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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9725306, member: 10944"]Yeh Christofle is interesting. It sells incredibly well, you’re correct. The quality and design is definitely good so I understand why people like it. I don’t quite understand why it commands such high prices though. There are comparable quality plated goods available that would sell for a small fraction of a similar Christofle piece. I was incredibly lucky once to buy an auction lot of sterling that also included some unnamed silverplate without photos of the marks. Turned out to all be Christofle. I did better on it than the sterling. There was 6-8 pieces or so. I guess along with the quality it’s just the name, like Tiffany & Co. or something. Tiffany silver which was often made by big named firms will sell for multiples of comparable pieces made by the same company. You could have a Gorham piece made for Tiffany next to a Gorham piece of even better quality and the Tiffany marked piece will sell for much more. “What's in a name? That which we call a rose,</p><p>By any other name would smell as sweet.” ….may smell as sweet, but it won’t sell as sweet![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9725306, member: 10944"]Yeh Christofle is interesting. It sells incredibly well, you’re correct. The quality and design is definitely good so I understand why people like it. I don’t quite understand why it commands such high prices though. There are comparable quality plated goods available that would sell for a small fraction of a similar Christofle piece. I was incredibly lucky once to buy an auction lot of sterling that also included some unnamed silverplate without photos of the marks. Turned out to all be Christofle. I did better on it than the sterling. There was 6-8 pieces or so. I guess along with the quality it’s just the name, like Tiffany & Co. or something. Tiffany silver which was often made by big named firms will sell for multiples of comparable pieces made by the same company. You could have a Gorham piece made for Tiffany next to a Gorham piece of even better quality and the Tiffany marked piece will sell for much more. “What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.” ….may smell as sweet, but it won’t sell as sweet![/QUOTE]
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