How to Identify Damaged Copper Luster

Video Transcript

"So collecting copper luster some of things that you want to talk about in condition is chips and cracks and is very common in copper luster one of the things that you really need to consider when your buying a piece like this. If your buying it a shelf piece or if you want to retail it at some time later down the road I don't like to buy pieces with chips and cracks but you'll find there's an over abundance of this out there with lots of chips and cracks. So I can show you a couple of examples here this very common you'll find in this spouts of these pieces there chips, nips, and cracks it's a little difficult to see here but on the corner there there's a roughness. If you rub your fingers around on this you can feel the roughness on that and thats going to affect the price that's a mild chip and compared to some of them. I can show you up here a few other pieces that have chips and cracks that some examples up here, this is a repaired one that I showed you this before. This had a crack in it and someone tried to repair it and didn't do a very good job this is definitely going to affect the value of a piece. Let me see if I can put this up here and see if I can find you another piece that has here this is a later piece but you can see on the back side of this. This handle is a chip on the back side of it right here this is definitely affects the value of when your buying a piece like this, something to consider. Really always take a look at the spout because that's one place your going to find a lot of chips and cracks and the handles right here, or anywhere along the inside you might find a crack or a line in them. So chips are really abundant in these pieces something you want to try to avoid unless it's a really desired piece and you don't have it in your collection and you really have to have it. So that's something to consider when your thinking about investing money to copper luster chips are out there and abundance and the practice I try to tell people is not to buy any chipped or cracked if you don't have to."