Topic: Rustic 'flower'

[Leni]

I know these have limited appeal (limited to me?  ) but I've just acquired another of my rustic flower 'Audrey's, this time in cranberry and clear! 

Manley shows one of these (and attributes it to Richardson), and Mervyn Gulliver shows several, in various stages of 'decay' - they were made with petals up, half down and completely wilted, like my latest.  It seems they were also made in many colours and combinations of glass! 

I now have this 'wilting' version in cranberry and clear, a fully 'open' flower in Vaseline/uranium green and opalescent, a fully open cranberry cased in uranium green, and a partially closed cranberry cased in uranium green tipped with opalescent, while Manley shows a 'wilted one in uranium green opalescent and Gulliver shows three different version in a pinky-amber and clear!  How many more am I going to need to get to have a complete collection!    Impossible, I guess, but it keeps me hunting! 

 

[Leni]

A week ago I posted this little 'Audrey'.  I got her on ebay for just over a fiver.  No-one else bid! 

Since then I've been watching this auction - for her 'big sister' - and am amazed to see the price she's reached so far!    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260250300762

Obviously nobody else collects the quirky little rustic flowers I like so much, but why is there so much more interest in this one?  Is it heightist?     

  

[Lustrousstone]

I think it's that the big sister is more normal, less Little Shop of Horrors, or maybe they know who made her, or maybe just the right day