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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bdigger, post: 397023, member: 157&quot;]About Steuben Quality.......Years ago, when BIN was a new option with eBay....I listed an Alexandrite vase I had, with a BIN which was under $60.00.&nbsp; It was a plain little vase with a paneled design. It was ice cream cone shape with no markings. I judged it to be one of the lesser quality pieces in my collection. I got a bid on it, which in those days, the BIN option would disappear if there was a bid. The next day my eBay &quot;contact seller&quot; folder blew up! A Steuben club member saw the auction and informed me that&nbsp; the vase was a Carder Steuben era Rare Alexandrite vase. He showed the listing to the club and somebody there, taught an antiques class at the local college, and shared it with his class.( probably saying look what you can find on eBay from stupid sellers who don&#039;t know what they have! LOL) Long&nbsp; story short......The vase sold for over $700. Anyway, the quality just wasn&#039;t there. I asked the club member about that, and he said in a nutshell, that design often overtook quality with Steuben.</p><p>The vase may have been a 2nd, I don&#039;t know, but the quality I assumed for Steuben just wasn&#039;t there. Since then I have handled a number of Steuben snail handled&nbsp; olive bowls and none of those were the quality I associate with steuben either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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