Re: [gardeners] There's no stove like an old stove . . .
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:00:27 -0700
At 10:52 AM 1/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Yepper, those are the ones! It always surprises me the things we have or
>have had
>that end up being a collectors item or antique. I have a beautiful
>carnival glass
>pitcher that my Granny gave me. It has dahlia's on 3 sides, and then the
>handle on
>the 4th side. I picked up a carnival glass book at Bookmans the other
>day, and
>after much searching found that pitcher. It was appraised at $950! Dang,
>dang,
>dang...that sure shocked me. What's funnier, is, I would never sell
>it. It's from
>my Granny, and that makes it special, beyond what it is worth. I do love
>it when I
>get treasures like that though :)
>
>Alan
Yep, and that was probably just pressed glass. Cheap when it was new.
Well, imagine how many of them were broken to make yours so
valuable...Margaret L