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Find out what's really worth money in your house, before it goes to the thrift store for a dollar.

Five plain-English guides that walk you through your own shelves the way I would if I were standing beside you: which marks to check, what each piece honestly sells for today, and which few are worth real money.

  • Stop guessing. The exact marks that separate a $10 piece from a $1,000 one
  • Stop underselling. Honest price ranges for 292 items, from real recorded sales
  • Stop wasting weekends. One evening per cabinet, with a checklist in hand
  • Enjoy the good things. Use the china, crystal and silver without ruining them
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What this means for you

Most families clearing a house make the same four mistakes. These books stop all four.

I have walked through estates for twenty-five years. The money is almost never lost to thieves or bad luck. It is lost to not knowing, in the first weekend, by nice people in a hurry.

The valuable piece goes out with the junk

You'll know the few marks and shapes that mean "set this aside," so nothing worth real money leaves in a donation box.

Weeks lost listing $10 pieces

You'll know which pieces honestly bring $10 to $50, so you can sell them as a lot and spend your time on the few that matter.

Taking the first dealer's offer

You'll walk into any conversation knowing the mark, the era and the honest range. Nobody can low-ball what you already understand.

Ruining the good things by using them wrong

You'll know exactly what can go in the dishwasher, why glasses turn cloudy, and how to keep silver bright, so the good things finally get used.

What walks out the door

The pieces that left cheap, and what they really sold for.

These are not asking prices or wishful guesses. Each one is a documented sale, printed in the books beside its source: the ordinary-looking object on the left, the figure it actually brought on the right.

And it isn't only kitchen and garage finds. The fine china, cut crystal, figurines, Hummels, Lladró, Royal Doulton and Precious Moments each get the same treatment, with the honest range every ordinary example brings.

The only thing between the two columns was someone who turned it over first.

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Records are outliers by definition, which is why every entry also prints the honest range ordinary examples bring.

Sources named in full inside · Dinky's Auction · shopgoodwill.com · Wroda Auctions · Blackwell Auctions · Potteries Auctions

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What It's Worth

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The whole house, room by room: 250 pages, 214 items, 12 marks plates.

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  • Kitchen to attic to garage, in money-first order
  • Printable Room Sweep checklists
  • 50+ documented sales with sources
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  • What It's Worth · 250 pages
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  • Precious Moments & Snowbabies · 34 pages
  • Use It Every Day · 44 pages
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Each guide is sold on its own too. Pick the one for the cabinet you're facing.

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What It's Worth: The Whole-House Appraisal System

250 pages214 items12 marks plates

Book 1 of 5 · The main book

What It's Worth: The Whole-House Appraisal System

Walk every room in the order that finds the most money first.

This is for you ifyou're downsizing, settling an estate, or just curious, and you need to know what deserves a second look before anything is sold, donated or given away.
  • 9 rooms, 214 items, from the kitchen and china hutch to the linen closet, jewelry box, attic, garage and holiday boxes
  • The 12 Marks Plates: backstamps, sterling vs. plate, British hallmarks, cast-iron logos and more, the marks that decide the price
  • A "Your Task" on every entry, one check you can do tonight with a flashlight
  • Real sales, named and dated, plus the honest range ordinary examples bring
  • Printable Room Sweep checklists, so nothing leaves a room until its boxes are ticked
Kitchen & PantryChina HutchLinen ClosetLiving RoomJewelry BoxAttic & ToysGarageSportingHoliday Boxes

"One skillet read correctly pays for this book two hundred times over."

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44 pages32 entriesTMK-1 to TMK-8

Book 2 of 5 · Collector guide

Hummel & Goebel: Plates, Bells, Lamps & Every Trademark

Know in one evening which Hummels are worth researching, and stop listing the rest one by one.

This is for you ifyou have a shelf, a cabinet or a box of Hummels (yours, your mother's, or a whole estate's) and no idea which ones matter.
  • Read any base in a minute: the mold number, the size letter, and all 8 trademarks from the 1935 crown to the Millennium Bee
  • Spot the few that still pay: early marks, large sizes, and the short list, including Adventure Bound, Ring Around the Rosie and the Apple Tree giants
  • Real numbers, not wishes: most bring $10 to $50, while the /X Apple Tree jumbos sell for about $2,000 to $6,000 each
  • Plates, bells and lamps: why the famous 1971 plate brings $20 to $75 now, and why older lamps still pay
  • Genuine vs. "Hummel-style": the three things a real one always has together
  • How to sell a whole shelf: lots for the many, careful research for the few
Reading the baseThe trademark ladderThe figurine shelf, pricedPlates, bells & lamps

A four-post Full Bee "Signs of Spring" brought $5,500 at Blackwell Auctions. Later versions of the same figurine usually bring $10 to $50. The base tells you which one you have.

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36 pages24 entriesBackstamps & HN numbers

Book 3 of 5 · Collector guide

Lladró & Royal Doulton: Every Backstamp & the HN Numbers

Stop guessing what the cabinet of porcelain ladies is worth. Date every piece and find the few that pay.

This is for you ifyou have the tall, pale Spanish figures or the colorful English ladies in full gowns, and want to know which are ordinary and which are special.
  • Date a Lladró in under a minute from the blue bellflower backstamp, and tell it apart from NAO, Zaphir and other lookalikes
  • Where Lladró holds its value: large groups ($300 to $1,500), numbered limited editions with papers, Gres pieces and early pieces
  • Read a Royal Doulton base: the HN number, the lion-on-crown mark, and the "add 1927" date code
  • The honest baseline: most Royal Doulton ladies bring $15 to $60, so you'll know where the real money hides instead
  • The pieces that surprise: early HN figures, flambé glazes, certain character jugs and Bunnykins
  • Condition checks for broken fingers, lost flowers, crazing and hidden repairs
Reading a Lladró baseLladró, pricedReading a Doulton baseRoyal Doulton, priced

A Royal Doulton Bunnykins prototype, "Celebration Time," sold for £35,500 in 2022. Most Bunnykins bring $15 to $60. This guide shows you the difference.

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34 pages22 entriesEvery annual mark

Book 4 of 5 · Collector guide

Precious Moments & Snowbabies: Every Annual Mark & the Original 21

Find the handful worth real money on a shelf of hundreds, and move the rest without the headache.

This is for you ifyou (or someone you love) collected the teardrop-eyed figurines or the frosty white Snowbabies for years, and now need to know what to keep, give or sell.
  • Date any Precious Moments piece from the tiny symbol pressed into its base, a different one every year since 1981
  • Why no mark at all can mean the earliest pieces, and which of the Original 21 from 1978 are worth a closer look
  • The famous one: "God Loveth a Cheerful Giver" (E-1378), and what good examples really sell for
  • Snowbabies, honestly priced: most bring $10 to $40, larger sets more, and how to keep the frosting white
  • The antique German snow babies from the 1890s to 1930s, where even tiny pieces can bring real money, and how to tell them from later copies
  • How to sell a big collection and pack fragile bisque so it arrives in one piece
Reading the baseThe shelf, pricedDept 56 SnowbabiesAntique snow babies & selling

Most Precious Moments pieces bring $5 to $30. A good unmarked "God Loveth a Cheerful Giver" brings $100 to $300. Knowing which you have takes about ten seconds.

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44 pages32 entriesChina · crystal · silver

Book 5 of 5 · Care guide

Use It Every Day: The Care Guide for Good China, Crystal & Silver

Use grandmother's china, crystal and silver every day, without ruining a single piece.

This is for you ifthe good dishes have been "saved for good" for twenty years, and you'd like to finally enjoy them without worrying you'll wreck them.
  • The one-load sort: exactly what can go in the dishwasher, and what never should (gold rims, good crystal, hollow-handle knives)
  • Cloudy glasses, solved: the 60-second vinegar test that tells a film you can wipe off from etching you can't
  • Lead crystal, without the panic: the plain rules health agencies actually give
  • Silver that stays bright: why a rubber band is an emergency, how to polish without wearing away value, and storage that stops tarnish
  • Stack, store and display without chips, and the three places the good things must never live
  • The whole point: set the table on a Tuesday
The dishwasher questionThe crystal clinicThe silver clinicStorage & display

Many "ruined" cloudy glasses aren't ruined at all. The vinegar test tells you in a minute, and a bottle of vinegar brings them back.

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Everything in the What It's Worth Collection

Five books, one price: $235 of books for $57.

What It's WorthThe whole house, room by room · 250 pages
$97$37
Hummel & GoebelEvery trademark, the figurines that pay · 44 pages
$37$17
Lladró & Royal DoultonBackstamps, HN numbers, honest values · 36 pages
$37$17
Precious Moments & SnowbabiesAnnual marks, the Original 21 · 34 pages
$37$17
Use It Every DayChina, crystal & silver care · 44 pages
$27$12
Total list price$235
At today's single-book prices$100
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The honest part

The deal these books make with you.

Most price guides make everything sound like a jackpot. These are built to be trusted with a real decision, which means telling you the truth even when it's boring.

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A record price dressed up as the "normal" value

You get the honest common range too, every time.

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Claiming a book can appraise your exact piece

It can't. It teaches you what decides the answer.

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Old book values from before the market fell

The ranges were rechecked against recent sale records.

Eleanor Hayes
Eleanor Hayes

Who's telling you this

Twenty-five years of turning things over.

I'm Eleanor Hayes. I have spent a working lifetime walking through other people's houses at the hardest moment (a downsizing, an estate, a cleanout) and watching what leaves and what stays.

I'm not a dealer trying to buy your things, and I'm not selling you a dream. I'm the person who tells you to stop, turn it over, and read the bottom before the box is taped shut. These five books are that walkthrough, written down, so you can do it in your own house without me there.

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Questions

Questions people ask

Should I buy one book or all five?

If you're facing a whole house, get all five: it's $57 for all five ($235 at list price), only $20 more than the main book alone, and the guides go deeper on exactly the cabinets families struggle with most. If you only have one kind of collection (say, a shelf of Hummels), the single guide for it is the sensible, cheaper choice.

I'm not a collector. Is this for me?

It's written for exactly you. Collectors already know their corner. These books are for the person facing a full house, a parent's cabinet, or a box from the attic, who needs to know what deserves a second look before anything goes out the door.

Will it tell me what MY piece is worth?

No book can, and any book that claims to is misleading you. The values are records of real past sales and honest common ranges. Condition, completeness and the day of the sale decide what any single piece brings. What the books do is show you which pieces deserve research, which marks decide the answer, and how not to sell the wrong thing cheap.

How do I get the books? Is anything shipped?

Nothing ships. The moment your payment clears, Hotmart emails you a download link for the PDFs. Open them on a phone, tablet or computer. No app, no login, no account to remember.

My eyesight isn't what it was. Can I read them easily?

Yes. They're sized for standard letter paper, so you can print any page at home, and on a tablet you can zoom as large as you like.

Can I print them?

Yes, every page. The room checklists and marks plates are made to be printed and carried into the room with you.

Do I pay again for new editions?

Never. Markets move, so the books get updated, and every future edition is sent free to everyone who bought it.

What if it's not for me?

Seven days, full refund, no questions, and you keep the books. If reading one chapter doesn't make you go turn something over, I'd rather give your money back.

Don't let the valuable piece leave in the donation box.

Five honest books, 408 pages, 292 items priced from real sales. Know what you have before anything is sold, donated or given away.

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