RESTORING REPAIRING VINTAGE POTTERY Do you love vintage pottery, but perhaps not the prices some pieces command? Beginner collectors can purchase pieces of vintage art pottery,by such makers as McCoy,...
To help fight fraudulent sales of glass on eBay, we thought it might be useful to understand some of the ways dishonest dealers manipulate buyers into thinking they are getting a piece of first-run or original...
Fiesta Fraud! CONTEMPORARY VS. VINTAGE I am writing this in hopes to help you buyers out there to beware of the fiesta NEW VS Vintage Fiesta! Many times there may be a seller which just really has no clue...
VISIONS CorningWare, Spice O' Life Corning Ware, CORELLE and VISIONS Ceramic Glass Why Who What When Where and How: General Info first: It will outlive all of us! To Cook in the oven, microwave,...
ANTIQUE VICTORIAN MAJOLICA A Collector's Guide to Authentication Spotting Reproductions and Fakes What it is, what it isn't, where it came from, and how to recognize it. Where it came from: Majolica...
Currier Ives Dinnerware is the most popular pattern ever produced by the Royal China Company of Sebring, Ohio. This dinnerware, with scenes from Currier Ives prints, was produced from 1950 to 1986. It was...
Early American Prescut or EAPC has been around since 1960 and is one of the more popular glassware patterns on eBay today. This guide is intended to assist collectors in finding and identifying EAPC pieces...
On modern Herend china, the number and letter sequence on the underside is a pattern and piece identification system, not a registration number, serial number or limited edition number. Knowing what the...
BLUE WILLOW is the the most famous most popular china pattern ever produced. It seems as if everyone's grandmother had at least a piece or two. This guide will give you some background on the history of...
Collecting Vintage Fiesta Ware:First buy a good Fiesta Ware book. (I like Huxford's Encyclopedia of Fiesta) And, before you read it, look at the pictures. After that, use what you've already seen and the...