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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 92690, member: 878&quot;]OK, if no one objects I’ll continue on this string with the item discussed earlier.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Updates.</p><p><br /></p><p>The item I found on eBay and was tempted to buy. To refresh memories............</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0059b3">&quot;I found the dam thing in 10 seconds. In my own personal files. I sold a duplicate on eBay 4 years ago.</span><span style="color: #000000">( Correction. 3 years and 3 months ago.)</span><span style="color: #0059b3"> His listing is auction.&nbsp; 3 days to go. Current price is $15. I had put mine up BIN only. Took 11 days to sell, at $425.00.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0059b3">The reason I could not find it anywhere is because, close your eyes Komo, it is very rare and does exist in one book only where the average collector never thinks to look.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0059b3"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0059b3">I ONLY bid through ESnipe. Helps a lot. Choose my price, set it and literally do not look until I&#039;m advised whether or not I won. QUESTION, How much? If I win, it goes back on eBay.&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p>No one here recommended a price. I did set a snipe of $141.99 with the intention of not keeping if I did win. Yes, it will go back on eBay with, perhaps an auction, but definitely with the usual sales pitch and <span style="color: #b30000">see which way the market went since 7/12/12</span> when mine sold for $395 plus $10 S&amp;H.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did win it. There were 26 bids. Not 26 bidders.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may recall I QUESTIONED the seller&#039;s veracity and, hoping to heck she is not a member here, I will add something else to this narrative. SHE HAD ANOTHER ITEM UP FOR SALE. A Westmoreland Dog covered dish. And I sniped that one, too.</p><p>1. Westmoreland first made that dog in the 1880s/90s. 2. DEFINITELY DISCONTINUED before 1920 and never reproduced. Why, we don’t know. </p><p>3. Westmoreland used inventory numbers on such pieces. As tops and/or bottoms wore down and new moulds were made the inventory numbers increased from 1 to 6. With this particular dog the seller claims that it has the number 1 under the lid AND a number 1 inside the base. THAT&#039;S LIKE FINDING THE VERY FIRST Model T convertible. (Well, not price wise. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can’t wait to see these two pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>My computer is still acting up a bit. Sorry, but to see the swan and dog you will have to open eBay and search for <b>141819351842&nbsp; and, separately 262126816380</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only book in which this swan will be found is Victorian Glass by Ruth Webb Lee, “Specialties Of The 19th Century.” See number 6 on plate 109. On page 309 she describes it as “Seldom found these days.” and that was published in 1944. Made in 1891 by Challinor Taylor in Tarentum, PA. C-T made a later base very different and, frankly, more attractive. But this base is the original and&nbsp; much scarcer than with the replacement base.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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