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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe2007, post: 1111972, member: 1262&quot;]It was like that in the mid-2000s here in mid-Ohio when I first started going to auctions with my parents. There was one older couple (in their 70&#039;s) in particular that had a massive collection of art pottery, glass, and Hummel&#039;s among other things. They bought a good 60-70% of the pieces that came up at auction, actively attended every sale in a 100 mile radius, and paid very strong money for any &quot;better&quot; pattern and huge money for Rookwood. It was entirely pointless to even try to bid against them -- if they wanted it, it was going to be theirs. I was told by local antique dealers, other attendees that the he was a retired farmer who also owned a small business that made him wealthy and that he and his wife had been collecting for decades. They apparently had in excess of 1000 pieces of Roseville Pottery plus significant amounts of Rookwood, Weller, and Hull pottery. I always have wondered what happened to this collection after they stopped attending estate auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was also an older woman who attended several auctions I was at in about 2006 who bought up every &quot;better&quot; pattern piece of Roseville that she could find for huge money. My father who collected Roseville at the time ran the bid up to &quot;crazy&quot; levels since it was apparent to everyone that she wasn&#039;t going to stop until she had the item. A few months later we saw the exact same pieces go up on eBay for double the going rate. We called her the &quot;Wadsworth Lady&quot; since she was from the Akron, OH suburb of Wadsworth and apparently had a wad of cash to blow. She ended up not selling more than a piece or two on the Bay although she kept relisting them for several years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also met a few super-collectors of Hull Pottery during that timeframe before the pottery market melted down. One older gentleman claimed to have 500 pieces of Hull including many pieces of Bow-Knot which was super expensive and sought after at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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