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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 85419, member: 78"]Hi Loro,</p><p> Neiman Marcus bought a lot of Chinese pieces in the late70s and early 80s. As did a lot of upper end department stores. A Chinese curator from the Met and I spent nearly 5 hrs in Altmans dept store in Manhattan looking through a large I mean large stack of Chinese vases and porcelain plates. We found 5 really old plates mixed in with the "antique's and newer plates. Only one old vase (175 yrs old) the 5 plates were over 200 years old. I think we paid 75 dollars for the 6 pieces. I know my share when they were sold was 3k that was profit. When we were done I felt a little better about picking out pieces than I did in the beginning. I wanted to go to Bloomingdales the next day but it was about 3 weeks later. I found one really old plate which I still have. I miss the old flea markets on Canal St. My best Chinese sale was a plate I found for 1 dollar at a yard sale in Denmark in 1980. It brought over seven hundred dollars when I sold it. I wish I had held on to it until 5 years ago. My Met lady told me it would have gone for 4 thousand then.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 85419, member: 78"]Hi Loro, Neiman Marcus bought a lot of Chinese pieces in the late70s and early 80s. As did a lot of upper end department stores. A Chinese curator from the Met and I spent nearly 5 hrs in Altmans dept store in Manhattan looking through a large I mean large stack of Chinese vases and porcelain plates. We found 5 really old plates mixed in with the "antique's and newer plates. Only one old vase (175 yrs old) the 5 plates were over 200 years old. I think we paid 75 dollars for the 6 pieces. I know my share when they were sold was 3k that was profit. When we were done I felt a little better about picking out pieces than I did in the beginning. I wanted to go to Bloomingdales the next day but it was about 3 weeks later. I found one really old plate which I still have. I miss the old flea markets on Canal St. My best Chinese sale was a plate I found for 1 dollar at a yard sale in Denmark in 1980. It brought over seven hundred dollars when I sold it. I wish I had held on to it until 5 years ago. My Met lady told me it would have gone for 4 thousand then. greg[/QUOTE]
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