Published in 1965, it contains detailed descriptions of historical and cultural fashion along with renditions of small-scale garment patterns that she meticulously drafted from various museum collections. One of her subsequent accomplishments, however, was the completion of a book entitled "History of Costume", a college textbook describing the evolution of fashion from 3000 B.C. Unfortunately, her Yugoslavian research failed to result in a full length publication because of the prohibitive costs of publishing and destruction of some of the color plates during the war years. She considered the Balkan countries a valuable source for studying ethnic dress in its original context and wanted to provide her students with primary source material for the study of modern costume construction and fine craftsmanship. As part of her studies of non-Western folk dress and embroidery technique, she traveled extensively in Europe, collecting original ethnic costumes, textile and embroidery examples.
Engaged in intensive research on clothing and historic costume, she supervised work on the Textile Costume Study Collection housed in the Home Economics Department. She joined the University faculty in 1927. Although the original items are available for viewing by appointment through the Special Collections Division, providing web access increases the visibility and use of such unique resources.īlanche Payne taught historic costume and apparel design in the School of Home Economics at the University of Washington. The 417 digital images cover many stylistic periods in French and English history. A project was undertaken by the Digital Initiatives Program to digitize and provide online access to selections from this collection.
They are primarily hand-colored engravings although some of the plates after 1885 are colored lithographs. Many of these plates are from some of the leading French, British, American, and other continental fashion journals of the 19th century and early 20th century: Belle assemblée Le bon ton Le Follet, courrier des salons Journal des dames and des modes Godey's lady's book and magazine, and others. A series of nine plates from the popular Mother’s Day series dated 2000-2008 sold for $70.The original fashion plates collected by Blanche Payne and others have been cataloged and carefully stored for preservation purposes in archival housing. I also sold a series of five Christmas plates from the 1930s for $140 and five Christmas plates from the 1950s for $70. Major Manufacturers Are Worth Moreīing & Grondahl – Plates from the 1800s to 1920s can sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars as noted above. Most collector plates from major manufacturers feature very detailed back stamps and usually include the year the plate was made. According to Terry Kovel, plates made after 1980 usually have no monetary value. Date of ManufactureĪntique Trader notes that collector plates from the 1920s are some of the most valuable but only if they are in perfect condition. Look for these characteristics if you think you might have a treasure or two in your collection. Factors Affecting the Value of PlatesĪccording to Antique Trader, some collector plates are regaining their value, in part because baby boomers are purchasing them for sentimental reasons.
This plate held it’s value because it was the first plate in Bing & Grondahl’s series of Christmas plates. I listed it and it sold for $2,500 (pictured). I started researching a collection of plates a client gave me to sell and noticed that a Bing & Grondahl plate dated 1895 titled ‘Behind the Frozen Window’ was selling on eBay for thousands of dollars.
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