It feels and sounds like porcelain. It makes that lovely porcelain sound. It belonged to my dear Mother in law and she collected lot's of asian pieces. When I say "lots of asian" I can tell you everything they owned is asian or asian inspired and (Lord rest her soul) I've been selling this stuff for months! As for the 4.99 starting bid, from my experience on ebay I have learned: perceived value and actual value are two different birds. We may perceive something as valueable, ie, the age, the quality, the make, but ultimately the market will determine it's current value, BUT only if it's listed correctly! In the world of ebay, listing is everything!!

A voice of dissension here. How will the curtains hang for the majority of time - open or closed? Personally, I prefer the curtains mounted high when they are open - but when they are closed, I prefer that the transoms remain exposed. An alternative may be to have a divided privacy underpanel on an invisible track traversing the entire length of the wall between the top and bottom windows, which can then be concealed beneath the decorative tall curtains during the day. I would also relocate those two grillwork panels. They are attractive but clutter the wall space in an otherwise clean and simple decor.

The bright side is hard to find without some good visuals. Do you want a beautiful 5star range although petite or a giant large open fire to cook your food on the cowboy way???? My next question is vital to the answer, Which would you rather have for dessert? Or maybe this.... So back to the size of your range and what it can do. The size and functionality questions. Beautiful gorgoeus tiny but makes great cakes FiveStar ????? Or the Cowboy way??????? Open giant fire pit is not a great way to make a cake. Hands down, I vote for the Tiny but beautiful 5star range you have in your kitchen. You made an excellent choice. ~boxerpups who suddenly finds herself craving cake.

I can understand why bottle return services have been suspended- it's a dirty and gross scene in the best of times, and worse right now. Frequently, return machines are spaced too close for social distancing. They are not sanitized, pretty much ever. Also, many returns areas in stores are unsupervised unless called on for a cleanup, and many stores don't want to risk people congregating to do/wait on returns. Spills happen with frequency from the customers, and that can be a hazard- someones backwash sticky to walk on till an employee can go mop it up, ew. If people don't/can't do a return, they are often slobs about disposal or not in the open areas. Leaving containers behind, boxes, bags. Kind of as gross as the folks leaving their masks and gloves laying around in parking lots and shopping baskets for the employees to clean up after. A lot of customer areas are nicely kept, but many are left lower on the list of things to do compared to other tasks for the employee to complete. Inside the bottle room inside big stores is just as icky. Always the stench of rotted beer and soda, floors need regular mopping for the sticky oozes. And when those bins get filled, they need to be pallet-jacked off, sometimes across customer spaces to where ever on the back dock the storage truck is. Pallet crates are stored on the truck till it's full, then it gets picked up by the recycling company. Typically, the employees that clean up after our bottle returns are also the ones that are stocking our shelves, and sometimes doing cashier or bagging duties depending on the store. And while handwashing is still an option, a lot of stores don't have the PPE's like gloves to handle items that have had our spit on them then mixed in with other containers to be dropped in non-sanitized machines. Many stores don't have good handwashing stations for the customers either, and many rely on hand sanitizer stations- which are out of sanitizer right now. And a lot of customers don't bother washing or sanitizing after a bottle drop off, then go on to do shopping- ew. I've never seen a customer sanitize between finishing the return and taking their return reciept, which they then stuff into the wallet/purse/pocket- then if they clean up before shopping, pull that receipt back out and hand it to the cashier or desk attendant. If you think having a few cases or bags are icky in your garage... imagine that much more of pallet cases on a truck, which usually isn't completely secure from rodents- because dock seals are imperfect. Sitting for a while attached to the back of your store, because the recycling pickups have been suspended. Because bottle returns are a nicety, not a necessity. I bet some garbage recycling services are still running because even if you live in a clean your recycling area, enough people don't that it could still become a potential food garbage hazard. In a lot of ways, recycling is a nicety too- the stuff could go into the regular garbage, but many of us like to recycle. And some companies can profit a bit. Regular garbage service is being a bit more strained at this time too- a lot of people being home a lot more all of a sudden fills up the bin to go out to the curb more quickly. Sometimes people get careless, and leave out an overstuffed bin, or leaving out that extra bag or two for pickup that the garbage person then has to handle instead of letting the truck keep the distance... or perhaps their household has been sick and now their usual garbage is now a bit more bio hazardous than usual. Some garbage services serve residential and municipality garbage- and a lot of people are being icky about public trash disposal or not. This is a particular problem in places like parks and other more usually more attended public places. As in people run out of personal garbage disposal, and choose to dump it elsewhere instead of hauling it properly or keeping it for a bit. Some places are needing to start their spring services of parks and open lands too... All of that is stacking up to garbage companies having a lot to do while also having employees not able to come in, or now having to figure out how to safely have 2 people in a truck at this time. A lot of places still do that. And out of curiosity... what kind of yard waste do some folks have that rats didn't bother it all winter, but now there's a possibility of a rat explosion if it isn't removed now? Usually rats are attracted to human food garbage rather than things like old leaves and spring pulled weeds.