How to Restore Majolica Pottery

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"Restoration on these pieces can be very expensive but there are a lot of pieces such as George Jones made one of the highest quality pieces of majolica that you can buy. Very expensive and if you find it in some kind of damage form it's well worth having it restored. But looking at some of the pieces that I have here a small corn pitcher like this is only worth about $48-$55 in very good shape. So if you buy it damaged and it needs repair I wouldn't say it would be worth the investment of doing restoration on it so a thing to consider is a common piece that are out there. And if they're very inexpensive if they're damaged it's not worth restoring as oppose to a piece like this which is a crushing pattern. If you buy a cake plate like this which is more expensive harder to find it would be worthy of getting restored. Because the value of it will exceed with the restoration that will cost you, something like this to this pitcher if you find something anything in the majolica patterns that have any relief that are 3 dimensional raise the value on a piece. The quality is much higher and it commands a lot more money for a piece as oppose to just a pitcher like this with no raise relief on it, so when you're looking at majolica and you see 3 dimensional pieces you know that's the highest price range you're going to find for that particular kind of a piece, as compared to just a pitcher with very plain not 3 dimensional. So that's something to look at when you're thinking about restoring these pieces you're going to pay for this pitcher it's about $275 for this pitcher in good shape. So if you're fortunate to buy at a reasonable price there's enough money in there to restore it and still not be paying more than it's worth. So that's something to consider when you want to restore majolica."