Using Mixed Tops in Blue & White China

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So when collecting historical blue what I'm going to show you is a few examples of things to look out for when you're collecting one of the things is a lot of times you'll find these wonderful sugar bowls and they'll be missing their tops. Which this one is it's a great sugar bowl and displays really well but you won't pay the price, you will pay when you find a sugar bowl with a cover. Here's another example of a great sugar bowl in wonderful condition made by Clue's it's a flower basket on the side, it has its handles, it's a really nice piece but missing it's cover. So big difference in price when collecting you may be okay with just collecting this it's a very subjective thing but you have to keep in mind that the price range is going to vary tremendously. Another example I wanted to show you today too is these 2 teapots. This teapot has the original cover but its been restored different being the tops been restored. This teapot has the wrong cover and the way one particular way that's very easy to tell in a teapot is there's a hole a steam hole in every teapot. So when you find a lid on top of a teapot without the steam hole you've got the wrong lid okay so when you look at this one here it looks very similar and this pattern is exactly the same pattern as the pattern below it. So it's very easy to get confused but when you look closer at this cover. This cover probably went to the sugar bowl because it has no steam hole in it. So we know that this is not the right cover for this it was probably the right cover with, on the sugar bowl that went in the series of these that matched. But for some reason this something could of happened to the teapot cover got thrown away or broken so they put the sugar bowl cover on top of it. It has the same pattern but it's not the right tops, so those are things to look for when looking to buy a tea set, with a cream and sugar, and your teapots. So those are things that could be very difficult to detect when you first start to collect in this area so it makes a huge difference as far as what you pay how much your pieces are going to be worth. So those are some things to look for when you're collecting historical blue.

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