I really need help with this flatware set

This was one of my mom's prized possessions. It's been sitting in the hutch for decades and I haven't used one piece. I am sad having to part with it, but I can't see any sense in keeping it. It's marked Community Stainless and in the original wooden box. I inventoried the pieces and included that info in the photo. It isn't silver or even plated - it's stainless steel and probably dates to the late 1950s or early 1960s. I believe it's called the "Paul Revere" pattern, but I'm not positive on that. It still has the certificate that came with it.

I am going to put it out at my next garage sale want wanted to know what would be a reasonable price to ask.

 

Those are the ones I'm still using. That very pattern. It's good stuff. I have no idea what it sells for; I'm busy using it!

 

Pattern introduced in 1959. Still being manufactured by Oneida.

https://www.replacements.com/silver-oneida-silver-paul-revere-stainless/c/73168

Debora

 

The "vintage" Oneida Community Stainless flatware is very nice everyday stuff. My own set, circa 1995, feels perfectly weighted in hand. Unfortunately, my pattern was discontinued long ago and therefore when some comes up on ebay, it's not cheap... often $10-$15 per piece! (I've given it all to my son, so it's his problem now.)
Yours is a classic pattern and, as already stated, is still being made. Community Stainless was (is?) made of 18/10 stainless steel, excellent quality. Someone's going to want that!

 

It does well on eBay and there are lots of completed listings to check. An eBay dealer might be able to get about $150 for the set, maybe more if pieces sold separately. Selling at a garage sale usually doesn't yield a great price since those folks would want to sell it to someone else. Garage sales these days are for items you just want Gone and are willing to take the lowball offers you get.

 

Seconded. Yard sales are where small resellers go to buy stuff, voice of someone who's done it, at 10% to a max of 25% of their expected selling price. The other buyers want it for their own use, and if they were willing to pay eBay prices theyh'd be shopping on eBay. They might go higher than 25%, but don't count on it.

I ran into this at a "curated" thrift store opening this week. They had a signed Lalique fish, with its box, marked $65. They routinely sell on line for $130. I got there about an hour into the opening, and if it was resellable at that price it would have been gone. They got greedy.

 

someone is going to tell you it's missing pieces.....and want it for 10 bucks !!!!

 

The response is "nice try, but I already checked when I put it out. My bottom is $X."

 

If you would have any opportunity to sell these on Ebay, that would be the way to get top dollar because people might want to add them to an existing set.

I routinely see random vintage stainless sets like this at estate sales for $20-25, they usually sell by the end of the first day if near complete.

It's nice you have all those teaspoons. Those are usually the first to go missing.

 

I bought a service for eight, or part of one, in the local ReStore for under $3. One of my forks is bent, but we have the spoons.

 

Dinner forks are always the hardest for me to find.

 

Everyone with any sense buys extra spoons. Meanwhile, the forks get mangled or go missing.