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Title: Need help with a cup.
Post by: Peaceman on April 01, 2013, 11:51:34 AM: Newbee here...

I've been a coin collector for over 10 years now and I'm just starting to get into antiques. I've bought several antique books in order to educate myself. I've limited my purchases to $50 or less until I feel comfortable knowing what I am buying.
I ran into this cup at a flea market and talked the owner down to $10. I liked it due to the maker's mark and the look of it being a handmade piece possibly (It's not perfectly round, etc.) When I got it home I looked through my Kovels' book and found a "similar" MM but not exactly as my figure is smaller. I tried on-line and am stumped as well. The Maker's mark reads:

MERIDEN SILVER PLATE COMPANY QUADRUPLE PLATE.

The pictures are very large so you can blow them up pretty good.

Thanks for any help, it's very appreciated.
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: bigwull on April 01, 2013, 04:49:00 PM: Tons of Meriden quadruple about...ebay,s full of it,..some pieces more ornate than this cup, ..but low asking prices, little or no bids....
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: mart on April 01, 2013, 07:11:17 PM: http://en.wikicollecting.org/meriden-silver-plate-company

Said the numbered pieces are limited editions but not sure how it was numbered !! i think this number is the style number !! Some of their stuff sells pretty high !!
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: sapphire on April 02, 2013, 01:40:06 PM: If you have the patience you might want to scan through these 7 pages to see if you can find similar to yours with selling price.

http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/index.php?main_page=documents&content=search&c=Silver+Plate&s=meriden&sumbit=Submit
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: bigwull on April 02, 2013, 02:00:54 PM: Don,t bother yourself...your cups not there...and what cups are there....the prices will just depress you....as i said don,t plan on giving up your day job....not unless you get 6 numbers ;D
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: Peaceman on April 02, 2013, 05:11:29 PM: Thanks for the links.

I assume with butterflies and birds on it and it standing 3 5/8 In. tall that it is a "Child's cup?"
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: bigwull on April 02, 2013, 05:18:21 PM: yes i would say so
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: Peaceman on April 02, 2013, 05:26:37 PM: It's the bottom right one... I believe it to be the gold lined one.
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: sapphire on April 02, 2013, 05:31:48 PM: Wow! We were both looking at the same thing at the same time ;)

Meriden's 1883 catalogue
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: Peaceman on April 02, 2013, 06:05:51 PM: TY for your time searching for me. :D
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: bigwull on April 02, 2013, 06:14:13 PM: Quote from: Peaceman on April 02, 2013, 06:05:51 PM
TY for your time searching for me. :D
Quote from: Peaceman on April 02, 2013, 05:26:37 PM
It's the bottom right one... I believe it to be the gold lined one.
well,thats another one nailed...unless a tuppence worth from...you know who says differently....and a box of these to you both...which will probably be lost on you...but not on the other....well done.to both of you...
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: mart on April 03, 2013, 10:23:21 AM: A childs cup would likely be more popular with collectors than a similar adult size !!
Title: Re: Need help with a cup.
Post by: KC on April 03, 2013, 02:39:08 PM: Yepper a child's cup. The less ornate sell pretty cheaply. But yours is the more ornate one - in etched detail and in handle detail. $75 easy in my neck of the woods!!! These nicer ones can sell up to $100 - even tho silverplate and Meridien!!!