My cut to clear set nobody was seriously interested in. Most sets sell for $45-$50 minimum, some more "elegant" but with more of a "normal" or typical cut pattern bring $75 to $100 & this set froze at like $15 or $17.50 & I ended up paying $25 I believe (no more).. I couldn't believe it! Its completely damage free, every piece! I thought the cuts were very unusual & nice, it's very well done for sure.
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I wish we had prices like that around here. These auctions you go to are starting to sound mysterious to me.
I will tell you that I know how to grind and polish glass flat. I have been shown and fooled around on a cutting wheel before. What I have been told by someone in there 90s is that cutting glass is akin to smoking. It probably wont be what kills you but he hand known some glassworkers who had problems from it and some who did it their entire life with no problems. Bottom line is breathing particulate glass is bad. I will attempt to explain why your pattern is unusual. Today they draw the lines on for the pattern with a metallic maker. I have no idea what they use to use. Then you grind away the line with basically a vertically mounted tile saw. The come in different diameters depending on the size of the piece. That is for the fine lines. That part is not too hard on a flat piece following a straight line. Like a serving tray. Then there are other wheels where it comes up to a higher polish. I think the old timers finished it on a horsehair wheel. Usually you just see the dots cut with the grinding wheel. Its much wider curved wheel. Like the lapidary gem people use. The reason yours is unusual is because they were follow a curved line on a curved part of the glass. Actually its pretty much showing off. Usually the curves are only seen on the flat items like serving trays. The people who do it, can do it very quickly like its nothing but spacial its a very difficult cut. I hope that makes sense.
Fascinating info my friend! Would like to know even more especially on the polishing end! Any glass cutter who ever cut uranium glass probably died as a result because glass dust alone is bad enough but then throw in uranium with it & then breathing any in it's thyroid cancer basically guaranteed! And there are cut to clear vaseline pieces (very expensive stuff). I believe most Pairpoint vaseline glass is cut as well, it's crystal vaseline (leaded).
The auction I go to is the best within 175 miles. People come from as far away as Louisville, Cincinnati & up near Chicago every single week for this auction in Indy. A guy just left here a few weeks ago from Texas, he spent a month up here going to many auctions but this particular auction is why he makes the trip. He says auctions where he is at the same stuff would bring triple what it does here. He & his partner left with 2 semi trucks full. He makes the trip every year in October to mid or late November depending on our weather & buys enough to last for almost the whole year for his shops in Texas. He's a really nice friendly guy!
It's been bad the past 3 weeks now at this auction, the worst I've seen it in 2.5 years. Tho for example even when it's bad I get deals like this.. I bought a pallet today with 2 large Infinity reference 2000.6 tower speakers & an M & K (Miller & Kreisel) 12" subwoofer along with a box of stuff not worth but about $5 or $10 at most & all for just $35. Choices were low & prices were high today but not on this pallet, I got a down right steal (normally would have brought $100 easy)! I'll get $250 minimum just for all 3 speakers on CL real easy. But then in the main room a 1940's Fada bakelite or catalin radio that you could have got on eBay for $400 or less in this condition sold for $500. Some stuff sells beyond eBay prices & some stuff they give away. It's all about whose there that day & what their into. About 800 people attend this auction. It's in 5 different buildings (main room, pallet room, furniture building (which is almost 10K sq Ft alone), a specialty building & a tool building + they sell vehicles outside at noon too. It's a mad house at times!
