Royal Vale 'Cottage' Teaset - ? value

by Mary King
(UK)

Royal Vale 'Cottage' Teaset - ? value:- Hello, I have just been given a complete Royal Vale 'Cottage' teaset to put into a carboot sale for Cancer Charities. My question is: Is it too good for a carboot & if so, where would you suggest selling it to make a better price?

Many thanks,

Mary

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Royal Vale 'Cottage' Teaset - ? value

Dear Mary

Many thanks for submitting, and hope you are finding the site generally useful for research. You have a nice Royal Vale set c.1959. Although these bone china sets are considered Granny's old fashioned taste nowadays, there is a growing trend towards vintage, and I have seen these quality bone china tea sets described increasingly as 'shabby chic'.

To answer your question, if I had a nice set of Royal Vale tea cups & saucers like this, I would not take them to a car boot sale. Personally, I would sell them on ebay. If you go to my page on Royal Vale here:- Royal Vale prices on ebay, near the top of the page you will see a square graphic box showing the prices people are asking for their Royal Vale items on ebay.

Have a look through and click to any you feel might be comparable with your own Cottage Scene set. The advantage of clicking through to ebay from this page is the results on the graphic box have been specially coded to get rid of irrelevant results like Royal Worcester's Evesham Vale services which would otherwise clutter up the search results like crazy.


Then you can go through to the ebay site by clicking on any photo and look at completed listings to see the actual prices realised (just use the advanced search feature to do this).

From what I could see, within the UK market, Royal Vale tea sets like yours fetch around the £30 GBP prices.

I also run a service where collections and items can be sent for valuation analysis by professional appraisers, but in this case I don't think you don't need this service.

However, when you get items donated and want to research their value yourself, be sure to go to my self-research tips pages

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