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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help needed with identifying heirloom pottery item
« on: September 02, 2011, 03:52:33 pm »
Thanks everyone for your help - researching this piece has been a fun exercise! I will keep working on it.
Our best guess is that my great-great aunt, who was childless and travelled a great deal with her husband during the latter part of the 19th century to very early 20th century, may have acquired this item as a souvenir piece and it may have been new at that time. is it possible that the caption on the item might have been an older phonetic spelling that is no longer in use now?
one other item of hers which was given to me I already had appraised once, almost 30 years ago when it came to me - it is a large blue/white ming jar which has always been missing the top since the time my grandmother had it. at that time it was estimated at a value of $1,000 and I was told it was at least 350 years old. I have been thinking it may be time to have it re-appraised.
Bev.
Our best guess is that my great-great aunt, who was childless and travelled a great deal with her husband during the latter part of the 19th century to very early 20th century, may have acquired this item as a souvenir piece and it may have been new at that time. is it possible that the caption on the item might have been an older phonetic spelling that is no longer in use now?
one other item of hers which was given to me I already had appraised once, almost 30 years ago when it came to me - it is a large blue/white ming jar which has always been missing the top since the time my grandmother had it. at that time it was estimated at a value of $1,000 and I was told it was at least 350 years old. I have been thinking it may be time to have it re-appraised.
Bev.