What is my fine china worth?

Nearly every day someone asks us "What is my china worth?" This is a difficult question. It has only one truly correct answer. That answer does not always make people happy. If you have pieces from the 1600's or 1700's, they should be in a museum. Such fine china can bring exceptional prices. However, such china is mostly already in museums and so exceptional prices are usually not the case. If you have a set of china its value depends on rarity, condition and demand. Secondarily those factors affect each individual piece. If a potter made a thousand saucers and only seven platters, the platters could be expected to sell for more. However if there are only six people in the world using that pattern and all of them have a broken saucer and all of them have perfect platters, the value of saucers goes up as demand goes up. The value of that seventh platter however dwindles. The moment that Uncle Ned drops and breaks a platter at Christmas dinner, the market for platters jumps. Condition is the next most important. Dealing with discontinued china, chips and cracks can destroy 90% of a pieces value. Unless you are dealing with truly antique china, by which I mean from the 19th century or earlier, chips, cracks, "fleabites" or repairs destroy the desirability and value ,of a piece. You can always email us with a description or picture of your china. It helps us to know your manufacturer and pattern name. That is not always necessary though. Examine your china and it may well have the manufacturers name or a symbol on the back. It may have other words or numbers written there. In some cases that will help to identify it. However, that is not always the case. In some cases we are interested and able to make an offer for pieces that our customers want now. In other cases we are unable to purchase but we can offer you a consignment option. This is advantageous to you because we only take a percentage on the sale. We are inspired to make as much as possible for you because we make nothing until you make money. We advertise your china, so we spend money before we make anything. We are accepting various patterns for listing on our site for up to a year. We will store, advertise your china for as long as a year by completing a simple consignment contract. This will in most cases return far more to you than selling your china at auction or yard sale prices. Unless you happen to be extremely lucky you might be disappointed to find that your "heirloom" china is only able to bring twenty or thirty dollars in a local market. We offer you the world as a marketplace. When you use our consignment process, we will determine the market rate and do our best to get a fair price for everyone. Because we research it daily, you don't have to do the homework to find out "What is my china worth?". There is only one correct answer. Your china is worth what a buyer will pay for it right now. Doesn't it make sense to have as many buyers as possible looking?