Tips on Displaying Blue & White China

Video Transcript

"So when collecting your historical blue and deciding what you want to collect whether it's going to be on teapots whether it's going to be teapots and sugar bowls and creamers or if your going to have a wide range of tableware. Where you have plates, platters, tirings or a number of different other pieces that you can collect will dictate whether your going to display it. You can display a number of ways I have right here some of these plate racks which are really easy and very inexpensive to buy. I like this particular plate rack because it has an adjustable back and it's very inexpensive this folds forward and backwards so that you can put a large platter or a small plate. It gives you a good range of showing your plate because some of the plate racks you don't have enough room so your plates will lean forward, with this you can adjust it to make your plate rack lean as far back as you wanted to display your piece. You may want to display it back more than you wanted with this, this gives you a good showing of what is actually is inside of these plates because there so much detailed you want to see it when you display it. The racks are really great to display another way to display is on the wall using 3 prong wires that come across the back of your plate to hang these on the wall. That's one way to display your plates, some people like to do a whole wall that displays just plates they might want to mix it in with paintings or pictures and plates. Sometimes you want to display them in your kitchen sometimes you want to display them in your dining room or you might want to move them all throughout your house. So hanging on the walls are a great way to do it but you have to be really careful because you can cause a lot of damage to these plates to. They have wire coated ones now that aren't so damaging as to just the plain wires so when your picking out wall hangers be careful how you pick them up cause you don't want to damage your plates. So you can display them that way, you can display on shelves, wooden shelves, on your walls, you can just display on step back cupboards, open cupboards, close cupboards just a number different ways you can display your wares. So depending on the size of your collection and the way you want to display it those are some different ways that you can display your historical blue."