Guessing from 1931, set includes 5 cups and saucers, 1 additional saucer, 6 doulbe handle soup bowls and saucers, 2 platters, 2 serving bowl, 1 creamer, 1 gravy boat with saucer attached, 7 dinner plates, 11 dessert plates, 8 salad plates, 5 smaller plates and10 small bowls. Never used, all kept as display. Like new.
Private owner, from grandmother
Hi Dianne,
Thank you for contacting Mearto with your appraisal inquiry.
There is a tremendous quantity of antique and vintage Noritake on the auction market at the moment. Despite the high retail prices you have to pay for it in a store, at auction, even like-new sets of this size typically bring between $3.50 and $4.50 a piece.
Based on the photos and information provided, and subject to examination, this is:
A Vintage 70-piece Noritake parcel gilt part dinner service
In the "Chineblue" pattern, bearing mark in use from 1928-1931, comprising:
7 dinner plates
8 salad plates
11 dessert plates
5 bread and butter plates
6 double-handled soup bowls with 6 underplates
10 small bowls
5 cups with 5 saucers
1 additional saucer,
2 platters,
2 serving bowls,
1 gravy boat with attached underplate
1 cream pitcher
CONDITION: client represents this to be in a like-new unused condition
PROVENANCE: inherited
$250-350 for the set*
*represents a fair-market value for auction purposes; retail or asking price may vary.
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