Hello everyone!
During my research on items in my moms estate, I found your boards and thought I'd say Hi and ask a few questions.
As you might guess from the subject line, my questions c...
The "maker" of such items would mostly be unknown and non-relevant as they made 'branded' items for distributors, resellers, whatever. Your mark points in the direction of US resel...
No I'm not a collector. I have several items I'v collected but no theam.Just stuff I like. Mostly I purchase items to try to build cases for. I truly enjoy working with my hands. Building th...
...ms' require that you pay (e.g. per release or monthly) nobody can come around after years demanding items that where never paid for.
Also, gold replicas of stamps were not issued by the post o...
All of these Erich Stauffer items were made in Japan and distributed on the US market via importers like Arnart, Home Interiors & Gifts (a.k.a. HomCo) and such.
While these were pretty dominant...
Items with this mark are claimed to be recent Asian (Chinese/Taiwanese) imports whereas other people say Phillipines/Sri Lanka. Not that it matters anyway as the quality is even below what was importe...
...ne can definately say that it's neither a Hummel nor a Goebel as the rumors of 'unmarked' items from both are mere legends one can concentrate on a few other manufacturers. Other German...
...; in this case was a trademark (since 1928) of British retailer "Marks & Spencer" and many items made for them came from all over the place and were merely marked with the brand name (un...
The price of items such as crucifixes can vary gretly depending on the value that the person attach to their religious significance or their artistic one.
You can try have it estimated in places such...
I doubt that there is a catolog of their items available - after all much more sought after manufacturers like "Reinhold Schlegelmilch" with worldwide hundreds of collectors and fans have no...
...y find a two year old book that gives you and estimate of say, US$300. However you find five of the same items on eBay now that do not sell for each US$30 only. So what is the 'value'? Nobod...
Generally speaking unmarked items should always put folks on red alert no matter who is selling it, private person or antique store. Descriptions like 'late 1880s' appear frequently together...
...ect manufacturer - and that would be a hard job as we are talking of over 650 possibilities.
Unmarked items are near impossible to ID and then one has to think about the fact that even very well st...
...many people describe as "figures of poor quality" as they are sub-par when compared with other items of the same manufacturing period.
Originally made somewhere in Asia these figurines we...
The 'value' of these items is merely based on what a person is willing to pay as they are not official postage items. As such, there is no official catalog or price scale applicable as liter...
...ectibles, but they really have no serious commercial value now, nor will they ever. I sometimes buy such items if the art work might be of use in an album or on a web page. All the collectors I know v...
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W.H. Plummer part:
Was a retailer in New York that sold a large range of porcelain and glass items. Even if this customers mostly belonged to the NY upper class, the quality of the items g...
... hence only very small numbers of Occupied China products ever surfaced elsewhere.
Does not make such items really 'rare' (read as: worth gazillions) as they are merely interesting pieces...
...oining the Pro Merchant prorgam on Amazon, since I`ll be workin my way up to at least 1200 or so stock items by year`s end. Fortunately I have two questions:
1) Do you consider it worthwile to j...
...le effort simply is not worth it as prices are way down south - especially when looking at crazing-prone items like British stoneware or early Villeroy&Boch as these items tend to degrade rapidly ...
...to the completed auctions and see what Austin sculptures are sell at. That is how you find the value of items today. Rose...
how to post items in auction ebay
...is a site where i can find out what the markings are on the bottom of the figurines i have and other odd items?...
You can sell it to many vintage shops they are searching for items like this.
perhaps searching through the yuan dynasty items will result in some solution?
http://shop.ebay .com/items/?_nkw=commemorative+society&_armrs=1
The PR and crown looked stamped on it as items do have in mass production...
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