{"id":69,"date":"2019-07-07T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=69"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:26:30","slug":"swings-and-roundabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2019\/07\/07\/swings-and-roundabouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Swings and roundabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Suddenly there’s a lot to talk about and time has a way of slipping by, so I’m switching to mini-post mode in the hopes of catching up in between a seemingly endless series of work deadlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last SOTW, I was reflecting on the fact that there has been a seismic shift in shot-glass values, with traditionally high-end glasses selling for about half of their previous hammer prices, whereas the solid lower-end glasses have been steadily building value in recent months. I was using Russ Beem’s glasses as a case in point, and his latest (and seemingly his last?) set of glasses to appear on eBay further underscore this continuing trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image of the Old Maid glass above is a little out of focus, but gives you a reasonably good sense of its appeal. This is a text-only glass, so that places its value in the $10-$30 range. It’s from the Orene Parker Co. of Covington, KY<\/a>., a company that gave us one of the classic pre-pro glasses<\/a> that every serious collector should own (they’re common and easy to come by – get one if you don’t already own one, and hold out for mint condition). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve seen examples of the rarer glass above sell 10 times since 2001, with the price fetched averaging around $25, which would be consistent with a text-only glass valuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russ picked this glass up for $23.19 back in April, 2013 and started this listing<\/a> at $25, which was perfectly on target. It sold a week later for an eye-popping $127.50<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t have one of these glasses in the display case already, you need to find one, because it’s probably in the top 1% in terms of desirability. It’s a deceptive glass – it really doesn’t look like it’s worth bidding on when it pops up on eBay, but once you see one in vitro<\/em> (so to speak), you’ll come to appreciate the boldness of the font and the way it captures the essence of pre-pro glass collecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suddenly there’s a lot to talk about and time has a way of slipping by, so I’m switching to mini-post mode in the hopes of catching up in between a seemingly endless series of work deadlines. In the last SOTW, I was reflecting on the fact that there has been a seismic shift in shot-glass … Continue reading “Swings and roundabouts”<\/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\/69"}],"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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}