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Message:: [QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 11387436, member: 5833"]After my mother died, I needed to get her condo cleared out for the buyer, so hired a firm that would do the removal, try to sell the stuff, then donate it if unsold after a fairly short time.  The only thing they reported to me as sold was a pair of Hummel bookends.  Might have done better if she had had a collection.  Not much market for tea carts in 1996. My father's second wife was a sucker for these, & they adorned quite a bit of wall space.  Others were still in their boxes.  (And the empty boxes for the ones that had been mounted were piled in the basement.)  There were 2 different sets of Gone With The Wind plates, neither of them complete, and an assortment of others. She died about 10 years before he did.  When I looked into the market for them, had to advise him that the work to sell them would be more than their worth, so all stayed as it was, & eventually they all came to me. When settling his affairs, was rather relieved when a rapacious daughter of hers turned up in the area for another reason & took them all away.[/QUOTE]