posted on April 25, 2007 03:35:46 PM
The set I have has about 5 different marks on the various pieces. Are some more valuable than others, i.e. the Flying "F"?
Is USA better than England?
posted on April 25, 2007 06:09:00 PM
As far as I know, all of the USA marks bring about the same. The England mark is newer, and doesn't seem to have the value of the older pieces. I believe it's still being made in England.
posted on April 26, 2007 07:33:21 AM
I've only sold three pieces of this pattern, about 4 years ago. Got these trivets for a dollar each at a thrift shop, sold them each for an average of $95. It seems there are two shapes of DR trivets--round and square--and they're rather small. As I recall, the square ones aren't rare; the round ones are. I was astonished at the prices they brought--and I don't recall what marks they had except that all the marks were roughly the same.
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posted on April 26, 2007 10:59:52 AM
The color of the print tells the age. It was hand painted originally and the colors are a little different. Franciscan started out making bathroom tile in this pattern and tryed the dishes for the heck of it. I think there was 108 different pieces in the set on the Desert Rose and Apple patterns. I use to be a China Buyer 30 years ago.
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posted on April 26, 2007 05:47:30 PM
I had quite a bit of it at one time...now I've got a service for four and some of the serving pieces. I sold a service for 8 and most of my serving pieces a year or two ago on eBay.
Prices were nowhere near book, unless it was very rare. Cups/Saucers were horrible. Serving pieces did well.
The older it is the better. The hand painted design on the Wedgewood pieces is inferior to the older items.
Wedgewood, last I knew, still markets this pattern. You could get it in the china section at finer department stores..$50.00 a place setting, I think.
