How to sell royal doulton china
Which bone china to collect when there are so many choices?
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hello it's Megan Bayless from vintage
cottage craft babinda just with a couple
of tips on what sort of fine bone china
to collect apart from something that's
really pretty like this plate it really
is very attractive but it's not very
valuable and I'm about to explain why
there's certain things to look for so
anything that comes from the
Staffordshire Potteries Staffordshire is
an area of England and it's made up what
was made up of five different towns that
were all into pottery grab it it's great
stuff look at the back stamp so on the
back of every piece of China most pieces
of China are beg your pardon there will
be a back stamp now have a look at that
do some research you want one that's got
a crown and aligned on it because with
the crown and the line it usually
signifies that there was a royal decree
a royal order a royal seal of approval
so that's the sort of stuff that becomes
really collectible also look for the
words either England or made in England
now this is very important but also it
must be the words must be under the
glaze so when I run my fingers over this
I can feel that it's raised which means
that it's transfer where the transfer is
above the glaze but in the vintage China
it's going to be underneath the glaze so
when you run your finger over it's nice
and smooth that's very important now the
words England not made in England but
just in England signifies that it's late
19th century
so from around about 1883 perhaps until
the turn of the century at the turn of
the century there was a change in law
export laws from America and they
stipulated that any of the imports had
to state where they were made so the
English fine bone china started to say
made in england now i've got a couple of
examples here this one is a very very
pretty little plates little pin dish or
a little butter dish does anybody know
what it is let me turn it around and see
if you can see it it's actually Shelley
and it says England so I instantly know
but this one is from the late 1800s so
the late 19th century when I run my
fingers over it I can feel that it is
hand painters because I can conceal the
the glaze and I'm also concerned that
maybe if the paint could contain lead so
I don't put food in that one now a
different one is this beautiful little
ball here on the back I run my fingers
over and I can feel that it's not
transfer aware but it says on this one
England so what does that mean does that
mean that it is turn-of-the-century or
was it late late nineteenth century
I have to do some research because this
plate is actually around about 1930 it
pays to do your research to work it all
out now what else have we got here I
want to show you something very very
beautiful Australian pottery that people
don't often think of excuse me while I
grab this gorgeous teapot look at this
now this is st. kilda the gold honor is
said to be 22 karat gold
there's absolutely beautiful the back
stamp on it is definitely st. kilda you
probably can't see that because the back
stamp is so small it is st. kilda which
is a suburb of Melbourne a very nice
suburb nowadays and here we have a
matching tea tree oh very very nice
it'll set this one and I have the
complete tea and copy set beautiful but
the reason I'm showing you this is
because there's not a lot of research
around about st. kilda in any of the
Australia and find China Potteries that
doesn't actually say that it's fine
China but what we do have is we have
white on the inside white underneath
like no no guilt glaze same on the
saucer and then the same on the cake
plates so what's going on there it's
commonly believed that say Kilda bought
white blanks from more
Dalton and that when they're in
Australia when they got to Australia
they gilded them up they made beautiful
gold sets
now this one is circa 1963 very very
pretty and I collect not only valuable
things that are going to improve in
value but also pretty things like this
and this so Cheers
just joking I wouldn't really drink out
of it
