{"id":447,"date":"2023-12-28T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=447"},"modified":"2023-12-28T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:44:05","slug":"on-the-seventh-day-of-christmas-ebay-shook-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2023\/12\/28\/on-the-seventh-day-of-christmas-ebay-shook-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"On the seventh day of Christmas, eBay shook me up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first week of December brought us this rare Conway’s Famous Shakeup glass<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It listed with a $49<\/strong> opening bid with a $129<\/strong> buy-it-now, which is a hefty price to ask of a new collector who may be unsure of the background or authenticity, so it ran without attracting a bidder for almost a week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t actually know much about the origins of this glass. It was given away by Henry E Dowd, of Toledo, OH<\/a>., about whom we know next to nothing. We know that he applied for a patent covering his name and his face (we can safely assume that it’s Henry’s face that appears on the glass) back in 1981, the patent listing as a “Medicinal Beverage.” Beyond that, I have no idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The glass shown above is clearly old. It’s a heavier glass and the label is acid-etched and, although unsigned, clearly the work of George Truog<\/a> of the Maryland Glass Etching Works of Cumberland, MD. I’ve seen this glass<\/a> twice now, so it’s a rare one and most likely early 1890’s. There’s a sister glass<\/a> that’s equally rare. Both are in the database<\/a>, but perhaps there’s another variant out there that we don’t know about (Toledo collectors please get in touch if you can provide more information).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The auction finally closed on December 8th<\/a> with a buy-it-now at the asking price, which is a bargain if you’re interested in the older pre-pro glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I was noodling around on the internet, I happened to notice that an “identical” glass was still listed on a Russian scammer site at 50% off — with 11 still in stock! Yay! Caveat emptor…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first week of December brought us this rare Conway’s Famous Shakeup glass: It listed with a $49 opening bid with a $129 buy-it-now, which is a hefty price to ask of a new collector who may be unsure of the background or authenticity, so it ran without attracting a bidder for almost a week. … Continue reading “On the seventh day of Christmas, eBay shook me up!”<\/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\/447"}],"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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}