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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe2007, post: 10339564, member: 1262&quot;]Recently a local auctioneer has been liquidating a large collection of Ohio Art Pottery, breaking it up in about 50 pieces each sale in multiple sales with other antiques. He has had 4-5 of these sales, of which I have been to two of them. There is some Roseville, Rookwood, Hull, and McCoy but over 50% is damaged with a lot of noticeable hairlines. No really rare or large pieces, just run of the mill stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prices are no longer dead; just soft to doing moderately well. The Roseville, lesser in quantity has sold really well for common pieces ($50-100 range undamaged/$20-30 damaged), I haven&#039;t bought any since I am looking for rock bottom prices and better lines in good condition. All the pieces I would have wanted are damaged. Today there were 4 pieces of Roseville with only one undamaged. Someone bought the lot for $85, not sure what they were doing - There was a nice small Thornapple piece in there that had two hairlines - but the condition was a dealbreaker in my mind. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Rookwood was common production pieces and sold for middle of the road prices. McCoy always has done well and has never seen the large dip in prices that other pottery has.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hull was a mixed bag with most doing well with smaller pieces in the $15-30 range but others at the end of the sale in the $5-15 range. There were a lot more bidders than I expected, several new faces buying 10-20 pieces, obviously amateurs because they were picking some of the damaged pieces. I picked up a half dozen undamaged pieces of Hull at the end of the sale. I can&#039;t yet pass up $5-7 vases.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago, I would have had choice of the lot with a lot less competition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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