Featured Tantalizing Taste of Terrible Trumpery – Porcelain

Unpacking MORE of Great Aunt Gert’s treasures, I have come across a pile of demi-tasse cups and saucers (and a few souvenir mini-cups, and 1 chocolate cup – so far). I am rather peeved because when we sold off Gert’s tableware most of the sets of cups and saucers had only 5, 7 or 11 cups and saucers………………now I know why……………….and I am steamed, but I have to rid myself of what she obviously considered a “collection” so I will be identifying these. There are a number of cups sans saucers, and saucers without cups as well, but later for that mess. And wait until I get to the spoons for these………………….



Disclaimer: This is not a request for identifications – more a request on how to proceed. Most of these pieces are marked, so I am sure I will be able to identify those. When I do ask for assistance, is it better to open a thread on each cup/saucer, or to start one long, convoluted thread? I may also ask to have marks “verified”, meaning confirmation on what I perceive to be the marks as to what they actually are!









As usual, Thanks for any assistance.....

 

Mansons, perhaps just a couple in each thread, to avoid both having to go back & forth among them AND causing confusion?

 

I agree with SBSVC. Maybe it's a function of my age but I just can't seem to move back and forth in a post like I used to. The exception is if there is a number or some other identifier in the picture that I can refer to or if all the items are very closely related.
Don

 

but, but, but - that is what I do BEST....................

I actually thought of that - I think I have done in the past - and I still got confused.................not a difficult thing to accomplish, apparently................

 

I consider cups without saucers (and vice versa) orphans and I usually donated those to the thrift. Nothing in the photos is jumping out at me, but I agree, 2 or 3 per post and maybe group them in similar styles.

 

lol all too small when shown like this and am not able to click on them to enlarge them

 

Oh! - I wasn't expecting IDs from these photos - This is not a request for identifications – more a request on how to proceed. Most of these pieces are marked, so I am sure I will be able to identify those. When I do ask for assistance, is it better to open a thread on each cup/saucer, or to start one long, convoluted thread?

Just showing the lot to give an estimation of the number of items involved.

 

If space is not an issue for you, perhaps you could start with open shallow boxes that you could stack like cups and saucers in. As you continue to unpack the treasures, you may find more of each pattern; for instance, the Dragonware c&s may have originally been a set of 6 in various colors and be more marketable that way. There are 2 duplicate c&s that I see that may have been part of a dinner service (front row with rosebuds and right side, cream and gold). It would be a shame if you encountered the rest of the set in one of the unopened boxes and were missing those because you had already sold them.

 

This is the end of the boxes (thank heavens). I know that there are a few duplicates here, some that do match a dinner service, but are not by the same manufacturer (Rosenthal). I have 2 sets of the dragonware myself..............and what may look like the same dragoneware in different colours here are not the same. The green one is from Japan, the black/gray one is Victoria China from Austria..............oh! and the cream and gold ones are fooling your eye! One set IS gold on cream - the other is green on cream.................

 

I don't know as you have much choice: either job lot to a dealer or sort through one at a time. You can always sort through, keep the cream, and job lot the rest.

If the maker is good, there can be a market for orphaned cups and saucers.

I once sold around 30 saucers and small plates in lots of 6 or 7. Just organized them into attractive groupings for photographic purposes (which, of course, I cannot now find).