What is Antique Pink Luster?

Series Summary

Oh, how we do miss the days of Dickens and Browning, the yesteryears of Whitman and Twain. Those were the good ole days, the century of political upheaval, the age of guilded morality, the epoch of crooked politicians, the end of serfdom, and the rise of capitalism and Nation States. That's right, we all miss the the wonderful, the glorious, the 19th century. But alas, that is a time that has passed, eroded by the inevitable passing of Father Time. The Industrial age has progressed into the post-Industrial Age, and Victorian morality had undergone a transvaluation of values. O bard, sound forth your barbaric yawp over all the world, the 19th century is dead. But never fear, with every death comes new life. The death of the nineteenth century means the birth of great antiques, including the Victorian age antique pink luster ceramics!

In this free video series, watch as professional antique dealer and collector Sue Shea teaches how to collect antique pink luster. Learn all about collecting antique pink luster teacups, tableware, and plates. Find out where to buy them, how to sell them, how to restore antique pink luster, and how to display them.

Video Transcript

"Hi today we are here to talk about pink luster and what we have here in the shelves in my shop at Shea Antiques we have pink luster in a couple of shelves that we are going to share with you today. So one thing that I wanted to talk about first when you are collecting this when you talk about and you say 19 century. What I mean by 19 century is the 1800s and people usually get confused that you need to remember that when talk about 18 century you are talking about things that where made in 1700s. So in reference is like we are in the 21st century so we know we are in 2007. So just remember you go back a 100 years when you are talking in centuries. So now that we got that cleared up we are talking today about 19 century pink luster. You can find pink luster listed in 2 different ways they spell it 2 different ways pink luster can be spelled l-u-s-t-e-r or you can spell it l-u-s-t-r-e. This a pink soft paste earthenware that comes from england it is a export you can find it most of it that we have here is produce in england and is exported for the American trade. So we are going to talk about the different types and the different shape so that is what we would discuss today about pink luster. "