me twice at the flea market, and between the two trips I was fully stocked on my pretend glitter fruit. Fortunately for you, ebay now sells them under the moniker "sequin fruit." The pieces are sculpted from styrofoam, painted, and covered in sequins or beads with pins. My favorite is the orange, whose hue is almost copper and employs both sequins and beads. It looks good enough to eat! Well, almost.
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