I found a suitcase full of valuable (and interesting!) antiques!

[@skiracer]

Dear David Harper, nice boot of goodies. Thanks for showing us this cool stuff you find and teaching us a bit about them. Hi from the USA!

[@robertadowns217]

A great find, David. I love Royal Worcester... House clearance must be exciting!

[@teepeewabbit]

The deco cup and saucer David--whoosh gorgeous. What finds! Your car boot looks like mine. Hope you are well-Shae in Oz

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Messy then!

[@sjt609]

Oh my goodness, the Royal Copenhagen china was superb but the tea cups were my favourite. (I'm confident my mother has two of those tea cup/saucers...excited to find them now.) Thank you David, have a lovely week. See you on Wednesday. xx

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

I hope she does…good hunting!

[@jleb22]

Another great video David, thanks for the Royal Worcester tip.

[@andrewc247]

Great video and information David, thank you so much, they are all lovely little treasures, I hope you do well with them 👍🏻

[@salfordnurse]

Last year I bought an auction lot for around £20. It was a large collection of Ephemera consisting mainly of photo albums, negatives etc. Whilst they may not be that valuable, or antiques in the traditional sense. The story that you get from them is priceless. They range from around 1890 up to 1950, and all appear to be of the same family. Yo see young men in images free WW1 and again pre ww2. Later ones some of these young men aren't present. Did they move away or did they never return home? Another contained a box of film stills from the 1920s film, The loves of Jeannie Ney (which starred Brigitte Helm from Metropolis) Initially I wondered if they were later reproductions, but there was a letter with them, which I had translated from French and it's from the one of the directors Assistants, from when they were filming in Paris, so it appears they may be of the period. Interestingly these images were not on the image galleries on the recent dvd release of the film. As well as being stills, they also show behind the scenes images of the crew. Again an other little story, that we will probably never know completely, but we are privileged by buying them of getting a glimpse into the lives of people from so long ago

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

How wonderful, what a find and that’s a better example of the journeys you can be taken on with these things. Enough there to make a Netflix series!

[@davidjones6470]

Another awesome vid, nice one David 👌

[@helenabiesma5560]

yes love beautiful plates though - bvecause of good weather did not allow me time to check for pics etc

[@0210rokvist]

I felt so sorry for you and the Royal Cph. But you know it all

[@thomasdrury1600]

Hi David, I have a few bits of Japanese porcelain (I assume because they say "made in Japan"on them) however I am really struggling to find/ understand/ read/ match the porcelain marks to anything. I have looked online and they don't match anything. Further there is nothing online that allows you to match the era symbols which would be helpful. I would assume that they're not worth much due to them having "made in Japan on them, so they are probably quite recent even though one set says "hand painted on it" and as I got them in a lot at auction (for which I was buying for something else probably vintage tools as that's what I know a bit about). However I decided to try and learn about them and try and learn a bit about the porcelain and where it is from as I usually do with other bits that come in lots, so that the knowledge may help me in the future. And it's just interesting to learn. I am still no further into finding out much about them despite hours of researching, although I have found dome useful websites for the future and some other helpful info. The marks do look similar to some I've seen while trying to research but they never match, which is probably understandable and they probably mean completely different things anyway. I am just so far into trying to find out more information that I don't want to give up and the knowledge would far outweigh what they're worth. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. And I'm more than welcome to send any information if anyone would like to help me. If not don't worry as I'm sure one day I will eventually find out the makers/ location/s they were made and they're dates. Thank you, Thomas.

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

sadly, ‘made in Japan’ is not a good sign for anything of much value Thomas. it’s a long google search I’m afraid! D

[@thomasdrury1600]

@@DavidHarperAntiques thank you, I didn't think it would be

[@OriginalNethead]

Looked in the case, saw Royal Copenhagen ....(face fell) The Christmas/Mother's Day plates are a tough sell here. Talk about long-tailed stock! I could see the Worcester mark but not its details. 1939 is late for hand-painted china. I'd take a wire cutter to the plate hanger ASAP, but I was trained by archivists and plate hangers eat plates. Unless the plate was already trashed of course.

[@bobbynir2893]

hi can you tell me about reticulated plates