Condition: Our photographs reveal the condition best -- please enlarge and zoom in on them, and examine them carefully. We often add graphics such as arrows, circles, and text boxes to our photos to point out things of interest that might be hard to see, such as a price tag or maker's mark, as well as to highlight many condition flaws. Very clean, fresh, bright and shiny in overall excellent to minty condition. No chips of any size, cracks of any size, crazing, stains, or silver/gray utensil marks. At most you will find a few spots with wear to the gold and perhaps a few scattered completely colorless surface scratches to the glaze that are only noticeable when holding the piece up to a direct source of light at just the right angle. These pieces were only ever displayed in an enclosed glass cabinet in a professionally-cleaned home.
We consider funky odors (cigarette smoke, mildew, etc) to be an important part of a condition report. Corndogcache is a 100% non-smoking environment, and we'll let you know if any of our vintage items smell like it (or anything else) from activities they may have been involved in before they came to us.