Homer Laughlin China Set

The actual pattern name is: Embassy http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Embassy+TH6+Homer+Laughlin&aq=f&oq= Theme 1939 - The Theme shape was designed to exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The mark that is in your photo is 1942. I have to admit to having a conflict of interest in the appraisal as I have a 100 pc set of Virginia Rose for sale at US $365.25. I don't know you age or financial status but sets in great condition are becoming more rare. I want to make a distinction between Vintage and Antique, Vintage is up to 99 years old and antique is greater than 100. My price for my Virginia Rose is firm and I will not sell below that market value and will increase the price as the pieces get older and move into antique status. There is much fragmentation of sets and attrition occuring to American made wares. This is due to many factors but one constant theme is baby boomers distributing estates. While the internet has made it easier to fill missing pieces in a set, or to acquire additional pieces for an equitable distribution of a set to children and siblings, the market is however fragmenting larger sets. My price currently is at a dollar a day. The proposition is simple, you want a set of 12 Homer Laughling 1930 Virginia Rose in excellent shape, two serving bowls, platters, creamer, gravy boats, or you do not! I would prefer to sell to any international investor, yes antiques are investments, or to hold myself and cotinue to accumulate, than break a set of that size if it is of a consistent quality. If you need "fast cash" you can reduce the price accordingly. But as a suggestion, go to a used boook store and read the index for your pattern and theme. Purchase ziploc bags, bubble wrap, and a "dish-pak" packing carton. Put the set into the ziploc bags, seal, wrap with bubble wrap, and put the used book with a paper clip on the page of your pattern in the box and seal it! At a minimum sell at fair market for the set at $300.00 to $500.00. But if you are relatively young, setting aside these items with sound documentation, is a good move. Taking the prices of the internet and multiplying at a rate of pieces at for sale price at Replacements LTD is not the "replacement value" of the items, but the set itself if it is consistent across all the pieces is worth more than that! I'll sell my set at fair market value or my children will have genuine antiques, not vintage plates. I have little idea what "retro" is~ If they were a gift I would keep them

I bought a set of plates and dishes from a thrift store when I moved to Washington. I noticed that it had everything in it including: 9 dinner plates 13 bowls 9 smaller plates 1 pitcher 1 gravy boat 1 gravy boat plate and a few other items that I'm not sure of exactly what they are. I looked on the bottom of my larger plates and there was the name Homer Laughlin 1976 or 1978 I can't quite make out the year on them. The smaller dishes don't have that on them. I was wondering if these may be worth something and how much. If anyone knows it would be great to know. Thank you.