{"id":11302,"date":"2016-08-28T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2016-08-28T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:29:09","slug":"not-a-make-do-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=11302","title":{"rendered":"Not a make-do, part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe learn from failure, not from success!\u201d Bram Stoker, Dracula
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Well said, Mr. Stoker. Over the years, I have purchased a handful of items which, at the time, appeared to have\u00a0inventive repairs. But upon closer inspection, I discovered they were not\u00a0make-do’s. Here are a few of my mistakes that I eventually grew to love and even learned something from.<\/p>\n

During a trip to Amsterdam a few years ago I purchased four\u00a0glasses with silver bases at an antiques market. I was surprised to find over a dozen\u00a0pieces with similar silver repairs\u00a0all in one place. Assured by the\u00a0dealer\u00a0that the bases were indeed replacements and not original to the glassware,\u00a0I\u00a0bought a few of them, even though I was still not entirely convinced of his claim. Upon returning\u00a0home, I began to research them\u00a0extensively\u00a0and after hours of digging deep into the depths\u00a0of Google, came up with nothing. Months later, I accidentally stumbled upon a similar piece for sale in Amsterdam. After contacting the shop, Valentijn Antiek<\/a>, and asking for information regarding this specific type of “repair”, I was told that these were not repaired pieces. The dealer\u00a0went on to tell me that they were and still are being made by contemporary jewelers. I was told\u00a0“For clarification, you should know something about the (Dutch) national character: The Dutch are and were very frugal. A repair, for example, crystal, should not cost too much. Objects are restored only in case 1) there is not as quick as possible a replacement; 2) the material of the object is expensive and scarce; 3) it is a precious object, because it is a reminder; or because one has received it from someone (like your mother in law) with whom you do not want to have to get a quarrel.”<\/p>\n

This delicate champagne flute is the first piece\u00a0I bought. I still find it hard to\u00a0believe that its silver base\u00a0is not an inventive repair.<\/p>\n

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This goblet has a nicely detailed silver base. It also had me fooled.<\/p>\n

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I was a bit more skeptical of these two, which appear to be from the 1960s. Their silver bases do look intentional.<\/p>\n

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I recently found this sharply cut small footed dish at an antiques shop in New Jersey. Although my gut was telling me\u00a0that\u00a0the hallmarked silver base was not a replacement I purchased it anyway. It seems that old habits die hard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe learn from failure, not from success!\u201d Bram Stoker, Dracula Well said, Mr. Stoker. Over the years, I have purchased a handful of items which, at the time, appeared to have\u00a0inventive repairs. But upon closer inspection, I discovered they were not\u00a0make-do’s. Here are a few of my mistakes that I eventually grew to love and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[32,44,17],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal","tag-glass","tag-metal-base","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11331,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions\/11331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}