Ruby Flash Glass Popularity & Price

Video Transcript

"One of the things I just wanted to talk a little bit about when were just talking in general about collecting and were talking right now specifically about collecting ruby flash. A lot of these things become popular for a lot of different reasons and I can give you a few examples. I mean everyone knows Martha Stewart when she had her show she would go on and she would show you some of the things that she'd likes a lot that are antique. One of the things in particular comes to mind with me is yellow ware and she displays it in back of here when she's talking on her show and doing any cooking. You'll see a lot of yellow ware it becomes similar to people people want to collect it, if Martha Stewart collects it then it must be good. So another thing that comes to mind is fire king which is the green dinnerware produced in the 1900's that Martha Stewart shows all the time. You can see she actually reproduced this fire king and became very popular so it raises the price on these items when they become more in demand. So something to consider when your thinking about collection if your trying to define where you want to collect I can tell you just from my own experience just seeing now transfer ware brown transfer ware is very collectible right now and its commanding very high prices. And thats because Martha Stewart made it popular she shows them in a lot of her magazines and 20 years ago in my experience brown transfer ware I had in my show I couldn't sell it. So you can see just the time frame will make a difference and what you collect and how much your going to pay for it. Something to consider so you can look at all the different areas of where these types of collectibles are shown and you can see some of them are more popular now than others. And those pieces are more popular at this time period are going to cost more money, so that's a consideration when thinking about collecting something. Also to consider how much money you have available accessible to go out there and collect so just some general things about collecting and ruby glass falls into the same catogory. I mean it has it popularity in the late 1800's early 1920's and people loved to collect ruby whether I feel this has more room in value so your paying a fairly reasonable price in down the road hopefully your value will increase. So something to consider when your thinking about collecting anything in particular but what were talking about today is ruby flash. "