Cool KC, This is good to know, I've never seen these marks before and was being a bit liberal on estimate. The thing that kinda through me for a loop on the markings is the Word Royal and the Crown, which is found on lots of cup, seems these are the two most common words, however that is usually English made, these has Japan. Smelled a bit like the lets make a fancy tea cup and sell it to overseas, make big money
. I will go look around abit on those hallmarks, kinda curious now. Yes Tea cup do sell much higher seperate, the only thing I was trying to get accross, these are the same, but different. So this may yield a bit more. It does surprise me a bit on the age too, but still it would seem in the tea cup world Looks is what it is about, and yes some like me look at the marks, but most will pay for the looks. Whynette I would for sure go with KC's Estimate, he has the experience and I just didn't feel much like eating crow
. Looks like I have boiled crow on my plate again tonight anyway.
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