{"id":272,"date":"2021-01-03T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=272"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:18:53","slug":"on-the-tenth-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2021\/01\/03\/on-the-tenth-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"On the tenth day of Christmas, eBay brought to me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Genuine-Pre-Prohibition-034-King-Kotton-034-Korn-Bristol-VA-Whiskey-Shot-Glass-\/373392651083?item=373392651083&amp;ViewItem=&amp;nma=true&amp;si=rZ%252BWHuyYxCManZNL67T3BYxhUsw%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;nordt=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/kotton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" width=\"428\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/kotton.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/kotton-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 85vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s one that we haven&#8217;t seen on eBay before, although it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/midacore\/view_glass.php?sid=RWM184\">in the database<\/a>, the listing courtesy of the late Bob Mraz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the fanciest of pre-pro glasses, but the King Kotton Korn (abbreviated &#8220;KKK&#8221;; was this intentional, I wonder?) brand name was owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/midacore\/view_vendor.php?vid=TRI13924\">Heller &amp; Co<\/a>., who were based in <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=bristol+VA&amp;ia=web&amp;iaxm=about&amp;iax=images\">Bristol, VA<\/a>. right across the state line from Bristol. TN and who had branches throughout the Southern States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VA\/TN connection to this glass guaranteed that the final bid price was going to be high given the number of collectors interested in pre-pro collectibles from these two States, but even I was surprised by the auction outcome. The glass was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Genuine-Pre-Prohibition-034-King-Kotton-034-Korn-Bristol-VA-Whiskey-Shot-Glass-\/373392651083?item=373392651083&amp;ViewItem=&amp;nma=true&amp;si=rZ%252BWHuyYxCManZNL67T3BYxhUsw%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;nordt=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557\">listed for sale<\/a> by <em>tpe_asl<\/em> and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/bfl\/viewbids\/373392651083?item=373392651083&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2565\">sniped in the final seconds<\/a> with a final bid price of <strong>$277.72<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one that we haven&#8217;t seen on eBay before, although it is in the database, the listing courtesy of the late Bob Mraz. Not the fanciest of pre-pro glasses, but the King Kotton Korn (abbreviated &#8220;KKK&#8221;; was this intentional, I wonder?) brand name was owned Heller &amp; Co., who were based in Bristol, VA. right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2021\/01\/03\/on-the-tenth-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the tenth day of Christmas, eBay brought to me&#8230;&#8221;<\/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\/272"}],"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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}