Topic: Worst Buys !! What do you have hidden

[petet63]

Just been thinking about all the bits of glass I buy and realised I have a vase that I bought but have never listed or shown as its better off hiding at the back of the cupboard. I have no idea why I bought it. It is quite a large vase and a lovely brown colour.  What pieces do you have hidden from public view !!!
 http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/petet63/SDC11547.jpg 
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/petet63/SDC11555.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/petet63/SDC11548.jpg

P.S. Free to a good home

[keith]

You've not seen my swan ,it's not on display but I like it in a way,I think someone said it looked like it had been trodden on

[jakgene]

Oh I am glad it is not only me!

This one looks okay at a distance - with the light behind it - but it is a huge clunky ugly thing close to.
Murano my foot!  Definitely further east than that!
Jackie

[jakgene]

P.S.  Keith - your poor swan looks like I feel when it gets to about 44C in the summer - sort of melted ! But still cute.  (the swan - not me!!)   Jackie

[petet63]

I still feel I am winning this one The swan is close mind you  . Colour it brown and it would beat mine. The vase has a hollow stem and the pontil mark looks like the maker couldn't be bothered and let the vase fall off  The foot is so uneven. An end of a hard day 'sod it ..that will do' piece for sure.  Its a mistake you only make once. I cant throw it away its not in my nature and would have to pay someone to take it I think. Its a reminder to be a lot more selective 

[Tigerchips]

I don't really hide stuff, most of it is in my Picasa album (link in sig). I might forget to photograph it or lose the photo.

I like the vase in the first thread. Nice polished pontil i think. Unusual shape. I like the blue vase as well, i would have thought Czech with the blue side lobes. I would have bought it just to find out.

The swan, ha ha ha, you never know, it might turn out to be a rare Whitefriars flattie Swan! 

Edit: Flattie around my area is a kind of flatfish (dab, halibut, etc). 

[flying free]

I don't have anything I consider truly hideous, but I do own about a  handful of very expensive mistakes  - I have taken to selling them at far less than I paid for them just to get rid - the things that may be considered hideous (beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all) generally cost a few pounds.  So for some reason they don't offend me.  It's the pieces that cost me dearly, because I was too stupid to listen to that internal voice that said 'check it out first' that I resent   
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[chopin-liszt]

Just the other week I bought a small glass seagull in a charity shop - nothing spectacular - but I was convinced it was uranium. I didn't have my black-light to check, but it glowed like billy-o in the sunshine.

Got it home. Washed it. The day-glo glass paint came off.

[flying free]

oh Sue  , I'm sorry but that was the funniest story!!
It made me think of my gorgeous lime green vase that was knicker elastic pink when I opened the bag when I got home.  But at least I managed to sell that to a friend who absolutely loved it.
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[keith]

Ok,I don't show this very often,the vase itself is fine,it's the decoration what a face