WOW! The last post on my blog was at the end of March! The past several months have been super busy and interesting for me. Like I have mentioned before I started studying to become an antiques appraiser and I have opened a small Etsy shop, and am selling from home as well! I have become extremely passionate about this and my interest is focused mostly on antiques for dinning.

I have discovered so many beautiful objects that have stood the test of time. Dishes, glassware, and fine porcelain are among my favourite subjects, and of course anything silver! Sterling or silver plated, metal objects from the Victorian period are simply beautiful! 

But I have become a huge fan of German porcelain, especially, RS Prussia, items made in the late 1800’s. Prussia porcelain is so fine and delicate, that it is translucide when held to a light source. Their moulds are simply breathtaking.

Founded by Reinhold Schlegelmilch in the late 1800’s, the porcelain was produced in what is now Suhl Germany. RS Prussia produced ornate and floral porcelain objects for export. Unmarked pieces are largely available today, and can be easily identified. Unmarked pieces were not intended for export, but to be sold in Germany only. Some people are reluctant to buy unmarked pieces thinking that they might be fake, but fake RS Prussia uses fake marks to pass as the real thing, and the fake ones feel like heavy ceramics. I will probably write another post on the fake RS Prussia and how to identify them, but unmarked pieces are not fakes and are as valuable as the marked ones.

RS Prussia items included, plates, cups and saucers, coffee and tea pots, sugar and creamer bowls, vases, tankards, chocolate sets, cracker jars, dresser trays, shaving mugs etc…  Most were decorated with paintings of flowers or formal portraits, which were applied via lithographic transfers. 

I especially love their chocolate pots. Chocolate was a drink for the wealthy, due to high import duties on cocoa beans. Chocolate was exclusively for drinking until early Victorian times, when a technique was perfected for making solid “eating” chocolate.  It was a very popular drink for after dinner. You can shop on my Etsy shop by following this link. www.etsy.com/ca/shop/MarioTreasureChest