Is it true that the dishes from the grandmother's sideboard will help to become rich?

The network is full of materials that now only wool grandmother's attic, find a couple of Christmas toys - and immediately a millionaire. Or there's a set. Tea. Like, it's exclusive. Soviet china - He's gonna get fifty thousand for it! Oh, yeah? Our people only such fairy tales and serve to free float quickly, and then you have a dacha in the suburbs. Yeah, sure!



We're in the newsroom. "Site" More than once faced with materials that generously describes how famously you can sell some badge or an old sewing machine and how happily collectors run. And when they began to understand, it turned out that not everything is so rosy.

Soviet porcelain

No, the old ones. Soviet plates You might be interested, but one simple thing to consider. Production then was mainly mass, exclusive things if carried out, then in very limited quantities and not for everyone. Most likely, they have been in collections (or museums) for a long time, and only by some lucky chance can you have such a thing.

Main point Everything that was in mass production and was available to any Soviet citizen, because it had a low price (and value), is hardly now more expensive. You can wonder as much as you like about the fortress of old Soviet cabinets, but if you try to sell it, then most likely you will face a fiasco. Heavy overall furniture will refuse to take and free, not that to get at least some money.



Let's move on. A great example. pianistThey have produced enough of them in their time. It seems like an exclusive thing. But try to get rid of this Soviet foe. In the best case, you yourself will have to pay extra for the strong loaders to pull him out of the apartment. How much is it? No one wants to take it for nothing.

Soviet porcelain Write that high value can be "Dulev" porcelain figurines (the factory was such). Here, for example, “Mother on a walk with children”, which was in serial production, will pull now for a good $ 10,000. When you first go to an online auction, you understand that there are many statuettes and the real price is $ 100 plus minus (and then we believe that the demand is very low).



The services of the former Leningrad Porcelain Factory named after Lomonosov, about which legends are also made, are directly available at the same auction. Full sets are no more expensive than the same 100 CU, and sometimes modest 50 or less. If you buy one piece, it can be even cheaper. In general, if you happy-holder A porcelain tea set doesn't mean you're rich now.

Very popular theme of sewing machines "Singer" (Zinger, Singer). Once someone somewhere bought them, but in fact they were produced a lot, and the value they have about the same as the Soviet piano. At the same time, the supply clearly exceeds the demand. But this does not mean that there are no valuable things.



Of all this abundance, we would only single out Soviet lensesThey were built on the basis of Zeiss technology, and therefore they are loved for the magnificent portraits, and also the distinctive signs that appeared at the very beginning of the young union of people's republics. This applies to awards and badges of various associations. And if lenses have a price tag of up to $1,000, then some icons can cost much more.

More than

There's also crystal, books, records, socialist-realist painting, old techniques. tree-toy, watches and even cup holders. There was a lot of this in the Soviet Union, and some families still have it. People are in no hurry to get rid of these things for several objective reasons. If, for example, you take your grandmother’s furniture set and shake it a little, it will last for the same number of years.



An old gramophone is not needed, it is unlikely to be sold, but in the interior it can look quite interesting. The same goes for everything else we listed earlier. Interior or for your own needs. By the way, did you know that some Roman Are they still low cost? They are much older than the Soviet Union.

From the editorial board, yes, we are skeptical. But that doesn't mean you have to get our attitude. You can try this case, and you can have completely different results. Be sure to share them with us in the comments! Or just talk about your experience selling old Soviet stuff.



Soviet porcelain - It's cool. We still have several plates at home: both factory home plates and those used in dining rooms. By the way, now interest in Soviet things is again increasing – read about it in our next material. In the meantime, we wish you a good mood and thank you for staying with us!