Topic: Worst Buys !! What do you have hidden

[keith]

No glow m,

[glassobsessed]

To embarrassed to keep all of mine, they were palmed off to a charity shop.

Aaargh, I lie, I still have one of them, I keep it to remind me of my folly, not that I learnt from it.
I bought it on ebay not long after I first registered, a 'Scandinavian' looking vase the Canadian seller said was made by Holmegaard. When it arrived I realised it was three inches tall not the ten or so I was expecting. It obviously was not Holmegaard and years later I discovered it was made by ICET in Venezuela. It is 'displayed' in my hall.

John

[keith]

The colour reminds me of the chocolate blancmange they used to serve for school dinners

[Leni]

The colour reminds me of the chocolate blancmange they used to serve for school dinners

   That is so true Keith!  I remember it well - especially the skin on the top, which you always prayed you wouldn't get a lump of in your serving!    

Back to the thread subject ...  I have to admit that I display ALL my glass somewhere!  None of it is actually hidden away or in cupboards, although some of it may be high up at the back on top of a cabinet!  However, my worst buy is this: 

It was on our first trip to Murano - in fact, our first trip to Venice.  The hotel in Venice offered a free boat ride to Murano and we, being 'innocents abroad', fell for it.  What happens is, the hotel have an agreement with a particular salesroom on Murano and the 'free boat trip' takes you to the back entrance of that showroom, not to Murano proper.   You are herded in, given a brief display of some fairly basic glassblowing, and then lead to the sales area, where the 'hard sell' begins, and you are put under great pressure to buy something - anything, but the more expensive the better! - and then when everyone on the trip has bought something you are herded back out the back entrance and into the private hotel boat back to Venice!  And some poor tourists think that's it!  They've 'seen' Murano!      

We had to buy something to escape the pressure, so this is what we bought!  I loath it, but J says we should keep it as a reminder of our first visit (we did go back later, on the Vaporetto- Water Bus - and see Murano proper) so this little piece of tat (sorry JB) is still on display, although it stands on the top at the back of a cabinet! 

[petet63]

Is it small or a Holmegaard piece but very far away