Why Nobody Wants Fine China Anymore
Eleanor Hayes
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🔗 Learn What Your China, Crystal, Figurines, Hummels And Linens Are Really Worth, Room By Room: https://eleanorhayes.netlify.app
A full service of fine china that once cost a small fortune now sells at auction for around ninety dollars and some charity shops will not take a complete set. Unlike grandmother’s silver, china has no metal floor, so most of what sits behind the glass can fall all the way to nothing.
This video walks through the collapse of the formal service: how a nation of wedding registries produced millions of matching sets, why younger households will not store them, and how microwave gold, dishwasher wear, and the end of the multi-course table finished the job. It also names the minority that went the other way — Meissen, Sèvres, Herend, Flora Danica, and a short list of discontinued bridal patterns that collectors still hunt piece by piece.
You will learn how to read the country mark for era, why a gravy boat can outsell a stack of dinner plates, and how to price against sold records rather than hopeful listings. Keep one piece for the memory. Eat Tuesday dinner off the rest. Photograph the cabinet before a box leaves.
0:00 The cabinet nobody eats from
0:42 China has no floor
1:30 The woman who chose her pattern
2:02 Whole-House Appraisal System
2:37 How everybody came to own a set
3:25 Why the market collapsed
7:48 The buyers who are left
8:52 How to read the bottom
10:20 The houses that never fell
11:24 Flora Danica
12:16 Patterns that still hold
13:50 Serving pieces and condition
14:34 Sold is a price
15:19 Do not save it unused
16:44 What pattern is in your cabinet
What pattern is in your cabinet right now, and when did your family last eat off it?
Everything from this channel, every room of the house, every mark and every sold price, is in the Whole-House Appraisal System:
https://eleanorhayes.netlify.app/
This is general guidance, not a formal appraisal. Price against sold results, not asking prices.
#finechina #bonechina #royaldoulton #floradanica #estatesale #grandmaschina #vintagechina
11 Comments
Dishwasher everyday no problems if one breaks I toss it no worries…
And it fails at that too
Middle class is going extinct if you're a young adult who has some money to spare your not going to impress anyone buying some crappy plates.
You have to sell to somebody who has a couple of years left to live who wants the stuff.
Now if you want some you have the many people who inherited and want to sell.
Also some was made with toxic paint because it was only intended as wall art.
Why Nobody Wants Fine China Anymore
Eleanor Hayes
4,611 views
🔗 Learn What Your China, Crystal, Figurines, Hummels And Linens Are Really Worth, Room By Room: https://eleanorhayes.netlify.app
A full service of fine china that once cost a small fortune now sells at auction for around ninety dollars and some charity shops will not take a complete set. Unlike grandmother’s silver, china has no metal floor, so most of what sits behind the glass can fall all the way to nothing.
This video walks through the collapse of the formal service: how a nation of wedding registries produced millions of matching sets, why younger households will not store them, and how microwave gold, dishwasher wear, and the end of the multi-course table finished the job. It also names the minority that went the other way — Meissen, Sèvres, Herend, Flora Danica, and a short list of discontinued bridal patterns that collectors still hunt piece by piece.
You will learn how to read the country mark for era, why a gravy boat can outsell a stack of dinner plates, and how to price against sold records rather than hopeful listings. Keep one piece for the memory. Eat Tuesday dinner off the rest. Photograph the cabinet before a box leaves.
0:00 The cabinet nobody eats from
0:42 China has no floor
1:30 The woman who chose her pattern
2:02 Whole-House Appraisal System
2:37 How everybody came to own a set
3:25 Why the market collapsed
7:48 The buyers who are left
8:52 How to read the bottom
10:20 The houses that never fell
11:24 Flora Danica
12:16 Patterns that still hold
13:50 Serving pieces and condition
14:34 Sold is a price
15:19 Do not save it unused
16:44 What pattern is in your cabinet
What pattern is in your cabinet right now, and when did your family last eat off it?
Everything from this channel, every room of the house, every mark and every sold price, is in the Whole-House Appraisal System:
https://eleanorhayes.netlify.app/
This is general guidance, not a formal appraisal. Price against sold results, not asking prices.
#finechina #bonechina #royaldoulton #floradanica #estatesale #grandmaschina #vintagechina