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<p>[QUOTE="CheersDears, post: 4279210, member: 2131"]Hello. I hope everyone is good and chipper. Here in lockdown Sydney I have just acquired this lot -- 12 cups and saucers, lidded pot, lidless sugar and milk jug -- for a whole $A10. The camera battery died before I could get any decent pics, but it is a slightly perplexing business. It was bought from a deceased estate in the 80s and the seller's mother had died, so deceased estate No. 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pot, jug and sugar bowl are numbered 999 and 35. It is hand-coloured and gilded transferware (?), but the transfer doesn't correlate with the design on the china. There is no decoration on the back of the cups. It's that opaque, hard, glossy, almost glassy china that I reckon is Austria or thereabouts. The pot with lid is 11 inches tall.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's in excellent condition and, though over the top, is rather lovely and has cleaned up white and brill.[ATTACH=full]342632[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342633[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342634[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342635[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any idea as to age and origin? Thanks in advance, and stay safe everyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CheersDears, post: 4279210, member: 2131"]Hello. I hope everyone is good and chipper. Here in lockdown Sydney I have just acquired this lot -- 12 cups and saucers, lidded pot, lidless sugar and milk jug -- for a whole $A10. The camera battery died before I could get any decent pics, but it is a slightly perplexing business. It was bought from a deceased estate in the 80s and the seller's mother had died, so deceased estate No. 2. The pot, jug and sugar bowl are numbered 999 and 35. It is hand-coloured and gilded transferware (?), but the transfer doesn't correlate with the design on the china. There is no decoration on the back of the cups. It's that opaque, hard, glossy, almost glassy china that I reckon is Austria or thereabouts. The pot with lid is 11 inches tall. It's in excellent condition and, though over the top, is rather lovely and has cleaned up white and brill.[ATTACH=full]342632[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342633[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342634[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342635[/ATTACH] Any idea as to age and origin? Thanks in advance, and stay safe everyone.[/QUOTE]
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