China Patterns: The Rare & Valuable

The 50 most rare and valuable china patterns - collage post banner

Hello Lovely Peonies. Which china patterns are rare? Which are popular? Which are overdone? And how do I know if a pattern is valuable? My e-mail has been flooded with these kind of questions lately as well as requests for plate identification help (see this post on ID and this post for determining value). I’m…

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What’s My Antique Dish Worth?

Title graphic: Wedgwood purple floral plates with text overlay: What's my antique dish worth?

5 Tips to help you determine the worth of your antique or vintage dinnerware! Today, I wanted to share some of my advice on collecting and/or re-selling antique dishes and determining the value. Obviously, the first step in determining value is to identify the maker and pattern. My process for plate identification is detailed in…

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Plate ID: How I Research & Identify Antique Plates

Group of blue and white and floral English antique plates - how to research and identify antique plates

Need help identifying your antique dishes? Learn my step by step method for researching and identifying antique plates! If you are a regular P&P reader, you know I have a keen affinity for plates. As I’ve said before and I’ll reiterate here…each one of these round beauties is a little work of art! And I…

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