Resale Value Tips for Flow Blue China

Video Transcript

"So when collecting the flow blue at some point or being lucky enough to have some one hand down pieces like this in your family you might not want to keep them. You just acquire them for some reason or another and you want to resale them your local antique dealers are a good source for selling and auction galleries are a good source for selling. Internet is a good source also so if your purchasing pieces like this and your think down the road and sell them if you sell them as collection, a collection in itself is worth more than one piece. So if your thinking about buying picking a pattern out like this oragon pattern that's right here you can buy pieces of dinnerware to go with this. You can actually come up with pretty good size sets if you look behind me these patterns in mulberry same time frame same type of thing you can actually collect like 18-20 to 25 pieces of just the dinnerware plates. So when you go to sell those plates and you have a collection of 8-12 pieces it's going to bring you a lot more money than just selling one or two individual pieces. So if you can keep that in mind when your making collection if you want to collect all of one thing and you have a huge collection and you go to sell it your return is going to be much higher. So one thing to consider another thing you want to do is collect all cups and saucers the more cups the cups and saucers that are good condition the more price your going to get. More price your going to get when you put the pieces together at a reputable sale so those are the things to consider when you want to retail your pieces."