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This vase brings $217.50 with virtually no description, bidders names are private.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10034&item=4368282 436
This vase brings $52.00 with a better description, bidders names are private.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=992&item=730938504 5&rd=1
However, the seller relists only 5 days later, bidders names still private.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=992&item=731239994 3&rd=1
Here is another auction for the same vase with no bids and a $9.99 start:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22657&item=4370517 629&rd=1
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proves my point about how poor pictures can bring more money
I quit fussing over pics and descriptions a long long time ago, specifically for this reason.
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The seller in #2 and #3 has terrible feedback which may have kept the bidding down.
All three vases look like fakes from Romania.
Real Galle vases of this type go for $6,000 ond up.
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I think there is a bit of psychology going on here too. If you were to see that vase in one of those new, artsy-craftsy type places with a lot of other made-last-week-in-China antiques you wouldn't look twice at it. But if you were to find it buried in a box in the basement of a junky second-hand store you might think "Well, maybe......?" I think that first auction gives the feel of (or tries to give the feel of) maybe this guy doesn't know what he has and you might get lucky.
I think most of us have seen "deals" on ebay that were either listed poorly or the seller just didn't know what they had.
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I was particularly impressed with the skill of the photographer who managed to take a photo of the bottom of the vase while managing through lighting to not show us what lettering if any existed on the vase bottom.
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Fred & Dotties specials!!
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Originally Posted by maybe
The seller in #2 and #3 has terrible feedback which may have kept the bidding down.
All three vases look like fakes from Romania.
Real Galle vases of this type go for $6,000 ond up.
it's not absolutely necessary to say fakes and Romania - the reason: the Romanian artists doing Galle, Daum, Muller, Schneider glass style/type and replicas objects will in most cases mark the objects with TIP symbol so you can know that it is not an original. however, it is very easy for some people to remove that symbol and .... I personally know about a Schneider replica lamp which was sold on Ebay as an original but I also know that this seller will never work again with the Romanian company which trusted him. business is business and if you are an honest person/business, well, that means principles.
many collectors will say: why is Romania allowed to do Galle glass, for example. the problem is more complex than that. first, you should ask: is there any law not allowing you to use Galle's signatures ? second: is there any law not allowing you to use the same technique ? and third, who discovered how cameo glass was made and if for example E. Galle was the one, why Daum, Muller, Legras, Schneider were copying his technique and now it can not be done ?
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regards
mchl, You seem to offer great advice on what is and what isn't true Galle glass, however, please conform to here's User Agreement and policy. Also, place your link in your signature line.
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All are gone bye bye...
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Originally Posted by Jasmine
All are gone bye bye...
That's probably because this thread was from a year ago.
Wonder how all the vases did?
Jill
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Ah I didn't notice that. I guess this was bumped by a spammer?????