Has This Ever Happened to You?

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by ola402, Aug 22, 2014.

  1. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    Sometimes this business can get real coincidental so I'll ask "has this ever happened to you?"

    I went to a live auction this week and bought a Service for 12 of Haviland all white china in the Torse pattern with the marks from the 50s-60s. Really lovely and I wish I could keep it for myself, but I digress . . .

    One day later, I look in on a local on-line auction for some furniture (I'm redecorating a guest room) and I find more white Torse, but with older marks. So I bid on it and won it.

    Then I see where there's another on-line auction the same day in an area of town that is nearby so I look at it and guess what the first item is, a set of Haviland Torse Bergere! It's raining Torse! So I won it too AND got a great piece of furniture at the 2nd auction for my guest bedroom.

    I started thinking about this years ago when I found a Westmoreland milk glass square cake stand that I hadn't seen in Years at an auction, and then found another a week later (and won that one at a much better price). It seems that these multiple spottings happen frequently. Has this ever happened to you?
     
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  2. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    I have had a number of things like that recently. Not seen for a long time, then at every sale or auction.

    Recently it was tonnage though. Every sale a truckload of heavy grunge.
     
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  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    It happens. If an item was hot for a few years, all the folks who bought it at the time break up house/retire at about the same time too. And out it pops. I'm waiting for my sister's patterns to show up that way.
     
  4. spirit-of-shiloh

    spirit-of-shiloh Well-Known Member

    Wow ola, what a neat "three time" haul, and pricey little buggers too. ;)
     
  5. spirit-of-shiloh

    spirit-of-shiloh Well-Known Member

    Oh, usually the only time I have a period of threes is when I lose an animal,never fails two more will follow. :arghh:
     
  6. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    I don't have any pets, but my friend always has at least 2-3 dogs (small ones). She said that the "dying at the same time" thing was so traumatic that she is now staggering her dogs. When one of them gets a little elderly, she gets another puppy. Sounds harsh but it really isn't, the losses are hard not only on the people but on her other pets as well.
     
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  7. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    Hi,
    It always happened as soon as I give up collecting something and sell them. Three or four other pieces show up.
    greg:sour::sour::sour::sour::sour::sour::sour::sour:
     
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  8. spirit-of-shiloh

    spirit-of-shiloh Well-Known Member

    I agree Ola, when I was rescuing animals,horses and cats, they came in age groups so of course most passed away in clusters according to age. I have had a few horses and cats out live their counter parts. :) Yes they DO mourn too. :arghh:
     
  9. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    LOL, Greg! It happens to me when I've been hoarding an odd saucer or lid or whatever piece part. And then, I get crazy and do a clean sweep, that's when the matching pieces start to show up. Never fails!
     
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  10. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Knock on wood, I have been very fortunate in that many times I will decide that I would like to find a certain item at the thrift shops (or tag sales, or whatever), and LO! they appear. Sometimes the items have been really ridiculous. Like the time I needed lavender knitting yarn for wrapping a birthday present, and then a potato masher -- the kind with an insert and a piece of metal that goes sqoush. And pale, pale pink damask napkins. An enormous and elegant 3-ring notebook. (The elegance was the operative feature) One of the finds which really delighted me was flat edged, white with gold soup plates. Nine of them -- five from one person, four from another -- exactly the same, and on the same DAY!

    Going to look up Torse now! :)
     
  11. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    AHA! :) Learned a new word!
     
  12. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    A lot of it is just keeping your eyes peeled. That Bergere pattern is pretty. 1980s?
     
  13. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    I looked up the mark in Nora Travis' book and she has it between 1958 - 1967. It's a Theo. Haviland pattern.
     
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