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Monday, Jul. 18, 2005 - 9:09 p.m.

A tag (rummage) sale story from last weekend�

Lease fell in love with this china (Lennox "Desert Rose" series), found at a local tag sale last weekend. The sale was at a home in the closest thing to a "gated" community here in Mohall. There are something like 8 houses behind the homestead of the founder of the local university- two are actual Frank Lloyd Wright designed beauties.

Anyway...

The folks living in the tag sale house are moving into a smaller home, and had a photo album full of very nice old wood furniture they would show you on request (nothing under $500, some running in the thousands- too pricy for our budget). And...a box with 49 pieces of this mint condition china.

Now- Lease and I have been married for a little over 25 years, and she has never bought a set of china. When we exchanged our vows, we only received a couple of gifts from family and coworkers. China wasn't in anyone we knew�s budget back in 1980.

We still have some of the inexpensive stainless steel flatware our boss bought us , and I think I have one of the hand towels from the 6 piece set our fellow roller skate makers gave us squirreled away somewhere.

But I digress...

She has bid on a few sets that mildly interested her at auction through the years, but never really acted like she wanted to actually buy any of them.

And then she saw these. Since the box only stated �49 pieces- Lennox Desert Rose", she asked the owner what was in the box. He said he would get us another box to move the pieces into, so we could see for ourselves.

There were: 9 dinner plates, 9 salad plates, 10 small cups w/saucers, 10 "butter" plates (whatever that is), three large platters and oval bowls that sit on them (soup tureens?), and 8 coffee mugs.

No small bowls, but more than enough pieces to set a very nice Thanksgiving table.

The price on the box?

$150!

For fine china? There was no doubt that this stuff was the real thing (with the other items they were trying to sell also being �rich folks� commodities). The owned told us that his wife didn�t have any place to put it in the home they were moving in to (must be a lot smaller house, I guess).

That said- I know that Lennox makes top quality china, but since it was a tag sale I asked him if he would take any less.

He dropped to $125. I took his offer (much to the dismay of the woman who walked up to us as we were repacking the pieces into the boxes).

When we came home, I checked out the Internet to see if we got a good buy or not. Found out that the product line was made from 1997 to 2000, and is now retired.

If you want to buy replacement pieces (there seems to be a ton of places online that specialize in that field), you can pick up one of the dinner plates for...

$29!

A cup and saucer on one site was $30. That's for EACH cup and saucer combo.

I have no idea what this stuff went for when it was bought by these people (purchased from the factory store in North Carolina, according to him), but I think we came away with a pretty good bargain...

Antique - Futuristic


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