Here are some of the pieces I currently have and, as you can see, they are protected from small children by being displayed in a lighted glass fronted curio cabinet that my Dad built for me.
I need new drinking glasses. I haven't gotten new glasses in 10 years and, as is wont to happen, I have had several break and now I have a hobnob of mismatched drinkware which doesn't serve me well when I have company. For my birthday last month my parents gave me money to go and buy new glasses. So I went to every store and all the glasses I found looked pretty much the same. Standard and boring. If I'm only going to get new glasses once every 10 years I want them to be unique, pretty and go with my style. I ended up turning to Ebay, land of all things beautiful and strange! I found not one, but two sets of glasses that came with matching pitchers and they just got here yesterday!
Aren't they beautiful? They are vintage West Virginia blendo glasses with almost no wear. I snagged both sets, along with an orange chip and dip bowl that hasn't arrived yet, for 85.00, which includes the shipping cost.
My husband immediately made the comment that they should be in my case with the rest of my collectable glass and you know what? He is right. They are a collectable, but I didn't buy them to sit them in a case and get dusty. I bought them to use them. I'm certain they will show signs of wear here in a few years, namely the gold band will be rubbed off, and I'm sure the value of them will decrease when it does, but who cares? They are meant for drinking, as long as they don't get broken, THEN I will wish I had just put them in my case.
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