I hardly
ever buy to resell but here’s one exception.
I actually
went to look for a teapot to design a cozy around, but all they had was an ugly
thing priced 11 euro’s. Then to my surprise I saw the Villeroy & Boch coffeepot
for only 2,50! Remembering we had the same shape pots when I was a little girl
in the Sixties for tea and coffee in pale yellow and blue I couldn’t leave it.
I’m not sure if mom had the filter top but possibly it remained in a
cupboard - it was clumsy because you had to use a round piece of cotton cloth
in it - after the handy paper filter bags with the plastic holders appeared.
Out of
nostalgia I kept the set as a piece of décor for a long time. But in the end it
got in my way so I listed it. To my disappointment the same brown Seventies pot was all
over the place with the one exception that nobody else had the filter part.
If only mine would have been one in those Sixties colours it would have been
worth a lot more.
Still I
managed to make a profit of nearly 10 euro’s. An elderly lady had broken her
pot that she had used all her life and sent out her daughter to find the same
model to replace it. For a not so collectible item I think it was the best I
could do.
I did
better on a pair of Laurel Burch earrings that my friend bought at 1 euro. After finding out the designer is not among
us anymore and her work is very sought after she gave them to me to list on
Etsy. I did some research of my own first and found the cat earrings were doing
around $35 on Ebay, but the exact same pair called ‘Siamese Cats’ was listed
$50 on Etsy. So I put them up for $45.
Well, can
you guess? Sold within eight hours! After taking off costs there was a bit over
30 euro’s left which my friend kindly split with me.
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