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Summary: An antiques expert explains the cost and pricing of ruby flash glass antiques in this free video clip on collecting antiques.
Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19th century antique country...read more
"So trying to price out ruby flash you'll find that there's a lot of it out there on varying conditions and that will really affect the price. So obviously a piece thats later souvenir pieces like this are fairly common easy to find. These little toothpick holders you can find pretty inexpensive anywhere from 15-$30 depending on if they're in your area they have your name your home town on it it my be a little more expensive than a home town or town that is on the west coast, and your selling it on the east coast. But these are very common pretty inexpensive this ruby flash goblet here is priced at $32 it's in excellent condition and that affects the price you can find this goblet cheaper if it has staining or any other conditions. So that's something to consider this piece right here is a ruby flash just a decorative it has a lot of flowerer and vine design to it and this is priced at $35. These goblets will range depending on the condition mostly the scratching will affect the price you can pay upwards to 35-$45 per goblet. Some of the other little more expensive like water pitchers sets like this will range around to $85-$125 depending on the condition. This is a real nice piece and in excellent condition with not a lot of scratching and no chips so this is something they would put by there bed at night and keep water in it, so they would have water next to there bed. Nice little piece to collect some of the other examples we can show you are these other types of goblets and these range anywhere in 25-$45 range a butter cover dish like this in ruby flash in excellent condition can cost you anywhere from 100-$150. Here's a sugar bowl in very good condition in the range of 90-$95, we also have little berry bowls like this that can cost your from 15-$20, sugar spooners like this anywhere from 24-$35 depending on the condition. When you get into table ware sets like plates or small dinner ware pieces they can range anywhere from 20-$80 per plate depending on the condition of the plate and the pattern. The pattern will make a difference in the price these are really pretty little pitcher here this pitcher would range somewhere in the 70-$85. But if you saw this pitcher in a larger size with goblets with it you could pay anywhere from 150-$250. So that gives you a little bit on price range your reference books will also help you to get an idea on how much these pieces are going to cost, so there is a small sampling for you today."