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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rclinftl, post: 4595862, member: 78249&quot;]ok - so here is the story - a good friend of mine is a realtor - she calls me and says HELP - 3 men gay men were living together - a couple who were advanced pottery collectors - and thier best friend - they have lived together for over 32 years - both guys in the couple passed within 6 months of each other and the 3rd inherited everything... the house is HUGE with 3 different buildings on the property and it was just too much for him alone so he has decided to sell and my realtor friend is his agent... every surface in the house was covered in pottery and she just told him he has to do something as she cant show the house that way.... it took me 3 seperate full days to box up all the pottery and get it out - he set the price to &quot;get rid of it&quot; at $2000 - I was obviously very content with the set price....</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t even tried to sell much of it - I have posted about a dozen pieces or so just to get my money back - I sold the Newcomb - I sold the teco for $345 - I sold the Haegar Geranium for $155 - I sold a rookwood for $245 - I sold a camark for $145 - I sold a grueby tile for $127 - I sold a carved UND pot for $175 - and I sold a Mosaic Tile for $79 - so I have already made all the money back plus made a $1000 and I have nearly all the pottery still... I have a LOT of middle of the line pottery like McCoy - Red Wing - Zanesville - Weller - Roseville etc. - and I still have some higher end pieces like Rookwood - Van Briggle - Moorcroft etc. - I believe i still have over 300 pieces of pottery.....</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a partner of 15 years who suddenly passed of pancreatic cancer - it was heartbreaking - his mother had a piece of Roseville that he loved - so I used to buy him Roseville for birthdays and such - I can;t bear to sell it so apparently I am a Roseville collector LOL - so I kept about 6 pieces of Roseville from the collection including the Futura Big Triangle Vase - the Futura Box vase - a low bowl in the Florentine pattern in which I already had a pair of gated vases to match - etc... I always thought I would stay single after that but 10 years ago I met my current partner who has the patience of a saint - I have our entire house covered in pottery and at least 40 boxes of pottery and not so much as a peep - (the guest bedroom is already filled to the ceiling in antiques and collectibles) I have owned several shops and was in 7 antique malls before the fall in 2008 - I am still trying to figure things out - the rents in antique malls down here is as high as having a shop - I honestly just don&#039;t know what to do with it all....</p><p><br /></p><p>for the record I am glass person by trade - I have dealt highend glass all my life - mostly American - Steuben (the old colored stuff) - Pairpoint -&nbsp; etc and before the fall I also did a lot with the elegant and eapg stuff which nobody cares about anymore.... </p><p><br /></p><p>sooooooo - thats my story - and I&#039;m sticking to it :O)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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