February 26, 2010
My Mother Left Me Some Dishes She Obtained By Saving Green Stamps About 35 Yrs Ago. Are They Worth Anything?
She saved her green stamps buying gasoline when I was a little kid. Everytime we went to a gas station, she got a couple of stamps and saved them until she finally turned them into a store and obtained place settings for a family of 12.
Mom died in 1993. I have the whole set in my closet. Should I hang on to them and are they ever going to be worth anything? They have a rose in the middle of the plate, dessert dish and saucer. They are old, so they dont say dishwasher safe.
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Comments on My Mother Left Me Some Dishes She Obtained By Saving Green Stamps About 35 Yrs Ago. Are They Worth Anything?
by all means save them, they are a thing from the past that will never return, and could be worth something now. go to antiques.com and see if they can help you.
Dishes that are 35 years old without chips or cracks are already worth a little money. I would take them to an antique appraiser and see what they had to say.
If you want to sell them, why don’t you search them out on Ebay to see if people are selling similar sets and what they are going for.
Personally, I would hang on to them and pass them onto my children, as a memento.
Good luck
They aren’t eating or drinking or costing you anything to keep them so I say hold on to them as long as possible. I am very sentimental so that is why I would keep them. I have a hard time getting rid of anything that belonged to my mom. But seriously, they can only go up in value. My husband’s theory is what people has isn’t worth anything unless you can find someone willing to buy it from you.
I think for something to be consider antique it has to be at least 50 years old and in a limited edition.
Thousands of these plates were made, They have little value.
You best bet is to sell them in a garage sale for what ever you can get..