# Anybody know much about antique porcelain? (Garage sale find)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-much-about-antique-porcelain-garage-sale-find/629702 "2012-07-28T19:10:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-much-about-antique-porcelain-garage-sale-find/629702/1 "2012-07-28T19:10:07Z")

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Picked up a [very pretty porcelain pitcher](http://i.imgur.com/YOmYF.jpg) this morning at a garage sale. It has some wear around the edges and normal porcelain crackling, but otherwise in very nice shape with no chips or cracks.

There is [a hallmark on the bottom](http://i.imgur.com/PoLN1.jpg) which I’ve figured out is from the Ohio China Company (East Palestine, OH) which was in business around 1890-1912). The hallmark says O.C.C.O over “LimogeS Porcelain” which you can see [a clearer version of here](http://www.kovels.com/images/marks/pottery___porcelain/banners/banners018m.jpg). According to[this page](http://www.mygrannysatticantiques.com/html/porcelain_pottery_china_marks_1.htm) (way down, search for “Ohio China”), this hallmark was used in the early 1900s, so I guess it was probably made between 1900-1912.

Anybody know enough about this stuff to tell me if this is worth anything? Was this a good find? Besides what I’ve found out about its history, I can’t figure out anything about its value.

I only paid $4 for it, so if it’s worthless I won’t be out anything.

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**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-much-about-antique-porcelain-garage-sale-find/629702/2 "2012-07-28T20:00:21Z")

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I believe your pitcher that was part of a set that included a bowl intended to sit on a dry sink. Try a search with the name and dry sink or dry sink bowl and pitcher, either on Google or EBay.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-much-about-antique-porcelain-garage-sale-find/629702/3 "2012-07-29T03:33:46Z")

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Thanks for the info, very interesting!