Antique Iron Stone Collecting: Chips & Cracks

Video Transcript

"When taking into consideration when your going to buy a piece of iron stone one of the things your going to see its really typical on a piece like this is crazing. And this various degrees and I can show you a little example of it here on this teapot where there is little crackling that's going through the glass through the porcelain here. Some more example of it on the underside you can see on the bottom of the pot all the way going up and that's just over the years the breakdown on of the glaze and it starts to split and crack as the porcelain dries out. So that's something to think about when your buying a piece like this cause the more crazing you have you can see on the top there's a lot of crazing going on up here. When you think about buying a pot to use this is a nice clean pot on the inside you want to take a look at the inside to see how the crazing is on here and it's really not in bad shape at all. This is a pot that you can actually buy and use if your considering wanting to use a pot like this so there is a variation of crazing your going to expect to see this and an older pot like this but and it doesn't take away from the value unless you have an extreme crazing where there's a lot of dirt penetrating into the pot. At that point I would say I would consider not buying something like that if you want to use it so crazing is one of the things to consider when your thinking about buying a piece of iron stone. Another thing I wanted to show you here is cracks and chips make a big difference in your price. So when considering buying a piece like this this is a very tight hairline I'm not sure if you can see but it's right here on the pot it's a very tight hairline that does affect the price. Some what but not a lot it's in the bottom of the sugar bowl here but its also but the rest of the sugar bowl is in really mint condition. I meant the covers in great shape the finials on perfect the handle is in tact the gold banding on it is really clear and clean it's a piece that you can put sugar in and you wouldn't have to feel bad about it all. It displays well and you can use it so I wouldn't' it won't affect the price greatly it would have a little affect on it. But not a large affect as oppose to if you look at this and it had a big chunk in the cover or on the side and you saw discoloration it would drastically affect the price to this sugar bowl. So that's some things to consider when your talking about buying pieces with lines and chips and discoloration."