Royal Doulton Dinner Set

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

I have one of these and I want to sell it.

Ebay.fr is not going to be a good place to get rid, so can any of you lovely peoples suggest a better place to sell and even get a decent price for it?

Many thanks.

[Alex H]

I've had success on http://www.leboncoin.fr/ and its free :-)

[Gardian]

CdL ..............

Before moving out here, we tried to sell our dinner set, which had cost a fortune to acquire originally.

I can't recall the two places that we tried, but if you google 'selling china plates' or something similar, you get loads of entries.

The problem that we had and that you may well encounter too, is that there's only any value in them if they have a rarity to them: otherwise, nobody is really interested in buying. Additionally, you'd have the problem of getting it back to the UK in one piece (so to speak!)  I doubt if the situation is any different over here.

[water rat]

I inherited a v kitsch Royal Albert "country roses" service which wasn't worth selling as nobody wants it anymore. I decided to use it for our B&B. It is absolutely adored by the french who think of English china as a cut above anything else, even though we live near Limoges,so it may be worth a punt on French EBay, with a high reserve you won't lose!

[Russethouse]

 Google China Matching services, that might be worth while.....depends on the pattern

As for Country Roses from my experience its always a good seller, probably all the more so since we are emerging from the Ikea era. !

[woolybanana]

Be nice to IKEA, they have done a great job!

[Chancer]

I had to just go and check on a china set that I recently bought at a boot sale in the UK, it was the comments about pre Ikea that got me thinking, I bought it because it reminded me of the past and was tellement anglais.

I then looked at some google images, whilst not Royal Doulton it is definitely the county rose design [:)]

[woolybanana]

Ah, Countly Lose flom Flabbabaland, then?

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Thanks for the suggestions, will ponder some thoughts.

[Will]

These people have been good in the past, but you would have to get the stuff to England: http://chinasearch.co.uk/sell-to-us/

We got a good price for some rare pattern discontinued Denby before we went to France, I can't recall who bought it though. I think it might have been a lady dealer who turned up at our garage sale on spec and asked if we had any decent china.

[woolybanana]

I thought 'pondering' was what hens do?

Great Bobo Mr Lionheart, you are being a busy boy, all for a  bit of nookey, even selling the family china.

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

lol

[tj]

When you say a service, maybe you could be more specific, how old, how many pieces, pattern number etc ,possibly someone here may be interested, I might be for one!

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

[img]http://stock.tablewhere.co.uk/PatternImages/DOU1077.jpg[/img]

That's the pattern, it's called Westwood.

Tomorrow, I'll count up the pieces, but there's a heap of plates, cups, saucers etc in it.

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

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[woolybanana]

Blimey and Bobo in a bucket, what d'ya want that lot for unless you run a resto?

[Iceni]

C de L, I'm probably just being picky but I would not call these a "set". I guess that the rest went with Mrs C de L.

John

[woolybanana]

Could have been dropped or thrown? I reckon the latter.

What is wrong with plastic plates, a carton for the milk and a bag for the sugar? If you have the table well covered, the sugar lumps can go on the cloth. Soup can stay in the saucepans as can the stew. Ooops, just been round to my old neighbours.

[Clair]

[quote user="tj"]When you say a service, maybe you could be more specific, how old, how many pieces, pattern number etc ,possibly someone here may be interested, I might be for one![/quote]

Off forum please...

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[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Oops, sorry admin.

It was my mum's set, and who knows how many pieces there were with it originally.

Apart from some slight sentimental value, I think it's one of the worst patterns ever, but then it came from the 70's.

I contacted a place in the UK and filled their form in and France was highlighted as one of their countries they deal with, so will see what happens. I costed it out based on their prices to over 600 quid, so would expect to sell it to them for half that price. If they want it of course.