Anybody into fine china????

babun

Starting to clean out the GF's collections.

I have a complete service for 8 {plus spares} of
Eva Zeisel Hallcraft fine dinning ware in the almost
impossible to find "Harlequin" pattern.
About 80 pieces with all the odd items such as egg holders, covered
serving plates, S&P shakers, coffee pots, sugars, salt servers, cups,plates, candle sticks. EVERYTHING to set a formal table.

Again this is the Harlequin pattern from 1955, which is the most sort after design she made.

If any interest, I'll put it up on auction here starting at $2000.

Here is just a few of the pieces and prices. Notice that 90% of the items are NOT available!!
I got them.[:D]


http://www.replacements.com/webquote/HLLHAR.htm

1911a1-fan

replacements.com pieces go for sometimes 5X the actual value, we have been selling china and glassware since 1997, we sell to replacements when they offer a higher price than you could sell it for on fleabay


I just checked there on your pattern, a set of 4 cups and saucers are going for 27.50, 9" vegetable bowl 12.51


these are sold items
http://tinyurl.com/nhkbu2q



serving dishes typically get a higher premium, we learned years ago it is best to break up a set and sell individual pieces , it starts a bidding war , and just as an example your egg holder may be the one single piece that goes through the roof, but someone will not pay 2k for that piece and get stuck reselling the rest



good luck

tapwater

..This has to be a first time topic! My idea of dinner ware is heavy duty paper plates, Solo cups and the heavy plastic "silver" ware. On the very rare occasion, we might use the Corning ware. A gravy boat is a Revere ware pan and a dollar store ladle.
..You do have a very nice set for which someone will gladly pay your asking price. Good luck...[^]

Smitty500mag

My wife and my mom both like the Royal Albert Old Country Roses. E-bay knocked the bottom out of the prices on China and most other collectable stuff.

babun

Ebay has ruined the fine china market.[xx(]

Yeap 1911, I have looked at the completed auctions on ebay.
My money items are all the odd things I have doubles and triples of.

like 3 sets of the S &P shakers, and those large serving platters, there must be 4 of them.

Guess I'm gonna have to pull the ebay account out of the moth balls...

[:(]

Just hoping some one wanted a full set.[^]

1911a1-fan

we caught fleabay when it first started, for 5 years we where in heaven, fireking was hot

Martha stewart had fireking jadeite on her show which drove it through the roof, we scooped up on every piece we could find, a set of 4 mixing bowls where going for 600 bucks, I lucked out once and found a full box of cups and saucers for 20 bucks, sold them by the piece for over 500, then to top it off the box was apparently rare, we sold it to the author of "fireking book" Gene Florence for 120 bucks, my wife got mention and a pic of the box in one of his books


frankoma pottery was hot, made thousands off a 50 dollar investment from a local auction, one soap dish {Christmas edition} sold for 120 bucks

blue ridge dinnerware , wife purchased a box of it at a fleamarket for 15 bucks, I was trying to teach her how to negotiate a bargain, I said he only wanted 10, she pieced it out for 650 bucks, I never had heard the end of that

since then everyone has robbed their attics and grandmothers and dropped the price of everything from hall pottery to McCoy cookie jars

babun

I remember that Martha green stuff fad.[:0]

I also have over 100 Hall water pitchers/refrig. jugs/ice pitchers.

Except for some odd red ones, what was selling for $35 years ago, now is worth $9.[V]