Featured Request for Help: Art Nouveau Iridescent Crackle Vase Silver Frame Stamped Double Headed Eagle MH

Thanks!

 

Please be careful when looking at eBay for IDing a piece. No one polices eBay, I could list my granddaughter's kindergarten ash tray as Loetz - and list it at any price I want

That said, you have continued to search and gotten answers from very knowledgeable people here. Congratulations, you have a lovely vase!

 

Sorry, but Millers' prices are utter twaddle. They vastly overrate the price things will fetch at auction and are invariably substantially out of date, just as the ones on your link are. They also don't compensate for location. Their books are designed for the populist mass market: nothing wrong with that, but they certainly aren't to be relied on for value.

I'd see that at about the £1800 to £2500 mark at auction in London, anyhow.

 

+Kovel's ^^^

For estate sale items, we source and combine/average at least 3 prices from the last year - 6 months, if possible. Retail is cut in half. (replacements.com is only for identification). But, we only have three days to sell, so that's a factor.

There are other markets, each has its own factors to weigh...

 

Sorry, didn't realize there was any question regarding the ID, would have provided helpful links (our local Morse Museum has a Loetz/Hacker lamp that always gets a long, covetous look). Below is a silverplated pewter Moritz Hacker smoker's set bearing the same mark as yours, with the Austrian Imperial warrant incorporated, rather than separate as on the Loetz example you posted:

http://m.ebay.de/itm/172374818113?_mwBanner=1

~Cheryl