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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 10276497, member: 10944&quot;]Barker Ellis/Ellis Barker is worth picking up usually. As long as it’s cheap. It has a pretty good base of people that look for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>WMF of Germany will often sell better than most.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew Boulton stuff has a good market. Then again once you’re into real Sheffield plate most of it will sell well. His name in particular is good though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ornate offerings from Reed &amp; Barton, Meriden, Wilcox, and other American firms from civil war era to aesthetic movement era I always do well with. They can often be bought cheap.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the smaller American firms from the same era will sell even if the pieces aren’t that special. Regional collectors I assume.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After that anything that’s of exceptional quality or of a rare form is still worth getting. Even the average stuff can sell in small lots on local market places. Noobs to the world of old things don’t always realize that average silver plate isn’t “desirable”. Average old silverplate is still pretty cool looking when you’ve never had anything old or shiny.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love plate. Mostly because there is so much value to be had in a space most look down their noses at.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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