{"id":434,"date":"2023-12-26T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=434"},"modified":"2023-12-26T12:52:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:52:32","slug":"on-the-fifth-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me-the-crown-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2023\/12\/26\/on-the-fifth-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me-the-crown-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"On the fifth day of Christmas, eBay brought to me… the Crown Jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was the glass that achieved the highest sales price during the past couple of weeks and it’s a rare old beauty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was listed for sale<\/a> by miketaylor100<\/strong> with a start price of $29.99<\/strong>. It was soon bid up to around $49, but then sat there for a week with no further bidding activity. The auction finally closed with a volley of sniper shots<\/a> that drove it up to a final sale price of $259.55<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What made this a $260 glass? The Mette & Kanne Distilling Co<\/a>. were based St. Louis, MO. They listed in city directories from around 1893, and I would guess that this glass dates back to somewhere around there given that it’s acid etched and the design was a creation of George Truog<\/a> of the Maryland Glass Etching Works of Cumberland, MD. We know this because the glass is signed by the Master himself: see the tiny transparent “GT” signature to the right of the crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve seen the glass once before<\/a> – it was one of those that made up Ken Schwartz’ collection. There is a sister glass that advertises Carmen Kentucky Bourbon<\/a>, which I first logged into the database as a part of Paul Van Vactor’s collection. It’s also signed by Truog and is almost as rare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to the collector that snagged the Crown Jewels!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was the glass that achieved the highest sales price during the past couple of weeks and it’s a rare old beauty: It was listed for sale by miketaylor100 with a start price of $29.99. It was soon bid up to around $49, but then sat there for a week with no further bidding activity. … Continue reading “On the fifth day of Christmas, eBay brought to me… the Crown Jewels”<\/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\/434"}],"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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}