Walnut Cigar Box

The antique walnut box is now listed on eBay as probably a good cigar box or a collectors box, here.

I’ve gone a bit mad with this one and rather than just listing it for 99p, I’ve started it at 99p, put on a reserve, and a buy it now of £125 which has added listing costs of £5.89 on top of the £42.25 I originally paid for it and before any final value fees!

Will it sell or am I going to regret that choice – keep calling back to find out!

Bow Tureen

I went to a fantastic ceramics seminar this last weekend at Ironbridge and took the “antique Derby tureen” with me for some second opinion. Before I get onto that I’d like to say that I highly recommend going to one of these seminars if you get the chance.

Apart from the fact that the incredibly beautiful and historic Ironbridge Gorge is well worth a visit by itself, these ceramics seminars stand alone as the best possible way to learn about early English ceramics.

Not only do you have experts there to help you, like Geoffrey Godden, Harry Frost (ex curator of the Worcester museum for 16 years), Maurice Hillis (well known expert on Liverpool porcelain), authors like Michael Berthoud, Pat Preller, and a whole host of other extremely knowledgable people like Roger Edmundson, Barry Lomax, and lots more, you also get to handle lots of pots up close and personal, and have help to identify them, AND it only costs £40 per person which includes a very good lunch!

It’s brilliant and you’ll learn so much it’s well worth the money, we always try and have a couple of extra days there to enjoy the museums too.

Anyway, the concensus of opinion was that the tureen is definitely Bow rather than Derby, and as such I’ve listed it – starting at just 99p – on eBay here.

Now, I have high hopes for this antique tureen since I have some history with it!

I first bought it off eBay when it was wrongly identified by the seller as a Staffordshire tureen, and I snapped it up for maybe £100 (I honestly can’t remember it was so long ago, but it wasn’t much).

I then sold it back on eBay for £390 correctly identified as Bow.

Last week I bought it back of eBay wrongly described as Derby for £180 – so really I’m already £100 in pocket and I have the tureen again before I even think about selling it!

I’ve made sure that I have taken lots of very clear photos, that I’ve given a good description, and I have high hopes that it’ll sell again for around £300 to £400, which would give me a great profit.

Will I make a profit from it this time around? Well you’ll just have to keep coming back to find out, won’t you!

Early Pearlware Mug

The early pearlware mug has been relisted for round 3 of my antiques hunt, you can see it on eBay here.

It’s only been listed for 4 hours and has 3 watchers, so hopefully it’ll appeal to some of them this time and will make more than the 99p that I’ve started it at – I must be CRAZY!

Keep watching to see how it does!

Pearlware Coffee Cup

Originally sold on eBay as a Drinking Mug c.1830 – 50 I’m hoping that correctly describing this as an early pearlware coffee cup (and possibly an early American one at that) will help it to make more than the £33.86p that I paid for it.

I’ve started it at £35 and that’s cost me another £1 in eBay fees, you can see the coffee cup on auction here.

Longton Hall

This beautiful little antique blue and white teabowl was made at one of the rarest of English porcelain manufacturers, which is the Longton Hall factory.

It cost me £11.09p including the postage and has been started at just 99p – if this doesn’t make a profit (despite the damage) then I really will eat my hat! You can see it’s auction here.

18th Century Creamer

The 18th Century creamer, originally bought as a vintage 14 piece coffee set has now been listed here.

The cups and saucers from this set have been listed here.

Both of these lots cost me 50p each to list, and I’ve started each at £29.99p

Antique Chinese Octagonal Bowl

The antique Chinese bowl is now listed on eBay here, I started it at 99p as well, I do hope that collectors of Chinese porcelain like it too, I really don’t know anything about Chinese porcelain!

I’m not sure that this was such a wise buy either, but surely it has to make a profit when it only cost £3.99 – surely?

Caughley Tea Caddy

I’ve now listed the Caughley tea caddy starting at 99p – let’s hope someone likes it!

I’m already wondering whether it was a good idea to buy 2 items that were clearly described as Caughley and then relisting them, we’ll see what happens though in due course – I get the feeling that I’m not going to make much from either this or the Caughley plate!

This cost £0.00 to list, and you can see it here

Caughley Plate

I’ve put the Caughley Plate onto eBay for sale now, and have started it at 99p as I will with most of the items I sell.

It cost £1.07p in listing fees and you can watch this auction here