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<p>[QUOTE="ola402, post: 13225597, member: 182"]There are several pieces of Teaberry for sale on eBay right now and one of them is your Six Petal candy. The seller wants $350 for it. With today's crazy prices for all things Viking, he'll probably get that price. This is an amazing piece!</p><p><br /></p><p>Several years ago, I contacted Preston Ver Meer because there is another somewhat HTF color Viking made that was Pink. The Pink color was called Thistle and the lavender color was called Teaberry. To me that seemed backwards. Thistles are purple and Teaberry (the gum at least) is pink. He gave me a catalog reference from Viking proving that the color names were correct. (I still think it was a typo, LOL!). But those 2 names were always confusing to people so some of them defaulted to saying just pink or lavender. And let's face it, would the average person search Teaberry if they wanted a lavender candy jar?</p><p><br /></p><p>Your jars are AWESOME and you should do very well. IMHO, best finds of the summer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ola402, post: 13225597, member: 182"]There are several pieces of Teaberry for sale on eBay right now and one of them is your Six Petal candy. The seller wants $350 for it. With today's crazy prices for all things Viking, he'll probably get that price. This is an amazing piece! Several years ago, I contacted Preston Ver Meer because there is another somewhat HTF color Viking made that was Pink. The Pink color was called Thistle and the lavender color was called Teaberry. To me that seemed backwards. Thistles are purple and Teaberry (the gum at least) is pink. He gave me a catalog reference from Viking proving that the color names were correct. (I still think it was a typo, LOL!). But those 2 names were always confusing to people so some of them defaulted to saying just pink or lavender. And let's face it, would the average person search Teaberry if they wanted a lavender candy jar? Your jars are AWESOME and you should do very well. IMHO, best finds of the summer.[/QUOTE]
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