{"id":472,"date":"2024-01-05T21:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=472"},"modified":"2024-01-05T21:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:27:57","slug":"on-the-eleventh-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me-a-collection-of-minty-wi-area-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2024\/01\/05\/on-the-eleventh-day-of-christmas-ebay-brought-to-me-a-collection-of-minty-wi-area-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"On the eleventh day of Christmas, eBay brought to me… a collection of minty WI area glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

eBay seller brew508<\/a><\/strong> has been around since the auction site’s inception and I’ve brought a couple of glasses from him over the years. In recent weeks, he’s been listing glasses that are notable for their condition and also for a “Best Offer<\/em>” option, something that is increasingly gaining favor and that I’ve taken advantage of many times to get a better deal on an eBay glass. Sometimes sellers accept, sometimes they don’t, but it’s always worth a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The glass with the highest opening bid price ($150) was a Badger Club Whiskey<\/a> from John Thielen of Oshkosh, WI<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’d be correct in raising one or both eyebrows over this auction given that it’s essentially just a plain text glass with panels and a partial gold rim. It is <\/em>on the rare side – I’ve logged just 6 of them into the sales database<\/a> over the years. The first of these (below) was back in February 2004 and was won by texas1869<\/strong> for just $26.99. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess texas1869<\/strong> didn’t like what he saw on arrival, because it relisted with a note that “it had a crack” in April. Yours truly ended up buying it for $20<\/strong> and, on pulling it out of the box, a large chunk amounting to about 10% of the wall fell out onto the benchtop. The “crack” formed a giant U-shape that ran from rim to rim and the chunk of wall that it described had been (weakly) held in place with glue. Caveat emptor, as always. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still have the glass even though I’ve since replaced it with a much less “cracked” example. The cracked version sits alongside a really neat sign I picked up off eBay that features the same glass alongside a bottle of the product. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that the pre-pro glasses we treasure so much actually show up featured with other advertising giveaways, so the sign is a much treasured addition to the collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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brew508’s<\/strong> glass<\/a> sold following submission of a “Best Offer<\/em>“, price undisclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

brew508<\/strong> also listed a couple of Old Tom Bentons a couple of months apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opening bid for both was $55<\/strong>, which was tempting given how clean the glasses were. Again, plain-text glasses, and from David Wise & Co<\/a>. of Chicago, IL (not a collector’s favorite city), but an attractive design none the less with a nice gold rim. Both sold following submission of “Best Offers<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, brew508<\/strong> appears to have lucked out with a cache of Fuldner glasses<\/a>. It was one of these that got me hooked on pre-pro glass collecting back in the day (I found mine at a Milwaukee bottle show back in 1989 – the seller was asking $22 for it but took $16; it’s still in one of my top 2% display cases). It’s a classic pre-pro design and I adapted the Fuldner trademark design<\/a> to serve as the banner on the pre-pro.com home page<\/a>. For reasons that are not clear to me, they fail to attract much attention when they show up on eBay; the most I’ve seen one sell for is $76 and change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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brew508 <\/strong>has been listing them for a $45 opening bid with a “Best Offer<\/em>” option. Three have sold so far, the most recent being a couple of days ago<\/a>. If he has more and you don’t have one in the collection already, you should grab one – it will outlive most others you may acquire for the display case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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eBay seller brew508 has been around since the auction site’s inception and I’ve brought a couple of glasses from him over the years. In recent weeks, he’s been listing glasses that are notable for their condition and also for a “Best Offer” option, something that is increasingly gaining favor and that I’ve taken advantage of … Continue reading “On the eleventh day of Christmas, eBay brought to me… a collection of minty WI area glasses”<\/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\/472"}],"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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}