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Summary: An antiques expert explains the various prices of copper luster in this free video clip about collecting antiques.
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About the Expert
Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
So one of the things we talked about in collecting there are a lot of common tableware pieces that you can collect in copper luster the most expensive sawed of pieces are the historical pieces. They talk about a period a time and a place or a political event or I don't have any good examples of that to show you but you can go to your reference books and look those up. You'll see that they come in your most prices you can pay for pitchers with a historical chip that picks the period at a time in the late 19th century or early 19th century could cost you anywhere. A small pitcher can cost you anywhere from a 100 to 6 7 $800 depending on who it is they're picking what time period what political event, usually this is English ware your going to see a lot of English events and American event also. Those are going to be things that are going to come in the most amount of money when your talking about relatively on common pieces like I'm showing you here today pitchers, cups and saucers, teapots any of these pieces here. These pitchers and size and color will range anywhere from $25 up to $300 these are pretty common these cups and saucers. This is a really nice condition for a little mug and the handle on it and I got this priced at the shop for $45 so that's a pretty common range. I can show you this pitcher right here in fairly good condition this is $55 there's no damaged to the spout it's very clean it has a little marking on the bottom, it's a little later but still a clean nice pitcher and it's about $55. I'll show you another example here this is copper luster a very clean no chips to the spout the handle is in very good condition a nice bottom ware that's appropriate for the age of this piece, and this piece will range around 65 to $75 range. So that gives you a little bit of a price range and if you go to your reference books they can show you the different examples of tableware and the different price range that you can expect to find in copper luster.