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Kovels.com Top Twenty Antiques & Collectibles in February 2010

This 1927 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate cost $100 at Replacements Ltd. Other plates by the same maker sell for retail prices from $15 to $6,649.

The market for collector plates like Christmas and Mothers Day annual plates and sets of specially designed plates that sold for ever-rising prices in the 1970s and 1980s, has almost vanished. Common plates sell for a few dollars. Plates by well known makers like Royal Copenhagen sell for better prices. The plates made from 1895 to about 1920 sell well. So do some from the 1940s war years when fewer plates were made. Read more ...

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Politics of the Past

February is a time we remember past Presidents. This tin Vienna Art plate honors President William H. Taft and his Vice President. It sold for $230 at a fall sale.

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