Re: Briglin Pottery

by **NaomiM** November 6th 2021, 12:36 am

Briglin robin moneybox

by **philpot** November 25th 2021, 5:34 pm

Images from an old Antiques Road Show. The fabled Richard Parkinson designed showbiz figures.The five illustrated here were valued at £8000-£10,000. Two missing apparently, one being Maria Callas.

by **22 Crawford St.** November 25th 2021, 6:52 pm

I've spoken to her. That valuation is not correct. I shared with her all the records of sales I have. Info they gave out was not 100%

by **NaomiM** November 25th 2021, 7:35 pm

There's auction valuation, retail valuation, and insurance valuation. I'm guessing they gave a retail or insurance valuation

by **22 Crawford St.** November 25th 2021, 8:12 pm

Well AR gives auction values but they looked like posh Piccadilly art gallery prices when you compare them to auction prices going back quite a few years. One sold recently with a low number but went for something like £500 all in but had a hairline that put me off. That does not make x5 go for 8-10k and I've seen higher numbers for the PR one than they say were made. I sold one by advertising it on my website for a very nice woman who got a good value for it in a cash deal - must be five or six years ago now.

by **NaomiM** November 25th 2021, 8:42 pm

They tend to double or triple the figure if it's a pair or a set. There was a Crowan teaset that sold for a ridiculous amount recently at Partridges, presumably because of the time and effort it would take to get the items individually

by **22 Crawford St.** November 25th 2021, 9:18 pm

I think that a lot of markets for pottery have shifted recently. Some up some down. Like an earthquake the land we were used to moved overnight. All the Hornsea Aphrodite vases have just gone *poof* where there used to be a few on ebay. Just watched a little GS miniature sell for nearly £50 on EB. All a bit odd. I doubt prices will go higher but they might fall back. Dunno perhaps there is a new paradigm Shrugs

by **NaomiM** November 25th 2021, 9:27 pm

I’ve started spending £20-30 on items off eBay when previously I’d have stuck to £10-15. Not sure if it’s simply because the items are nice or it’s post-Lockdown madness Big Laughter

by **philpot** November 25th 2021, 10:24 pm

There were three of these figures sold at Wooley and Wallis in March 2018.
The Gielgud was £4,800, the Robeson £1800, and the Olivier £1300. So given there were 5 of them, perhaps the valuation was not too off.

by **22 Crawford St.** November 25th 2021, 10:38 pm

Complete outliers. The others went for 500, 450, 350 and 600 you failed to mention them - do you have other prices?

by **philpot** November 26th 2021, 9:29 am

Checking on it, the date of the Antiques Roadshow episode was 2015. So you are right, no evidence before then to base their valuation on anything like that. Curious, hpw they made that decision. The valuations on the the programme itself have obviously had a lot of research behind them before they appear on screen.
Equally Naomi is right. They have a whole multitude of 'valuations'. The mythical one based on the high end Bond St shop - which probably no longer exists on a site like that- is virtually anything they like to say!

by **NaomiM** February 5th 2022, 6:08 pm

Briglin puffer fish money box

by **22 Crawford St.** February 6th 2022, 11:39 am

Yes they made some outliers like that. Not many about, must not have sold well.

by **NaomiM** February 6th 2022, 12:02 pm

Maybe because the fins are easily chipped.
I thought it was a Clive Brooker piece when I first spotted it.

by **22 Crawford St.** February 6th 2022, 2:11 pm

I have one somewhere but it's white/grey not that greeny colour

by **Potteryman** February 6th 2022, 8:44 pm

That’s nice piece of briglin…..

by **NaomiM** February 6th 2022, 10:56 pm

Similar shape to the Briglin robin money box I got back in November

by **22 Crawford St.** April 27th 2022, 5:37 pm

Two charming cats from bang on 1975 and so nice to know they came together. I have other big ones but the little one is unusual, not terribly valuable but unusual. So happy to have them.

Once I have the house done I will turn my time over to sorting the website and my collection