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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fid, post: 612218, member: 7724&quot;]I buy stuff that is interesting to investigate, to feel, to look at in hand. then I resell them when they don&#039;t fit into my collections. but I&#039;d never risk a big sum on ceramics items simply because the mark is known when I don&#039;t see any artistic quality. example: I recently saw a small majolica bowl that reminded me of Thomas Sargent; so it was 8 € only including postage. nice little thing and I puzzled a bit around with the stamp it had on the bottom side and found out that it came from a village pottery that disappeared between the wars because they ran out of good clay - which was visible on mine already. so I listed it for one € and it went for 22 €. when I asked the winning bidder why he was so keen on it, he told me that he was brought up in that village and that the village disappeared nigh to extinction during the war; when I asked why there was a second one bidding he replied he most probably knows him because the maire of a nearby village opened a small museum for rememberance of that region. I had a good laugh about those two old pigheads, very typical on the countryside till today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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