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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 761668, member: 136&quot;]Hi, Nicole, and welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what you consider &quot;very old&quot;, but your pretty dinner service is probably getting close to antique, although it isn&#039;t quite there yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sovereign state of CZECHOSLOVAKIA did not even exist until 1918.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, EPIAG was not a company, per se, but rather an <i>association</i> of potteries, called <b>Erste Böhemische Porzellan Industrie AG -</b> the First Bohemian Porcelain Industry. There&#039;s a bit of history about it here:</p><p><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/articles/blog-entry/its-all-in-marks-oepiag-epiag-mean" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/articles/blog-entry/its-all-in-marks-oepiag-epiag-mean" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/articles/blog-entry/its-all-in-marks-oepiag-epiag-mean</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, the <b>EPIAG</b> mark was not used until 1920, so this is the very <i>earliest</i> that your GGG-aunt might have purchased or received this set. Do you have any idea of when the <i>latest</i> she might have had it might be?</p><p><br /></p><p>It will take some research to find the exact pattern* and (hopefully!) discover exactly when it was introduced.</p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly is a very pretty pattern, but you should know that china sets don&#039;t demand anywhere near the prices they once did.</p><p><br /></p><p>* The REPLACEMENTS site has only a B&amp;W photocopy shown for this pattern, with no additional info about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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