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More Lotton glass photos posted....
warners:
--- Quote from: "paradisetrader" ---Wow that blows my mind...........something so beautiful from old bottles
When I am able I would want one of these as my first Lotton
Were many made ?
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Well, every once in a while you'll see one pop up on Ebay...and invariably the seller has no idea how rare their piece is or what it's called. But they are fairly rare....Charles only made them in 1974 and 1975, so there aren't that many to be had. Whenever I see one come up for sale, I try for it. I only own that one piece in my collection. A fellow collector just stumbled across one, almost literally...he was fleshing out a google search on "Lotton" and found a site that had one that they wanted $600 for...and it is over 10 inches tall, which is very large for this type of glass! He ended up getting it for $540. I think it would have been a good deal at twice that price. And the stranger thing is that the collector (a recent friend of mine) didn't know what it was when he bought it. He sent me photos of the piece, telling me about another Lotton piece that be bought because he liked the shape and the colors were interesting. Of course I told him he'd hit a home run on the piece!
Warner
Anne:
Warner your info is fascinating. I love the beer bottle and magnesia vase. This is, to me, the ultimate in recycling glass.
warners:
--- Quote from: "Anne" ---Warner your info is fascinating. I love the beer bottle and magnesia vase. This is, to me, the ultimate in recycling glass.
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Thanks Anne! The Persian Inlay pieces are rare, and should be quite collectible. Here is a photo of one of the types of pieces that I really like the look of, personally. This is certainly of Tiffany quality, and in fact in the early days of Lotton, even good auction houses were being fooled by some unscrupulous dealers looking to make a quick buck. What they'd do is polish Charles's signature off the bottom of one of his pieces and put a phony LCT signature on it. I'm sure there are some Tiffany collectors that unknowingly have an early Lotton piece with a fake LCT signature on it in their collection. When this started happening more and more frequently, the collector who's collection I bought (Ken Catlin) suggested to Charles that maybe he should sign his pieces on the side towards the bottom, which he did for quite some time to prevent his pieces from being sold as Tiffany. Here's one of the best examples of a pattern that he calls "Metallic Blue Tapestry". For those that have the Lotton book, this is piece number 443 in the book. Charles crafted this piece in 1978 - just look at the great colors on this piece!
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Warner
warners:
Here is a nice example of an early (1976) Charles Lotton piece in mandarin red with king tut decoration. It's a smaller piece (about 5" tall); I really like this one....took a bit of work forming it I'm sure.
Warner
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Anne:
--- Quote from: "warners" --- http://tinypic.com/6nw2lc.jpg
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Wow! This is gorgeous! I'd be thrilled to have this in my collection for sure. :)
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