You could be sitting on thousands of dollars if you have these old-school dishes stowed away in your kitchen cabinets

Fiesta Dinnerware

• Fiestaware is a dish style that was popular in the '4os and '50s.
• The individual plates and bowls can be bought or sold for roughly $40-50 each but a cake plate can go for up to $1600.
• The vintage items will have an inkstamp on the bottom that says "GENUINE fiesta," with Fiesta all lowercase.

We’re loving all things retro! Whether it’s grape salad, scalloped potatoes or lemon chiffon cake, it’s hard to get enough. The only thing that might make our most-shared vintage recipes even better is an authentic vintage Fiesta dish.

Fiestaware is known for its bright colors and solid design, plus it was in every kitchen of the ’40s and ’50s. It’s now “the most collected brand of china in the United States.” (There are people absolutely obsessed with it!) The real vintage Fiesta pieces can be spendy to get your hands on, but if you’re lucky, your mother (or grandmother) may have passed her set down to you.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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