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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;paulsspangle, post: 71358, member: 874&quot;]May I boast a rather lovely find... </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH]18487[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]18488[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]18486[/ATTACH][ATTACH]18485[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These were advertised as &quot;Royal Albert plates&quot;. I knew immediately that they weren&#039;t from that manufacturer but it was only when I saw the back stamp that I started to get a bit excited. Intrigued, I bought them for, as we English people of a certain age say, &quot;a song&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I consulted a local auction house expert, who also happens to be one of the valuers on the UK&#039;s BBC television programme &quot;Antiques Roadshow&quot;. He confirmed what I thought... they ARE Meissen. </p><p><br /></p><p>He told me that they&#039;re mid to late 1800s, outside decorated, probably at Dresden. </p><p><br /></p><p>The plates very much resemble the Watteau based pattern on the Three Emperors Service seen on the Meissen website, produced to mark a peace meeting between Austro-Hungarian monarch Franz Joseph I, the German Kaiser Wilhelm I and the Russian czar Alexander II, and presented to the King of Saxony. These too would almost certainly have been outside decorated due to the sheer number of pieces to be worked on. </p><p><br /></p><p>My plates, while confirmed to be Meissen and hand painted, sadly have no provenance so can&#039;t be described as from this service although it&#039;s got to be a strong possibility. Nonetheless they&#039;re a remarkable find and have been valued by the BBC Antiques Roadshow expert to be worth an auction price of between £400 and £600 UK sterling. </p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re very carefully packed away and I don&#039;t know quite what to do with them. I can&#039;t see them coming out on display here, at least until I buy a sealed cabinet. I have cats... can you imagine how I&#039;d feel if they knocked the plates down and smashed them?![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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