{"id":16,"date":"2019-03-03T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=16"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:24:13","slug":"a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2019\/03\/03\/a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"A new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once upon a time, many, many<\/em>, moons ago, I wrote a periodic feature called Shot of The Week<\/a>. For various reasons (mainly to do with time), I stopped adding to the SOTW archives back in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much has happened within the pre-pro collecting community since that time. Many collectors cashed in their collections and dropped off eBay. Other sold off their collections, then rebuilt them, then sold them off again, and are yet again rebuilding. Several prominent collectors died, including Bob Mraz, Roger Roy, and Ralph Van Brocklin, all of whom left gaping holes in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pre-pro collecting world continues to spin on its axis, however, and many new collectors feature regularly in eBay bidding wars. Since eBay reduces bidder identities to a series of forgettable letters and asterisks, it’s difficult to follow or report on the action in any meaning way. l***c<\/em> really does not have quite the same cach\u00e9 as does bluroc<\/em>, once a familiar name on eBay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay continues to showcase a seemingly never-ending bounty of old and rare pre-pro glass however, and there is still a place for a forum such as this to showcase it. I have not used blogging software before so it will take some time to get New and Shotworthy<\/em> fully functional (we need a way for readers to upload images, for example), but here’s a new beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you interested in such things, 306<\/strong> pre-pro glasses appeared for auction on eBay over the past month. 160<\/strong> of those went unsold; the average price of glasses that did sell was $45.06<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

oldwhiskey
(s***s<\/em> on eBay)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once upon a time, many, many, moons ago, I wrote a periodic feature called Shot of The Week. For various reasons (mainly to do with time), I stopped adding to the SOTW archives back in 2014. Much has happened within the pre-pro collecting community since that time. Many collectors cashed in their collections and dropped … Continue reading “A new beginning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}