{"id":28,"date":"2019-03-18T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=28"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:31:43","slug":"oso-wtf-sotw-march-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2019\/03\/18\/oso-wtf-sotw-march-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"O!SO WTF?! (SOTW, March 18, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was a time not so very long ago that the O!SO GOOD shot glass that graces virtually all pre-pro collections was in such low demand that they barely fetched $5 at auction. Indeed, I distinctly remember Paul Van Vactor (better know as stilz<\/a><\/em> on eBay) observing that he had at least 8 on hand and no idea what to do with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O!HOW times have changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

O!SO GOOD glasses are one of the most common<\/a> and readily-available pre-pro shot glass, second only to the Hayner Distilling Co. cylinder. I’ve logged 580 of them into the sales database<\/a> since its inception. It usually comes with a gilded rim. There are a few glasses without a gold rim in circulation, but a closer look at the rim using a loupe confirms traces of gold, meaning that the gilding has worn off. There are two known (and quite rare) variants. The easier to find of them has a slightly different monogram<\/a> (note the solid “J”) and text font, whereas the other has interior panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the past few years, interest in O!SO GOODs has increased exponentially, presumably coinciding with and prompted by the resurrection of the J. Rieger & Co. brand in the guise of the Rieger Restaurant<\/a> and the Rieger Distillery<\/a>, both of whom claim family connections to the original company. The idea that someone might engage in a bidding war that ultimately resulted in a hammer price of $76 for one of these glasses would have seemed ridiculous just a few years ago, but here’s the evidence: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The glass above was listed on eBay<\/a> by glomannd<\/em> with a starting price of $9.95, closing on March 13 at $76 with new bidder l***2<\/em> in pole position. Yikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

jeffstateglass<\/em> of Western Whiskey Bottles fame jumped in with a coat-tails bin<\/a> (buy-it-now) that sold 4 days later for $55:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old timers will be feeling light-headed and in dire need of a Rieger’s-on-the-rocks after all this excitement, but, hang on to your hats girls, this latest offering<\/a> still has two days to go. It’s in fence post condition (as in, good only for putting on the fence post and using for target practice) but it’s already at $76 with l***2<\/em> in the lead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watch this space for the outcome…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you that are interested, this past 4 weeks saw 269 pre-pro glass auctions close on eBay. 158 auctions closed without a bidder. The average price of glasses that sold was $40.68<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: The O!SO GOOD shown above finally closed at closed at $76<\/strong>, with l***2<\/em> being the winner and i***a<\/em> in second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time not so very long ago that the O!SO GOOD shot glass that graces virtually all pre-pro collections was in such low demand that they barely fetched $5 at auction. Indeed, I distinctly remember Paul Van Vactor (better know as stilz on eBay) observing that he had at least 8 on hand … Continue reading “O!SO WTF?! (SOTW, March 18, 2019)”<\/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\/28"}],"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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}