It's a 46 piece set of Cunningham & Pickett 22kt gold. It says hand decorated Calirose Alliance Ohio. They are white with gold trim and painted pink roses on all of the pieces. It is a beautiful set.
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It is not an expensive set. eBay has many pieces for sale here: www.ebay.com/
Vintage 1950s Cunningham & Pickett / Homer Laughlin - pattern: Calirose
Individual pieces of china are not fast sellers (very slow in fact) and sets are usually even slower. That is usually the reason sellers will list by pieces instead of by a set.
Stating 46 pieces does not give a good description of your set unless you have 4 - 6 - 8 pieces for each individual serving (number of each - dinner plates/ cups/saucers/ salad plates/ soup bowls and then each accessory piece).
You can check out Replacements for current prices:
You can also contact Replacements to see if they are interested in purchasing your set. If so, they will make you an offer but that means you must pack up the set (very carefully!) and ship (insured). It would be less money (maybe) but a sale for sure.
Packing and shipping a set is a very real nightmare as china is very easily broken and claiming insurance is always a hassle.
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You can check out some of the asking prices on other sites but bear in mind these are companies with warehouses and no real urgency to sell.
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There are pieces listed on eBay but no individual pieces or a set in this pattern has been sold over the past several months ( a set - maybe even years?).
You cannot go by asking prices as these are just what sellers would like to get for their items but only sold items has any relation to current value.
You can place a watch on an item to see if it sells.
Current listings:
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I would suggest listing your set on Craigslist, Nextdoor, Facebook Marketplace or any site that has local pick up so there would be no shipping involved.
Using one of these services you can start at any price you wish and just lower it if no one shows an interest. Look at some of the prices shown, count your pieces, and list your set.
Okay so i counted them and labeled them to the best of my ability since i am not familiar with china haha. Looks like im missing a few. If you see some words i need to replace FEEL free to correct me.
If you are going the Replacements.com route, which is the best place to start, they will send you a list of what they name the items and you will have to match your pieces to theirs--so it is a good start that you have all of the measurements. They make me crazy because they are exact in their measurements and I tended to round up--like I would say 6.5 and they would say 6.45.
I am struggling to find the official name in my brain of those two covered pieces--covered vegetable tureens? Steamer Bowls--it is some wonky name that I never remember. If I get a break from my job today, I will figure it out and post back.
When you send them your info--I suggest sending them a photo of the plates without the fancy decoration and then the items that have that more lacy pattern. Ask them to ID them and tell them you want to sell them.
I missed that when I first looked at your set and I am not positive, but your set may be a mix of two very similar sets. Mine was the exact same way. My grandmother had replaced some broken soup bowls with a pattern from the same brand but a different pattern name--to a lay person they looked the same, but to Replacements they were two different things--meaning my plates were pattern A and the bowl were pattern B, both by the same brand.
I guess what I am trying to say is tell them you want them to identify both the plain gold rims and the fancy pattern rims and if they are two different patterns in the brand, quote you on BOTH sets to buy.
Then you will get their long list of pieces they buy (if they are buying) and you will have to check off what pieces you are sending them (putting the correct pattern with the correct list).
It will be much easier to understand if they send you bidding sheets than me explaining it here. Read their instructions carefully. They are long and in small print, but if you follow their rules, and they buy, they pay quickly.
If Replacements is not interested in your pieces--I would start the entire lot at 50 and take best offer which could be as low as 10.
This would be through Facebook or some other local app or swap site. I wouldn't bother with eBay for many reasons.
Post back how your sale goes!
Wow thank you! Yes i have no idea about the names of them ahah, on the bottom of them it all says the same thing i believe. Ill do what i can, ill let you know thank you very much!
Replacements wanted to offer 80 for the set. That doesnt include shipping which is 35. Thats also for mint condition. They may take it from me then tell me its only worth 35 and i practically gave it to them. They offer 2 dollars for a plate and turn around and sell it for 20. Ill have to pass on that one.
Replacements gives you one month to hold the values so you could always try to sell them on your own, then a week before their offer ends, if they don't sell, you can do Replacements.
Having been in your shoes many times with family inherited sets and helping friends with their parents' estates, I have become a bird in the hand gal--meaning I would be done with it and sell them to the first person who offers (which in this case is Replacements) and walk away. I have become like this because of my experience. I have been selling stuff since I was a kid which was a long time ago. I have seen the market for things come and go.
$2 a plate is generous in today's market. We sold similar sets for 25 cents to 50 cents a piece at estate sales when all was said and done. We knew how much the parents paid for these (or the wedding guests since most were wedding gifts) and it was stomach turning...but that is the reality of the resale market. Unless you have something that is an insanely hot collectible, you fetch 1/8 to 1/16 of original retail value--and it is hard to compare a 1950s or 1940s retail value to today's and that devalues many pieces even more when you try to do that math.
Dishes are a hard sell item. Kids don't want them, oldsters like me are downsizing and don't want them. The people who want them are the people in the middle who already have a full set and want to replace a broken piece or two to make their set whole because they use them. That is usually all they want is a piece or two, not a whole set.
That is why I am a fan of Replacements. That is who they cater the pieces parts people.
When I have sold to them, I get cash in hand, my space back, and I am not wasting my time with no shows and people traipsing in my house to look a them. I just had a bad experience with a Facebook Marketplace sale just last week and I have have sworn that venue off for a while while I simmer down.
I hear your concern about Replacements not valuing them the way you do. I had that happen as I missed a chip--but overall (and I have been doing this for years) I was pretty accurate on my conditions so I have to assume you are good with figuring condition also and if you say they are pristine, they are pristine.
I have found Replacements to be honest. They have a reputation and with public shaming from Yelp and such on the internet, I think they go to all ends to protect their reputation. Last I checked that had a 4 star rating. Very few places have a perfect 5. Please know I have no stock or interest in replacements. I actually wish I did. This is just me sharing my experience and trying to give you all sides of the current market.
Truly it is your comfort level!! Post back how it goes!!! My hope is you find an older local person who always wanted a set and loves it and gives you the value you want!!
This is a nice set and you have several additional pieces that may sell for more money as individual items - even if you decide to go with a site like Craigslist.
Since Replacements has offered such a low price I would not consider selling at that price either.
I still believe you would receive more money by selling in your area and no shipping. I try to never ship anything that is breakable and a set of china is a disaster waiting to happen.
List your china at a higher price and lower it if necessary but do not be in a big hurry as you need to have it listed for several weeks or even months.
The problem with china is that it is out of fashion and the younger crowd are just not interested. Seniors and younger adults are trying to get rid of all the paraphernalia they have accumulated and no one wants it. The market is flooded and that makes it sad for a seller.
The Calirose pattern is sweet.
You could see if Replacements.com is buying any and they would probably give you the most per piece, if they are stocking it.
Unfortunately this was such a popular set, there are a lot out there for sale and they are not selling on eBay at all.
We had an estate sale for a friend's dad a few years ago and he had a pattern in the same boat. We offered everything for what amounted to 1.00 a piece and ended up selling the entire set for what amounted to .50 cents a piece for the number of pieces he had. It was sad, but the buyer loved it and they didn't have to donate or worse, put into the landfill.
I hope you can find a good solution for selling your set.
OR--if you are artistic, we have a friend who breaks (or takes broken already) dishes and uses the shards (mostly the flowers, but sometimes the gold and white trims)--and makes them into necklaces. I think she sells them for $10 a piece on Etsy...or she did. I have one of her pieces. They are stunning!! It was a gift that I cherish as she actually used our family's broken plates to make mine.
Blessings!
They have many sets on Etsy. There worth are from 20.00 to 40.00.
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