https://www.retrowaste.com/dating-vintage-dinnerware-by-words-found-in-marks/ Collection of Vintage & Retro Stuff! Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.32 https://www.retrowaste.com/dating-vintage-dinnerware-by-words-found-in-marks/#comment-158453 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:50:19 +0000 http://www.retrowaste.com/?p=2672#comment-158453 The article is helpful to me as I am liquidating 2 households. My mother hired an “expert”, but she had no idea of the value of anything. She sold many fine antique items for Dollar Store prices. Either she was cheating us, or she was an idiot. I strongly suspect the former as many things I challenged her on just disappeared.
I managed to rescue a few things, among them an oval antique casserole dish with a rim. It is marked “Fire Proof”. It also bears a registration number, “Reg. No. 524038” & a “B”. It also has a crest that is not readable and pattern name I cannot make out properly. It is something like “Rustic Threadments” It has a Blue Floral pattern (not oriental) that is around the rim and in the base of the pan. I recognize the pattern as a very familiar old British one, but can not find anything resembling it on-line. I suspect it is from the turn of the century.
Any ideas? When was the term “Fireproof” used on dishes?

]]> https://www.retrowaste.com/dating-vintage-dinnerware-by-words-found-in-marks/#comment-156738 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:13:48 +0000 http://www.retrowaste.com/?p=2672#comment-156738 Lamp…
I am trying to find the value of a brass lamp (1930’s I presume) that was my grandmother’s. We were told it was a Stifel lamp but I do not find anything that confirms that. I did find Honi Hilo? on the top….Have you heard of this company…

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