Featured Buying glass for fun and profit.....

if you invest a dime for a banana and put it on the stand...........

if I could buy banana's at ten cents each........screw the glass, I'd open a fruit store !!
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I run my unsolds back through auction. The problem here is that glass is sold by the lot and I always seem to end up with one piece I want and four I really didn't. I try to sell the pieces I didn't want to pay for the one I keep. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

 

I would add that I noticed 70's glassware tumblers in avocado and that golden tone seem to be doing ok right now. I think people want the glasses their parents had at the table. Just a thought.

 

Or grandparents. Stage them with a 70s tablecloth? For the British things, Whitefriars glass might work and might fall flat. Either it's too far out of market to sell for much, or so far out that it's exotic and a must-grab. Probably the former.

 

In the U.K., what sells well is good quality stylish or quirky coloured glass, or if clear, that with interesting shapes. Chribska, for example. Good clean lines statement stuff.

 

I do quite well on ebay with tall viking swung vases(2ft).Especially in the bittersweet color. But they are a huge pain to ship! Fortunately I have a husband who builds my boxes for me. I also do well with Ajka crystal, and the colored waterford. But, the colored Waterford is hard to come by.

 

I had to google the Ajka. Looks like some NICE stuff!

 

Rant: went to my first tag sale in months and it was a bust. They had what looked like 3 lovely EAPG open compotes. When I saw them, I discovered that they are reproductions. Also, a gorgeous B&G handled cake plate -- with a huge rim chip. Didn't show on the front but still, huge. They wanted $18 for it, no extra charge for the chip. Some lady bought it. I suppose she just saw the gorgeous while I saw the chip, lol.

 

Could have bought a small bottle with stopper and a pitcher at an estate sale today. At first I thought...shoulda bought that. Then I realized that it had probably been Blenko, and I would have been able to flip it for about what they were charging. Phew.

 

I, too, had to search this to take a look. I would have taken it to be generic Bohemian/Czech. Is it permanently marked somehow?

 

Found my own answer....

 

As I recall, Ajka makes/made a lot of those cut to clear goblets/hocks that were not signed. I believe it was because they made them for other companies to sell under their brand. One of the eastern European companies (and maybe Ajka) made cut to clear in colors for Waterford. They didn't make any of what they offered themselves. I always bought that glassware even when not signed and it sold well. But take care, there's a lot of "cut to clear" that is not a thin layer of glass but actually a stain. I could tell the difference if I could handle it because the quality was just not the same.

 

I was thinking about you at the disappointing tag sale I went to yesterday (they had bupkus!). They had a large fruit bowl with fake fruit in it. One was a small banana that was heavy and I think was pottery. Even that banana cost more than 10 cents. They wanted $24 for a lot of 5 pieces that was rather poor quality. The bowl was priced separately. The bowl was very nice but it was an Imperial Glass repro, not what I was after.

 

Pam the sugared fake fruit and the sequined fake fruit seem to have somewhat of a following still. Prices at sales have gotten crazy.

 

It’s easier if you know the patterns, and I always thump the glass. If it has that beautiful crystal ring then it’s good. There is lots of cut to clear glass and other imposters out there.

 

I passed by a set of 16 Dorothy Thorpe Roly Poly glasses this week. I see on ebay that they still sell but not at the kind of prices that they used to. Our Goodwill prices every non-tagged glassware at $1.99 per piece and without color codes so they never go down . Makes buying a lot of things that I might buy otherwise cost prohibitive. I have talked with the staff and they say it is out of their hands, as it comes from the regional office. They are also not allowed to bundle sets together at one price .

As the stuff doesn't sell, it gets pulled and sent back to the regional hub where it is re-sorted for recycling or bin sales there. The regional hub is over an hour away from me so I have never been to their bin sales. One dealer I know says that they are worth attending. Just seems like a terribly inefficient way of moving merchandise. It also ends up selling a lot of things at a discount that might have brought better money if priced correctly.

On the other hand, we have 2 local thrift stores that price all non-tagged glassware at 25 cents. I have found some great bargains there over the years. They do bundle sets but sometimes over-price them if they think they might be good. The prices will go down or they will bargain with you if something has gone unsold over a week.

 

Brad we have a thrift shop not too far away that won't bundle glassware either.
I saw some Culver glass awhile back, they wanted $9.95 per glass. Too rich for my blood.

I have sold some of those DT roly poly glasses as sets or singles for people who need replacements. But I think that trend faded quite a bit. I noticed barware sells more near holiday time.

It is definitely getting harder and harder to figure out what glass sells anymore.

 

Avocado green and harvest gold are 2 of the worst colours of the '70s legacy. I once babysat for a family back in the 70s. In the kitchen one wall was painted avocado green and then right next to it the other wall was painted tangerine orange. Blecch!

 

I agree they are not my cup of tea either @kentworld
I think we had a harvest gold appliance and the wall paper OMG, it was totally groovy ugly.
BUT people want what they parents had. And many of those glasses hold up better than what you can buy today.

 

My mom had avacado green appliances, Spanish-ish pecan cabinets, and carpet that looked a bit like Spanish tile in her kitchen. The table was a huge wrought iron based smoked glass affair with plastic tall-backed Spanish chairs. The walls were pale yellow with one wood paneled accent wall. She definitely had those green bumpy glasses. The kitchen was quite stylish for its time. She got rid of everything but the cabinets in the 90s. They didn't scream 70s as much once everything else was changed.

Guess they are Anchor Hocking, Lido Milano....