I always been visually drawn to Carnival Glass especially because anything iridescent purple I am a sucker for and must have. I didn't know anything about it but know it's collectible and expensive but hoped one day I am stumbled across a dirt cheap piece for my own. Well that day came a few weeks ago. My fav antique store guy Roland, right away told me he had to show me something and said " somebody told me it's worth alot of money so this is why I want you to have to have it " Normally he sells me all glass stuff for a buck but this was $15 but it was something I always wanted regardless so I didn't mind. He was so worried thinking he was being heavy handed in his sales pitch but said " The guy said they are selling online for $400 so you will make alot of money selling it so I just had to tell you, don't think I'm ..." I was like " I WILL TAKE IT! I MUST HAVE IT!" I trust the guy but regardless an affordable Purple Carnival piece - YES PLEASE! Anyway, looked it up and it's VERY rare and currently would sell now for about 10k !!!! It's documented the last one that sold in 2010, 6 years ago for $ 8,750 . . I AM FREAKING OUT! Now I gotta out how to sell it which would probably be something a lil more professional then Ebay.
HOLD UP WAIT A MINUTE! I'm learning Carnival Glass is a complex sensory information overload where all the VERY confusing colors and patterns dictate all worth ...And my head is spinning ! Due to the iridescent aspect some things that look like one color is really called another color and maybe what is I thought was a purple vase is really a " smoke" colored vase which the worth goes stumbling to 10k to $500...but lets not be greedy. that is still a huge chunk of change for something I got for $15. Now I found another one, identical but for $75- you dang right I am about to buy it up. The only other one I found online was a antique specialty website selling for over $500....So worse case scenario 2 vases for $90 total and I can easily make $1,000- sounds like my first antique flipping success!
Now , now . noooooow....I cannot help but become a devoted Carnival collector now and it will be a huge responsibility filled with lots of research ( which I tend to enjoy and am fairly good at ) The shapes, patterns, colors- Oh my....The headaches, the paranoia of fakes, the thrills and the high of finding and obtaining a rare highly sought after costly piece. I know what I got to deal with is wanting for this to become one of my selected " treasure hunts" but I am ready to go on the Carnival ride of a lifetime.
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