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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 1371519, member: 6444"]Well, I do not have as much experience with pottery as many on this site, but I do buy and sell some italian and other pottery when I find it at a good price, so it is not completely unfamiliar to me. I would see this as being more mid-20th century. And frankly, I think the value of this where I am (northeast, boston area) given decoration and condition is more like $20. If it was in excellent condition and/or had excellent skillful decoration and/or was by a well known italian maker and/or in midcentury design, I could maybe see a few hundred. As it is, with none of those things, I can't see it reaching your valuation (though it doesn't hurt to try <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it may just be me, but personally I would prefer if you would NOT go back and edit all of your threads. Part of the fun of reading this site is that we can see initial lack of information followed by the back and forth from knowledgeable contributors and thereby end up with a good sense of what something is. If you edit out your question, and replace it with a summary of what some of the contributors have said, then it makes reading the thread kind of like seeing the movie The Sixth Sense after <SPOILER ALERT> someone has told you that Bruce Willis is dead (wait - everyone has seen it by now, haven't they?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 1371519, member: 6444"]Well, I do not have as much experience with pottery as many on this site, but I do buy and sell some italian and other pottery when I find it at a good price, so it is not completely unfamiliar to me. I would see this as being more mid-20th century. And frankly, I think the value of this where I am (northeast, boston area) given decoration and condition is more like $20. If it was in excellent condition and/or had excellent skillful decoration and/or was by a well known italian maker and/or in midcentury design, I could maybe see a few hundred. As it is, with none of those things, I can't see it reaching your valuation (though it doesn't hurt to try :) Also, it may just be me, but personally I would prefer if you would NOT go back and edit all of your threads. Part of the fun of reading this site is that we can see initial lack of information followed by the back and forth from knowledgeable contributors and thereby end up with a good sense of what something is. If you edit out your question, and replace it with a summary of what some of the contributors have said, then it makes reading the thread kind of like seeing the movie The Sixth Sense after <SPOILER ALERT> someone has told you that Bruce Willis is dead (wait - everyone has seen it by now, haven't they?)[/QUOTE]
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