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I've been collecting antique teacups for quite a while now and over those years I have come up with my own things that I look for when I'm purchasing antique teacups.

If you want some tips on what to look for, what not to look for, and how to figure out if a teacup is good or not, follow along on our journey! Hi welcome to Tea with Jann,

I am Jann! Today, yep, we're looking at antique teacups and why do I have these. If you're new here welcome, please subscribe and follow along for all things tea-related;

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if you've been around for a while you know that these are not my normal teacups that I collect I collect a very specific teacup it is Aynsley is the maker and it has to be at least from like the 50s 60s

at the earliest or you know later, it also has to be the color turquoise and it has to be usable because I'm going to drink out of them so you might be like Jann, 'what are you doing with all these teacups?'

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Places to purchase antique teacups:

Etsy

eBay

Facebook Marketplace

Thrift Stores

Vintage Shops

Antique Stores

Charity Thrift Shops

Yard Sales

yeah I know... I have a problem and I haven't talked to you guys about this someday,

someday we will discuss the vast amount of teacups that are not turquoise Aynsley's For today however,

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we are going to use these teacups to demonstrate how to purchase a teacup, an antique teacup. Let's just get this one from precariously sitting up there.

All right let's move these backs up oh that's a little bit safer feeling as you know I've always stated that when you're collecting or starting out to collect antique teacups

that you might want to narrow it down by either a maker or you know a year or a color or something because otherwise your teacup collection can get out of hand

however i do love mix matched as well so maybe that's your maybe that's your jam maybe it's like i want mix matched and i'm just gonna fill my house with teacups who am i to judge

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so there's many different ways that you can buy antique teacups you can buy online so etsy or eBay you can look through Instagram and find different places to purchase teacups

what one person considers a flea bite is completely different to what another person considers a flea bite as well you know you might run into somebody that repairs a teacup and doesn't disclose that to you

so you really want to be able to trust the person that you're purchasing it from if it's online another way to purchase antique teacups of course is in person so thrift stores are great

because you might be able to score that really great deal or like yard sales and stuff you you might be completely shocked at what you can score for the price and for the quality

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and it's amazing another place is antique shops that's where you're gonna pay a little bit more money but chances are that you're gonna actually find something

that you know is a little bit rarer or that is maybe a little bit more special maybe i mean thrift stores are great as well i do find though that in the heat of the moment at a thrift store i'm more likely to get

you know lost in the moment and not actually follow through with you know checking the teacup over appropriately to make sure that it is going to manage to be in my collection

i just get so excited that i am just like oh my god i can't believe i found this teacup for a dollar and i snag it and a lot of the times we thrift shop at you know um charity thrift shops

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and i'm completely fine with that i don't really pay attention too much that way if it's going to a charity so we have like an SPCA and we have like you know a few different ones that Jeanette

and I love to frequent and i'm completely fine if i get it home and then on further inspection it doesn't meet my standards

and it doesn't make it into my permanent collection i'm completely okay with that because i know that it's going the money's going to a charity

however all that to say a great way to make sure that you're getting a good teacup is to give it a good go in over

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and how i do that is a few different ways that i have learned the best thing is to make sure that you don't have gloves on

so i know in today's day and age a lot of people are wearing gloves and you can't really feel and touch so you know you can always use hand sanitizer before

and after touching your teacups the first thing that i like to do is kind of give it a go over like who is the maker so this one here it is in ainsley that there uh back stamp

it will tell you a lot of information so once you figure out what type or what what maker you want then

you can figure out if the maker used different stamps throughout the years to figure out how old it is so this one here is a Hammer sly,

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Hammer sly i'm bad at pronouncing things my apologies my brain's still not 100 working well so the second thing that

i usually do is then i look at the color so this one here you can see that there's like a little imperfection on it and i'll go around the whole thing and look for scrapes

or scratches the difficult thing of course especially at a thrift store more often than an antique store is that a lot of times there's dirt on it so it might be difficult to tell

what is dirt or what's underneath that dirt the other thing is that sometimes they put stickers in weird places

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o here you can tell that there's a little bit of the paint chipped off and there's a little bit of like discoloration it looks like when it was being painted there was a little bit of gold put on the green by mistake

when it was made so you look at that then you can look at the back side and you can see on this one that there's a little bit of kind of like bubbling and stuff underneath and then

the next thing that i do is i will then start really feeling the cup over so if you take your finger and you're just gonna go around so if you look closely at this teacup

it actually has dents down those are on purpose and that's how the cup is made but if you feel around

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you can feel if there is a rough spot and if somebody either painted over it trying to hide that rough spot

or that crack now the next thing i and i do that everywhere so i'm trying to like feel my way around and i do that on the plate as well so you go around and you feel

and you really just give it a good touching with your hands another thing to really be mindful of is the handle so the handle is one of the most frequent places that is going to be tried to be repaired if it's broken

so you want to give that a really good close looking over and a lot of times it's like right where it joins to the cup

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so you want to really pay attention and again using your hands to feel it over to see if there's anything going on or anything a muck and

you're just really trying to make sure that there's no nicks that there's no nothing the next thing that i have noticed is that sometimes there can be like um a crack or that almost like the base is cracked off

and just and this actually i i think i i thought i was getting one that was at a really good deal so

and i didn't because it was cracked and it was worthless because it completely fell apart so the next thing that i would do is that i actually take the cup if it's real bone china it's going to be translucent a little bit

so if you take the cup and you hold it up to the light you can kind of see through it a little bit and this is going to really illuminate any of those cracks or anything like that so i can see on this one that there's like a little mark there

so then i go in with my fingernail and ever so gently i rub it back and forth and my fingernail catches slightly on it

and that's when i can tell that there's something there but looking at it this way i wouldn't be able to tell

but when i hold it up there you can see that there's like a little darker mark and then putting your fingernail over top of it and scraping through

you can feel it and that is how i would assess a teacup of course it's perfect if you can actually fill it with water and see if it holds water another thing that you can do is you can buy one of the jewelry

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what are these called loop you know the magnifying things and you can actually go and use one of these

i only recently got this and i'm not very good at it so i find i still do the whole like you know like holding it up really close and stuff like that but yes look at how beautiful

this one is this is a paragon let me see if i can show you without breaking it

it's so beautiful beautiful beautiful roses these are both ainsley's and this one is like a beautiful royal blue so pretty that's another ainsley the corset shape and that's another thing

that you could just collect like corsets now the interesting thing is that these rosebuds this is a royal Albert forget me not roses and i really like that shape it's so pretty

i thought this one was pretty too look at that how beautiful is that so pretty so and there you have it the way that i look for teacups

and what i look at i want to know do you guys collect antique teacups let me know in the comments down below i can't wait to chat with you guys until next time take care bye.

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