Any antique sanitary ware experts?

[Mikes]

I've been tasked with selling an old w.c. bowl for some elderly relatives. It was saved by them from a demolition job many years ago and was in their house with a pot plant in it for as long as I can remember. In recent years it was relegated to the greenhouse hence its dirty state but think it will clean-up well. It's called 'The Ripple' but I can't find anything about it on the net and most searches seem to end on American sites. Does anyone know of any reputable valuers / dealers for this sort of thing as looking on fleabay, there are very few for sale and vary in asking price from a few hundred to several thousand. Pictures attached in the uncleaned state.

 

[winchman]

I would look for a specialist auction company.
Ebay is all about sold listings as it can be advertised for a million but what it actually sold for us what you need, but its so rare it really needs a specialist

 

[Kayos]

They have a limited market but in my experience if somebody wants one they will pay

 

[gaz1]

get what you deserve in an unclean state

as goes for selling them they are only worth something if they are really desired and your in the right area

the internal emblem and look carefully for cracks you also need rear photos as well

though that one looks like a rear fitting which means its not that old

 

[minimutly]

Thought they were all rear fitting....

 

[gaz1]

Thought they were all rear fitting....

nope they was top flush as easier to seal than a rear flush and it was in 1850s

only when they became mass produced did they become rear flush as the sealing tech had caught up by then

but to give you an idea of sealing

it was hemp rope with grease

 

[minimutly]

nope they was top flush as easier to seal than a rear flush and it was in 1850s

only when they became mass produced did they become rear flush as the sealing tech had caught up by then

but to give you an idea of sealing

it was hemp rope with grease

You missed my point.....

 

[bricol]

You missed my point.....

You're too westernised . . .

 

[arther dailey]

I've been tasked with selling an old w.c. bowl for some elderly relatives. It was saved by them from a demolition job many years ago and was in their house with a pot plant in it for as long as I can remember. In recent years it was relegated to the greenhouse hence its dirty state but think it will clean-up well. It's called 'The Ripple' but I can't find anything about it on the net and most searches seem to end on American sites. Does anyone know of any reputable valuers / dealers for this sort of thing as looking on fleabay, there are very few for sale and vary in asking price from a few hundred to several thousand. Pictures attached in the uncleaned state.

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reputable and antique dealer ? bit of a contradiction there

 

[bourbon]

Drew Pritchard, He'll give you 20 quid for it

 

[dobbslc]

Drew Pritchard, He'll give you 20 quid for it

"I like it, It's so naive"

 

[Domdom]

Looks like Imperial Bathrooms, an old pattern. We have an IB old fashioned style one with a high level cistern. It's in a beige which is also now discontinued and was a real pain when the Mrs chipped the basin. Took me over a year for one to come up on EBAY. But I do recall seeing that pattern when we were at the showroom.

If someone wants it they would pay good money, but you might be waiting a long time for that someone to appear.

 

[DAPPH]

I've been tasked with selling an old w.c. bowl for some elderly relatives. It was saved by them from a demolition job many years ago and was in their house with a pot plant in it for as long as I can remember. In recent years it was relegated to the greenhouse hence its dirty state but think it will clean-up well. It's called 'The Ripple' but I can't find anything about it on the net and most searches seem to end on American sites. Does anyone know of any reputable valuers / dealers for this sort of thing as looking on fleabay, there are very few for sale and vary in asking price from a few hundred to several thousand. Pictures attached in the uncleaned state.

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That pan looks very modern as it has a water filled stink trap & the flush is internal round the rim of the pot .

Earliest flushing bog I've sat on was mounted on an 8 inch sand glazed pipe bedded in with what looked like lead powder & putty into the top of the collar . It was a round bowl straight through drop with wooden beech cheeks for you to sit on . There were no lid fitting holes ..just a hand lift able to take off wooden lid that you'd stand to the side of the closet wall as you sat and contemplated the world . Lid diameter about 16 inches , no decorations or makers name on it either . . Flush was a long drop lead water pipe from a cast iron cistern with a flared end that dug in to your back if you leant back too far. When it was flushed the salt glazed pipes took the load out to a simple slabbed over dilly pan that had a long gravel soak away running down the garden under the garden path . IIRC it was installed as an add on to to the rear of house built in the 1780',s

 

[pedrobedro]

Our outside cludge has a wooden cistern lined with lead and the siphon flush is iron with a ceramic top. The house is from 1865 and it may be the original.

 

[bourbon]

https://toiletology.com/resources/museums/gladstone-pottery-museum/ might be worth giving them a call.

 

[Onoff]

Isn't there a toilet museum somewhere, might be worth a look for useful information.

It would be good to get to the bottom of it.

 

[eddie49]

You could try offering it to this Dealer:

Salvo Directory - Catchpole & Rye Kent UK Antique Bathroom

Fine quality luxury bathrooms made in Kent, staying true to the methods used from times past. The collection includes baths, showers, basins, lavatories, taps, towel rails, radiators & accessories. Head office: Saracens Dairy, Pluckley Road, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0SA +44 (0) 1233 840840 Here...

www.salvoweb.com

or to this private customer:

Wanted listings wanted old toilet" the excelsior"- SalvoWEB France

wanted white or blue and white excelsior toilet in good contion . eliot.m@wanadoo.fr

www.salvoweb.com

 

[Cobbler]

Get a good price for it & you will be feeling flush, it’s worth more if it’s bog standard!

 

[Onoff]

Get a good price for it & you will be feeling flush, it’s worth more if it’s bog standard!

Ooh, someone's on a roll!

 

[prepman]

Ooh, someone's on a roll!

Not to be sniffed at.