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Great source for egg poacher cups at a reasonable price.  Won’t last long.

While I see exorbitant prices on new old stock items on eBay all the time, it is hard to tell whether or not people are actually willing to pay a really high amount for the privilege of experiencing new Revere Ware, especially because many of the items are from the 80’s and 90’s, when the quality of items was sub-standard, not exactly the glory days of Revere Ware.

So it is interesting to see an auction for a new in box tea kettle; an auction tells us what someone is actually willing to pay.

A clue to the age of the kettle can be found on the bottom of the box.

I take that as 1975.  While Revere Ware might have started making the tea kettles with a thinner copper layer on the bottom after 1968, like they did with their copper bottom cookware, I’ve never found much difference in the pre and post-1968 era kettles, so 1975 is as good as any year in my mind.

Given the rarity of new Revere Ware kettles these days, $114.5 seems like a reasonable price to me.  But that’s about 10 times what is originally sold for. 🙂

If you tend to wax nostalgic (like me) you’ll appreciate this brand new vintage electric coffee pot, I’m guessing from the 1970’s.  Imaging unboxing this and making a nice cup of percolated coffee like you just brought it home from Sears.

We get a fair amount of inquiries for the Revere copper cleaner.  As far as we know it has been out of production for some time now, and isn’t available.

If you really really love it more than any other copper cleaner, there is one package available on eBay right now.

I love the use of this stove to show cookware for sale.  And that second picture, what a treasure. 🙂

It’s instructive to look back on October of 2012, not quite 10 years ago when I posted that more and more Revere Ware was appearing on eBay.

As you can see, at that time, I was talking about around 1,500 listing.  Wow, that 10 years has done.  Here is the entire graph from 2009 to the end of 2021.

As of today, there are over 15,000 listings today, 10 times more.  In fact, eBay doesn’t even tell us exactly how many there are anymore:

There are 4,200 listings for just sauce pans!

1,500, how quaint! 🙂

You don’t often see vintage items that are new old stock (new never used).  This one is a 12″ skillet from before 1968, for a great starting bid of only $68.85.

We’ve seen the amount of Revere Ware listed on eBay grow significantly over the last couple of years, amounting to over 16,000 items listed at any given time right now.

If you are considering replacing some damaged pieces, or completing your vintage Revere Ware collection, the availability of used Revere Ware right now is better than I’ve ever seen it.

At the prices they are typically listed for, I’m not one to go in for the fairly rare (and sometimes just painted) colored Revere Ware Bakelite handles and knobs that appear on eBay several times a year.  But I like the color of this latest set, and the price is pretty reasonable given the rarity.

My best guess on the size would be equivalent to our medium or large handles.