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Message:: [QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 10652860, member: 5170"]I tend to break about one thing out of our collection per year. I can sometimes replace it, but one particularly unfortunate example was a Deco light blue perfume bottle with a very long stopper. This happened about 10 years ago, and I've never found a match, though I continue to look several times a year. The few that I've found that are similar are priced WAY above what I paid at an estate sale for the one we had. More recently, last year I knocked a prism off of a Victorian hanging lamp and, although it fell into a blanket in a padded basket, it broke. Happily, I could replace it for $15.00. The worst example may be this year. I've been posting goodies we got at a national historic lighting show, including a wall fixture ca. 1915 with two etched shades. Those are replacements. When I was taking the first pair out to the car, one of them squeezed out of its bubble wrap, flew threw the air, and exploded into a thousand pieces on the parking lot. If it were filmed, you could have zoomed in on my horrified expression as I shouted "NOOOOOOOO" in a basso, super slo-mo voice. So I had to trudge back to the show, talk about this horrible event, return the surviving shade (because who needs one shade on a two-shaded piece?) and contract to find another sympathetic pair. Money wasted, and one half of a pair of irreplaceable shades lost.[/QUOTE]