Looking for info on a dinner and tea service left by great aunt

My DGM gave us as our wedding present a tea service she had collected as a bride. Fragile and gold edged and and blobby rust colour. I thanked her and noticed my aunt with pursed lips making a face. Roll on ten years, my DGM long gone and aunt recently died. My mother rolled up with a cardboard box of china. Evidently the aunt had refused to let the china come to me and for years after I used it (ten cups saucers and plates so very useful for coffee mornings) . I then saw its twin in an antique/ junk shop. Evidently it was sold piecemeal by the co op and was a very popular idea pre hire purchase. I'm very fond of it but it's not very pretty.

Here it is on ebay.

Oh it is pretty Stansgran. I have just 4 cups and matching saucers from a 1940's tea set of my Grans. I use one saucer all the time as a pretty soap dish, cups hold fallen rose heads from the garden in summer, along with daisies, buttercups, thanks GD. Other saucers hold shells, beach treasures from both GC, potpourri, conkers, pine cones in winter.
A few years ago I was able to put the age to a sort of cake stand I used from Mum, for ripening Toms in my kitchen. I found a website with the history of the Potteries. Plain little stand, but, I believe, 1890's.

I also have China tea set which was my Nanas , l think it's known as a Harlequin tea set,it's in a cardboard box under the bed.Cant quite bring myself to move it on even although I don't use it.

I have a lovely Colclough harlequin tea set and a complete Noritake porcelain dinner service left to me by my parents. It's beautiful but never used. I couldn't bear to get rid of it though- perhaps that's a job for the next generation.

I also have the Colclough Harlequin tea set. It was my mothers pride and joy and is packed up in a wardrobe somewhere. I might start to use it. I envy you the Noritake dinner service Katek.

Yes Nellie, I was born near Potteries and still look at the makings! Although been in Scotland for 30+ years!!

Have you thought of selling it to a China matching service. A friend of mine was left some tea and dinner services and she sold them to a company selling spares to make up sets.

They do have to be in perfect condition.

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I got a Wedgewood "Ice Rose" dinner service as a wedding present in 1969. I loved it then and still love it now and have added lots more pieces.
It was very expensive then but worth little now, does anyone buy a complete dinner service or teaset now?

J52, that is so interesting. Do you have a link to any of those 'matching' companies?

This thread reminded me that I have a wonderful Royal Copenhagen tea service with one of the cups broken- so I have e-mailed a friend in Copenhagen who will try and find a match- as it is a very expensive service- never use it but it looks really nice on the dresser.

I still have two or three tea sets, one MIL's from the 1930s (Royal Doulton and quite art deco in style), another cheaper one from the 1950s and my own Colclough one from the 1960s.
They are never used and sit in a cabinet (the 1950s one is in a box in the attic).

I know that they're not worth much these days, although someone told me that Russians coming to live over here snap them up from charity shops for some reason!

It was very expensive then but worth little now, does anyone buy a complete dinner service or teaset now?

I never had a complete dinner service so I treated myself to a fairly plain Royal Worcester set; however, I don't think it was made in the UK
We use it for high days and holidays

I have a very pretty Royal Albert tea set that was my aunt's, it is the Sunflower pattern, and I have never seen another like it. But I have only used it once when I had some friends to afternoon tea. It is a shame, but it spends most of it's life in a cupboard.

An acquaintance at a lunch I attended told me she took a complete set of Royal Albert Old country Roses (I think) to a charity shop and they wouldn't take them as they had so much of it they couldn't sell it. When a friend celebrated her silver wedding about 30 years ago we all clubbed together to buy pieces from it as it was so expensive. How taste changes.