Lefton - Not Junk

 I've been told that Lefton China is junk. More often than once. But I don't believe it.  I find Lefton China all over the place, in beautiful patterns of dishwares to trinkets and utility type stuff.

What I don't find, is a thriving market for it on EBAY.  At all.  These must be the people who believe Lefton is junk because at my local Bid Board Auction Lefton pieces sell for a particularly good sum of money.

I guess it is all in location.  In this part of the country, where people prefer to buy at auctions, Lefton is doing well.  It's not doing so well elsewhere it seems!

This is a piece from a set I purchased at an estate sale in Biglerville, PA.  I found the box containing all the pieces, 4 cups and snack plates, a cigarette holder, two ashtrays, and a teapot under a table, completely overlooked.
The snackplates and cups, ashtrays and cigarette holder are all still available on EBAY (March 2016).  The teapot sold some time ago.  This pattern is called Rose Chintz, and it was, at one time, all the rage in polite society.