{"id":91,"date":"2019-12-27T01:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=91"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:32:12","slug":"hosting-hiccups-sotw-december-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2019\/12\/27\/hosting-hiccups-sotw-december-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting hiccups (SOTW December 27, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the beginning of the month, the server that www.pre-pro.com sits on had the silicon equivalent of a brain-fart and scrambled its filing system which, in technical terms, is very, VERY bad. Since I had been lead to believe that the site was backed up automatically every week, I wasn’t too worried about the fact that it would be offline for a few hours while it was being moved to a new server (many thanks to Bruce Silva, Jack Sullivan, and several others who pinged me to give me a head’s up that the site was down). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the site rose like a phoenix from the electronic embers, it appeared to be missing a few feathers and the timestamps all read 2014. A few frantic tech support calls later, it transpires that the site exceeds the auto-backup limit by several tens of gigabytes and had never been backed up, so it had been reset to the date when I first signed up with the hosting company. Urgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long story short, it’s taken a while to get things up and running again; apologies to all for the inconvenience. I reloaded all prior “New and Shotworthy<\/em>” posts today so they all have today’s date (I’ll try and fix that), but they are ordered by original posting date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So. eBay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past 28 days, at least 186 glasses listed, of which 108 went unsold. The average price of those that did sell was $43.94<\/strong>. The numbers are perhaps misleading in that they obscure the fact that good glasses are flying off the e-shelves as fast as they can be stocked, and I’m not sure that this is purely a Christmas-related blip in the data stream. Coming months will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more interesting offerings included a Hayner Harvest Home<\/a>, which is the rarest and most valuable of the known etched Hayner variants. It has sold for up to $350 in recent years. diggerdaveb<\/em> picked this one up in an auction lot from Glass Works Auctions<\/a>; it sold in a buy-it-now for $195.00 <\/strong>after sitting for several months in his webstore; I’m surprised no-one picked it up earlier given that it is also a George Truog<\/a> original design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Los Angeles Brewing Company gave away a number of sampler glasses that are a little<\/em> too big to be considered a shot and a little<\/em> too small to be considered a beer, all of them featuring historically-significant California Jesuit missions. There were at least two series of mission glasses. The glass below is from one of the rarer series and fetched a respectable $224.50<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ll finish this update with two Jack Daniel glasses. JD has a world-wide following and I regularly get emails requesting glasses from the pre-Prohibition era. There are few to be had, however, and the price on any original JD glass is creeping forever upward. They sell for nose-bleed prices that casual pre-pro collectors might consider insane, but I honestly believe that the sky is the limit when it comes to valuations on anything JD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is a plain-Jane, heavy, one-shot paneled glass from Hopkinsville, KY. It was listed with an opening bid of $500<\/strong> by buzzardroost07<\/em> and sold a week later to 2***a<\/em> without a contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n