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This video teaches you to buy, or not to buy, like the dealers do. You will learn to evaluate a piece of glass as to quality of blank, polish and desirability.
We will take you step by step through the process of making a buying decision. We share the dealers' thought process from the first glimpse, at some distance away, up to and through the actual touching of the intriguing piece. Learn the questions to ask the parties involved. But most importantly, learn the questions to ask yourself each step along the way.
Successful dealers will buy about one piece for every 100 they examine. You will learn the reasons the 99 are not purchased. A cut glass dealer can evaluate all the factors involved, albeit in fractions of seconds, and you will learn all the techniques to make the same evaluations.
Among the subjects covered: signatures, importance and unimportance, the optimum patterns for optical and engineering effect, acid polish - how to detect it and the assets and liabilities of this style of polish, why stoppers are not interchangeable, how to check handles for cracks and annealing marks, blown blanks and figured blanks, the assets and liabilities of each and how to tell in an instant which you have before you and which you want in your collection, you will learn how wood polish was done and the assets and liabilities of this style polish, and why you want both wood and acid polished in your collection, and determining to collect objects or patterns or both.
After 75 minutes with this tape, you will know more about evaluating cut glass than 95% of the shop and show dealers. That's not bad folks. |
