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More Lotton glass photos posted....
warners:
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Wow! This is gorgeous! I'd be thrilled to have this in my collection for sure. :)
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I like those a lot, too! I have 4 like that in my collection....I think that one has the best colors of them all. Thanks for all of your encouragement Anne! I'll try to post a new photo of a Lotton piece each day. :D
Warner
Here is the photo for today. This is a close up photo of one of the Lava pieces. This is about 8" tall and is mauve or pinkish in color. I like the Lava vases with the "ripped top" like this one has.
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chopin-liszt:
:cry::cry::cry: All this glass is just wonderful, I bet I can't afford any of it and am never likely to see any of it in reality. It's very unkind of you to taunt me like this! :cry::cry::cry: :wink: :D
Really, :D thanks ever so much for sharing it! :D
warners:
--- Quote from: "chopin-liszt" ---:cry::cry::cry: All this glass is just wonderful, I bet I can't afford any of it and am never likely to see any of it in reality. It's very unkind of you to taunt me like this! :cry::cry::cry: :wink: :D
Really, :D thanks ever so much for sharing it! :D
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Well, I don't know what your budget is like, so I can't tell you if you can afford any of it or not, but if I'm right (and I hope I am!) then it's more affordable now than it will ever be! :) Just for you, I'll post another photo today. This one is what's known as a "sunset" piece with a "drop leaf" design. OH, and I want to let everyone know that if they have tried to sign up for the club recently (in the past week or so!) that the sign up form is not currently working and I did NOT recieve your submission! I'm having my webmaster look at the form to see the source of the problem....I will post a new message on here when it's fixed. Sorry about that!
Here's the sunset piece with drop leaf decoration:
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Thanks for looking!
Warner
warners:
As promised, here is yet another piece of Lotton glass. This one is special (and is also one of my favorite pieces). This is a very early "multi-flora" vase that was created by Charles Lotton in 1975. I purchased this from a long-time friend of Charles who told me that it was the FIRST vase that he ever bought from Charles, now 30 years ago. What makes this special beyond the story behind it is the color of glass - the base blue color used on this is uncommon, and also the color of the flowers (the peach colored flowers are quite rare). In addtion, many of the early multi flora pieces had "muddy" looking flowers; meaning they commonly had a kind of "smeared" look to them. These flowers are quite crisp and well-defined, which again is rare for an early piece of multi-flora like this. The color combination is positively striking!
Let me know what you guys think of it!
Warner
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warners:
I'm assuming you want a piece made by Charles? David's pieces and Daniel's pieces, and the grandson Jeremiah's pieces are less expensive than Charles' pieces but I'm assuming you're talking about a Charles piece. Let's start with that assumption. The Charles perfume bottles have gotten as expensive on the secondary market as they are in the studio...and they may be the ONLY pieces to have done that. I think the reason for that is because he just doesn't make very many of them. You can expect to have to give between $750 and $1,000 from one of Charles' floral perfume bottles. As far as paperweights (with FLORAL decoration on them), they are in the same boat.....they are not very common and when they do come up for sale they usually bring around $300 on the secondary market. My personal recomendation in the bang-for-the-buck category would be a multi-flora vase. You can find deals on the small to medium sized multi-flora vases at times. I just bought a 6" mutli-flora vase (with orange and white flowers, no less!) for $450, so it can be done. You can find a larger multi-flora vase (but it will almost certainly have pink and white flowers on it) for somewhere around $1,000 if you look around. Be discriminate though! Try to find one with flowers that you are in love with. I have gotten picky now about what color and type of flowers that I will buy them with. I sold some nice ones when I bought the last collection that I bought for VERY good prices...some nice and rather rare ones I sold for $750. In the studio, the price for a nice large multi flora vase would be around $2,000. Look for a nice multi flora bowl to be close to twice that amount. Right now, the secondary market is bringing about half of retail on most pieces. For the blue piece above with the peach-colored flowers, I've been offered $2,000 for it and I'm not interested in selling it for that price. If you tell me what you are looking for and all, I can probably help you find one at a decent price.
I hope this helps,
Warner
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