Monday 9 February 2015

Ticking boxes


This pathetic picture is the best I could snatch off eBay. It is a double shot of a Georgian, glass candlestick dating from the first half of the 18th century. It came up on eBay a week ago and I have been watching it slip out of my grasp.

I thought, 'no point in bidding on that, it will go for between £400 and £500'. It sold for £410 last night.

Oh well. What amazes me is that it has survived, even with people putting burning candles in it - there again, maybe they didn't, which is how it survived.

Same with the drinking glasses - safe in the hands of drunkards.

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  1. Can't really see it, but the base looks nice. Roman archaeological sites are full of broken glass, as I imagine are Georgian sites. As you say...a miracle.

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  2. Miracle indeed that it survived. I am rather hamfisted so would never risk that much of anything made of glass - I like my expensive things to be bounceable.

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    1. I am trying to imagine expensive, bounceable things now.

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  3. I hope that you are all safely home over there in Bath

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    1. Yes thanks. I did drive past the very same turn-off at just the time it happened, but I took an even steeper route back into town.

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    2. I think I actually overtook the same tipper at junction 18. Horrible, poor sods.

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  4. If I had a lot of money, glass would be the collection of choice I think. They look gorgeous; well, actually, they look like clear plastic drawing pins, but you know what I mean.

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    1. Yes. I am still not too clear as to why I find them so alluring, but I think you understand.

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