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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 200, 7 January 1942, Page 6

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HIGH INCOME TAX SENDS ENGLISH CHINA OVERSEAS Britain's rising income tax is liaA 7 - tng the incidental result .of releasing from private collections for Avider appreciation oAerseas more and more cf the beautiful porcelain of England.

The recent London 'sale of one private collection disclosed the astonishing fact that the owner was regularly using more than one hundred dinner, tea and dessert services of the finest porcelain. Collections like these are now being eagerly bought up by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, South America and the United States.

Prices vary amazingly. A Worcester dinner set, specially painted for the Prince Regent in Waterloo year by Humphrey Chamberlain, was knocked down for £380. In othet days it might well have fetched twice that amount. On the otliei hand, a private collection from Walton Hall, Warrington, went up to £2136. Chinese (Nanking) decorated In the Lowestoft tradition, brings in £3 a piece and, as a good seti will run to anything between 110 and 275 pieces, the cost is impressive.

The United States is particularly keen on Crown Derby- and old Worcester; and one London dealer is

now shipping dinner, tea and dessert scrviccs there to the value ol 6000 dollars worth a month. Americans used to buy as collectors. To-day they are buying for use. So do Canada. Australia and New Zealand. South Ameriea is the remaining market for decorative piece prized by those who just collect. -