Featured Nippon porcelain salt cellars salt dishes - Age and Maker?

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by Mansons2005, Aug 21, 2019.

  1. dgbjwc

    dgbjwc Well-Known Member

    Sorry everyone, late to the party again! I'd go with "Set of Six BIBI Nippon Nut Dishes - Autumn Trees, Cobalt & Gold Decoration". I think the title will fit into Ebay's title block. They're a bit large for salts. I think Bakersgma is correct that they could be nut dishes. If they don't sell as nut dishes you can always relist them as salts! I've cut my descriptions to the bone - size and condition, combined shipping offered, thanks for looking. Long descriptions never seemed to help me with a sale.

    The BIBI mark turns up a little too frequently here in the US, I think, to have been solely used for exports to Lebanon but you never know!
    Don
     
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  2. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    Thanks Don - I no longer sell on eBay (I use Bonanza), but the title is right up my alley - thank you! I too use a sparse, almost catalouge format for descriptions - templates I developed years ago. The salt vs nuts information is noted (though possibly salted nuts?), again, thank you.
     
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  3. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    They are charmers, and well photographed. I don't think knowing the maker is going to help with this sale. I think Don has the right approach, but maybe tuck "slip" into the title - 'gold slip decoration'.

    Searching Nippon porcelain nut dishes might turn up some comparables to give an idea of price.
     
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  4. janetpjohn

    janetpjohn Well-Known Member

    I think individual sauce dishes, for dipping food.
     
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  5. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    Thanks every one for aiding me with my salted nuts dipping sauce dishes............:woot:
    :woot:

    Thanks for the comments on the photos as well - just for the record the first photo on black? I take the same photo on white as the primary photo so that Google picks it up - they hate black backgrounds. But I like the way most porcelain presents on black, so I double shoot the primary..................
     
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  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    My mother would have put cooked string beans in them. The sauce suggestion is a good one.
     
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  7. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I only heard of Bonanza for the first time yesterday after finding that Collectors Weekly has now added their listings to ones from eBay in their lists of things for sale.

    What are its virtues for a seller?
     
  8. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    The shape and size is typical for celery salts, usually originally part of a set with a matching long celery dish...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  9. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    First the down side - it is nowhere near as busy as eBay. The traffic is still quite slo, though they just hit the ten year mark. But since I manage so many clients who sell on eBay it is unethical for me to sell there as well, so I had little choice

    I do fairly well, though I could not live on the sales. I find that my "best sellers" are tableware (old & new) and some home decor. I have sold almost all of the stock I got from a museum gift shop that closed down - all NIB merchandise. Weird things sell (1 full mile of vintage embroidery thread, a very large glass pot cover, etc.), and I get fairly good prices.

    Here is a hodgepodge of points, in no particular order (more a stream of consciousnesses):

    There is no cost to list (up to 5k?10k? items),
    you can import all of your eBay listings,
    payments go to PayPal, though they are adding Stripe and something else(?)
    their customer service is still one on one for the most part - my emails have been answered (with WORDS not a script) within hours mostly,
    there are many restricted items, including the usual,
    feedback is almost completely ignored,
    you have the opportunity to live chat with customers if they wish,
    there are a few different "levels", none of which I have investigated,
    they provide a fairly good breakdown of the source of views (google, bing, etc.) for free,

    I have a write-up somewhere (I think I posted it here a few years ago) and if I can find it I'll let you know
     
  10. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

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    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

  12. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Thank you. It did feel sparse to me, compared with eBay, like a B&M store that has goods all spread out to make shelves look full. I need to catalyze myself & start getting stuff out of here. May check it out. Thanks again. :)
     
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  13. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    Personally, would also still mention almond/nut dishes (who dips their celery in salt these days?)

    ~Cheryl
     
  14. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    I'm actually going to try and fit ALL possibilities in the desc. - without it reading like an inventory.............
     
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  15. janetpjohn

    janetpjohn Well-Known Member

    Silly Janet, should have known they weren't sauce dishes in a set of six.
     
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  16. Mansons2005

    Mansons2005 Nasty by Nature, Curmudgeon by Choice

    They would suit this purpose quite well, though in my second thought process, most of the wares such as this were produced for the "Western" market - and beyond celery into salt, I can't see many WASPS dipping their Beef Wellington into ANYTHING before chomping down on a tasty morsel at a dinner table...........

    but I shall squeeze the reference into a description, as many WannaBe's still love to emulate the cultures they really know little of............so tres chic, N'est-ce pas?
     
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  17. janetpjohn

    janetpjohn Well-Known Member

    Yes, like I can't see Japanese people with a celery set. All exports. I use my little sauce dishes when we have gyoza, but they mostly sit patiently on the top shelf. They're too small for French dip sandwiches or much of anything, really. I mean, who uses individual nut dishes?
     
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