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Passover Seder Plates produced plates available.
Today, collectors seek antique and vintage Seder plates as
Make Your Heart Kvell both religious artifacts and as beautiful, decorative plates to
hang on walls. There is no average price or range for Seder
By Larry LeMasters plates, so it is truly a “buy what you like” market since you many
never be able to resell the plates.
LeMasters’ Antique News Service Some famous companies have manufactured Seder
plates, including Ridgways England and Limoges
Seder plates are used during the Passover France; however, some collectors prefer hand-
Seder, which was Jesus’ Last Supper, and hold made Seder plates, especially ceramic or metal
symbolic Jewish foods, making these plates ones that were made for a particular family,
interesting collectibles. The traditional making the plate one-of-a-kind.
items on the Seder Plate are Maror — bitter Regardless of why you collect Seder
herbs, Chazeret -- a second bitter herb, plates, gazing at your collection, recalling
Charoset — a mixture of chopped nuts, Moses and his epic encounter with God,
grated apples, cinnamon, and sweet will make your heart kvell.
red wine, Karpas — a vegetable, Z’roa Yes, I could tell you what kvell means,
— a lamb shankbone, and Beitzah — a but then you would not get to look it up
roasted hard-boiled egg. Jewish people for yourself. It’s Yiddish.
celebrate Passover as a commemoration
of Moses freeing the Israelite SHOWN: Top- Vintage,
slaves in Egypt and the Israelites large and heavy Andreas
40 year wandering to find the Meyer hand-made glass
Promised Land. Passover Jewish Passover Seder
Seder Meals have been plate; $150.
celebrated for about Far L- Vintage, porcelain
3,500 years in one form Passover Seder plate
or another. made in Italy: $180.
No one knows Bottom Center- Vintage
when collectible Seder plate made of
brass and enamel; $120.
Seder plates came into
existence, but they have R- Rare, 1923 Seder
late manufactured by
certainly been around since “Ridgways England;”
the mid-1800s when the $1,600.
Industrial Revolution hit
England, making mass-