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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 132522, member: 878&quot;]I always thought &quot;Museum Quality&quot; meant A 1 condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for damaged pieces.</p><p>My major collection has been glass, 90% having two pieces. Lid and base. I began to realize, ----and had several fellow collectors concur, ----- that if I came across a piece that reportedly was one of only ten known to still exist I&#039;m going to grab it even though it&#039;s in ten pieces. Right price, of course. Why not? How many other times am I going to even get to touch one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also, BTW, found an excellent glass restorer within easy driving distance. His only fault was that he worked ALONE, has a few hundred square feet of 6 shelf high units and has glass that&#039;s been sitting there for <i>years</i> waiting to be repaired. Most of those pieces were out of the US customers. He did repair three for me - all within 6 months or less. One in two weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>SO, buy a broken piece? Depends on price, scarcity and extent of damage.</p><p>That&#039;s how I got started on eBay. I&#039;d buy a piece with a perfect top and bad base. Two years later find another with a perfect base and crap top. Keep the new base, old top, have a perfect piece and sell the bad top and bottom on eBay. (Amazing sometimes what it sold for. Often BV.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Still on topic = I once found a Staffordshire HON in the basement of a tag sale house. Shattered into about 20 pieces and very amateurishly glued back together. Took it upstairs and asked for a price. $3.00. Put it on eBay and shipped it to the highest bidder - in Wales - for $165.00 or thereabout.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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