Q&A: Selling Old Dinnerware
This might be a good time of year to sell off collectibles to make a bit of cash to pay off the expenses of the holidays. Besides, dinnerware, look around the house and see what you are not using anymore.
Q: My mother has vintage Royal Albert Country Rose dinnerware and alot of other pretty things. We’d like to sell it. Do I try Sothebys?
A: It is difficult to sell old china as it is getting less interesting to the younger generation. You would be lucky if Sothebys wants to take it. We also have other auction houses in Montreal like Empire Auctions Tel: 514-737-6586 and Ieogor Auctions Tel: 514 344-4081, which sell that too.
If not, you can take a photo and try to sell to one of the antique stores on rue Notre Dame from Atwater to Guy. There is a list of the stores in my Smart Shopping Montreal book on page 186..
There is a web site which buys and sells old china in the US called: www.replacements.com and there’s always ebay.