Shot of the Week

Greetings, fellow glass-lusters, Mr Nasty is back.

But -- since this IS the season of charitable giving, I'll try and keep the "bah humbug" to a minimum and even go so far as to find something nice to say about that assh*le who keeps bidding me up/bidding me out on all the juicy glasses (that would be xxxtruk, just in case you've been living in a log cabin in the woods whittling explosive devices for the past year or so, or your powers of retention approximate that of a semi-cooked lima bean )

I was back home in the UK for a couple of weeks and then on the road house-hunting (pre-pro is relocating to GA: more on that later) and hence I've missed much of the bloody action on eBay. But I did take note of some nice little baubles falling off the eBay tree upon my return, so there's more than enough to talk about despite the tailing off of listings for the holiday season. I guess the rationale for the latter is that sellers assume everyone will be glued to their TV's watching endless re-runs of The Sound of Music or It's a Wonderful (gag-me with a spoon) Life.

So where do we start?

How about with glasshopper's seemingly unquenchable need to spend big bucks on the dinged and/or scuffed? Ooops, no, it's Christmas and I have to be nice .

OK, since the color of the season is red (some would say green, and I'd have trouble arguing with that one), how about the red Uneeda that junkmoney snatched from Arizona Ed for $183? Ouch. A year or so ago, he'd get a red-gold Hayner for that one, but times they are a changin'. *sigh*


Old Gag Dutchins, Urk glasshopper8: $55.00	Male is Your Moog, Urk glasshopper8: $52.00

	U Needa this this bad??? Urk

Hmmmm.

Time to sidle up to the mistletoe and give xxxtruk a big wet one ---> *smoooooch* <--- for the following.

Two nice glasses. Two valiant gladiators. On the left: oldwhiskey. On the right: xxxtruk. And the winner is:

For the Morning Glory, nice piccie glass, flared, mint. xxxtruk -- $76.00. Bugger!
For the Hawks Liquor. This was a sleeper and didn't look like much of anything in the auction photo, but bluroc has one in his collection and hence this needed a serious, 3-figure snipe. xxxtruk -- $124.72. BUGGER! *Again!*

So what about a SOTW?

I hope you'll indulge me on this one, but there really was no other serious contender and it is Christmas after all. Ironically, this one listed while I was away and I only found it while searching glasshopper's bidding activities (sorry Joe) so that I could keep the auction database up to date.

This auction was still current and when I first pulled up the listing, it didn't look like much of anything because the first photo to load (after a 2 min wait, thanks AOL) was a side view of a faded etched label that read:

"Compliments of W C Peacock & Co."

If I hadn't been to Reno for the National FOHBC show and hadn't taken photo's of Russ Umbraco's three rare glasses, I might never have given this one a second look, but I now know that Peacock was a Hawaiian dealer.

And I also knew from Russ' glasses that this was a lug.

So let's do the pre-Pro math:

Hawaiian Territory = super rare (three known)

lug = rare rare

oldwhiskey mindless fascination for lug's = $illy money.

super rare x very rare x $illy money = $1,000+

So ultimately this was a no-brainer. I was lucky to snatch it away from a Hawaii collector for $620.00.

"MINT shotglass from Hawaii etched on glass: "COMPIMENTS OF W.C.PEACOCK & CO."

Applied to bottom outside base is an old decal: "HAWAIIAN COAT OF ARMS."

The rim has a gold ring to top edge; however, with age it is faded somewhat.

Size approx: 2 1/4 inches tall; 1 7/8 inches diameter top rim; and 1 1/2 inches diameter at base. NO CRACKS; REPAIRS, CHIPS, whatever....

There are some cotton ball residue to glass, it is not scratches. I failed to wipe it."

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		Shot of the Week	Item number: 300057877414