posted on October 27, 2000 07:31:21 PM new
Hi!
The other night, I was reading "Decorating" magazine, doinf some wishful thinking, and came across the article titled "The Transfer of Style".
Here is the reason for my excitement: My stepfather won an entire set (servings for 8 plus serving dishes) at a local boardwalk game, many many, years ago, for a 50 cent play. My mother has since given me a couple boxes of dishes.... some of which are part of this set. The name of the line is called "Blue Willow". She gave me these dishes in the original box, but unfortunately, there are only a few pieces from the original set, the rest are odds and ends.
Anyway, this magazine says that transferware is a highly collectable item now, and being in the auction frame of mind, I'm wondering how much to start the bid at!
Any suggestions? The particular item in queston is a 9" round serving bowl. As soon as I can, I'll try to post a pic.
Thanks in advance for any info you might have!
posted on October 27, 2000 07:48:08 PM new
i think the value of blue willow depends on who made the pieces and when they were made. Values are very different depending on the maker.
Is there a mark on the bottom and what does it say?
there are sections on ebay for blue willow, also homer laughlin blue willow does well in the homer laughlin pottery section.
posted on October 28, 2000 03:44:22 PM new
I remember my Mom and Dad getting into an outrageous fight over some Blue Willow when they got divorced many moons ago, so it must be worth something, lol
posted on October 28, 2000 05:49:41 PM new
Thanks to the both of you for responding to my post!
Maybe tomorrow I'll have a bit of time to try to do some research, see what eBay has up for auction already, so on and so forth.
I have so many antiques and no idea what they're worth. Never thought of selling them (seriously, anyway). I even have a "hoosier" if that's what it's called, from WW2 Germany, and a couple of other pieces from that period. My mother in law brought them over when she came to the states. They were apparently passed down in her family. She was going to trash them when she moved to Florida!! I also have an antique cranberry scoop, a 12 sided hand blown bottle my uncle dug up in the woods, and a whole housefull of stuff I have just packratted over the years. If we ever move, it's gonna be hell, if I keep it all.
The transferware thing got me started on looking at everything I own and wondering if I'm sitting on a small fortune or a pipedream.
OK back to my other pipedream...getting rich on eBay....
posted on October 28, 2000 08:45:57 PM new
Transferware's been around for - what, some 160 years? There's a wide variety of stuff out there, and equally disparate values. You can spend hundreds on an early tureen, or $8 on a mid-19th century plate (which is what I did).
Assuming transferware = valuable is as reasonable as assuming glass = valuable. Although both might be collected by somebody somewhere, there's a tad bit of difference between Loetz and Libbey.
posted on October 29, 2000 11:30:58 AM new
OH MY GOSH!!! Enchanted, I took your advise..... There is SO much listed on eBay it isn't even funny! And from different regions of the world. I couldn't find any that were marked USA on the bottom. I think I'm going to have to take it to the antique dealer that I get my film stills from and see what he has to say. In the meantime, it looks really nice on my coffee table!
(By the way, remember my post about the vintage photograph of the car that I couldn't get the image to come up here on? Well, I listed it, with a suggestion of what it might be, was emailed several times by people dating the car from 1903 to 1909. Starting bid was $9.99 and the winning bid was.....ready? $52.99!!!!!)
HCQ - I hope today is finding you feeling much better!
Kiheicat - how do you phonetically say your name? You're gonna find this funny or flattering, but I got a new kitten about a month ago, and yours was the first name that came to mind as his name. I LOVE IT!! Was meaning to post to you about it, but then you responded here, so being WAY off of the thread subject (which doesn't seem to be uncommon here) I thought I'd ask.
