I inherited Antique Bavaria China and no one has been able to identify it. I’ve learned that it is from the 30s to early 40 pre German war era but with this heavy gold overstamp on every piece it is making it extremely difficult to view the original stamp. I would like to sell the set but don’t know how to even price it. It is a full place setting for at least 10 but didn’t want to unwrap every piece. It also has all the extras; serving platters, creamer and sugar dish, etc…
Any help would be appreciated.
Items that were (re)decorated by other companies are often of lesser value because the market demands “originals”, even if some decoration studios did a better job than the manufacturers. But then it’s not a matter of overall (re)decoration quality but the much smaller chance of finding matching replacements as decoration studios never created large numbers.
It sounds like you have one set that is marked with different manufacturer markings but shows an identical decoration. Such sets are called “decoration marriages” and are created by studios or hobbyists which had a batch of non-matching porcelain left over and created a “new” set, based on an unified decoration. As the demand for such sets is not very high, they are very hard to sell (and therefore priced accordingly).
