I’m a glass dealer. That means I get to go antiquing, ooh and ah, buy glass, get it home, ooh and ah, clean it up, photograph, ooh and ah, then list and hopefully, eventually, sell it. With lots of ooh and ah every time I get the piece out of course.
You get the picture. I love glass, and love getting it and holding it and the end step in all this is to sell it. Since I don’t collect much glass (although our Rose Point has grown to overflow two cupboards), buying to resell is a good way to keep my glass happiness topped off. Yet sometimes it is hard to say good-bye.
This week I sold a piece in a favorite color, favorite etch that I had seriously considered keeping. Cheese and cracker sets are super, unusual, fun pieces that are also practical. We didn’t have one and I like this Cambridge amber set – a lot.
Cambridge Glass Windows Border Etch 704 Amber Cheese and Cracker Set
All my our glass for sale – my inventory – is wrapped safely in boxes, separate from anything we own for ourselves. But that doesn’t stop me from thinking about maybe, just maybe, a couple of these pieces ought to make a permanent home with us.
I decided to part with this and hardened my heart when Dave surprised me with a Rose Point cheese and cracker set. Had he not this one would have stayed here with me! Right now the Cambridge amber set is all wrapped and boxed and waiting for the mail man to pick it up to send to a nice customer who surely will be glad to have it.
It’s time to go ooh and ah at some more glass and get it listed for sale too.