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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 240930, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> I stopped going to "estate sales" run by people who are not the family. The women had Armetale plates, cups and saucers priced at 75 dollars EACH.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I said "what the Hell is this all about"? One of the family said that the dealer said they were rare pewter from the 1850s.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /> I said it was restaurant ware and not worth the price. Shaking my head I left. A few days later I was going by the dealers store and there it was priced at 3 dollars each. It seems that the dealer gets the pieces that do not sell. I always buy pieces of the stuff for a friend who has huge family gatherings several times a year. She was aghast when I told her what the prices were at the sale.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 240930, member: 78"]Hi, I stopped going to "estate sales" run by people who are not the family. The women had Armetale plates, cups and saucers priced at 75 dollars EACH.:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: I said "what the Hell is this all about"? One of the family said that the dealer said they were rare pewter from the 1850s.:eek::eek: I said it was restaurant ware and not worth the price. Shaking my head I left. A few days later I was going by the dealers store and there it was priced at 3 dollars each. It seems that the dealer gets the pieces that do not sell. I always buy pieces of the stuff for a friend who has huge family gatherings several times a year. She was aghast when I told her what the prices were at the sale. greg[/QUOTE]
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