Online Business Startup - Vintage Glassware
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Vintage Glass Selling Requires New Methods
We have enjoyed fine glassware for a long time. My mother liked it and my uncle had an antiques shop that specialized in it. When we found Ebay in 1998 our collecting really took off. Now we are at the point where the house and garage are stuffed and we need to do something about it.
Like many others, the original idea was to enjoy collecting but then profit from reselling some or all of our glassware. However, buying is always so much more fun than selling!! If you have tried selling on Ebay you realize it takes time and effort to write good descriptions, take good pictures, and handle the packing, shipping and emails in a professional way.
Lately Ebay has become much less friendly to collectibles sellers. From where I sit it looks like these sellers will gradually be forced to find other venues from which to sell their products. This will be difficult, but already other sales sites are growing. We will be testing a variety of sites as places to profitably run an online glassware sales business.
American Glass MuseumAmericanGlassMuseum.com is where we plan to bring together some of our glass collections and pictures. The more we shop online the more glass companies we find. It’s amazing how mamy of these business have come and gone as resources, the … MORE>>> |
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Pilgrim GlassPilgrim-Glass.com is developed as a glass site which features pictures and a video showing a 2002 Pilgrim Glass Co. catalog. It also has close up pictures of several pieces of Pilgrim glass to provide visitors with a good idea of what it looked … MORE>>> |
Antique PaperweightsAntique-Paperweights.com is a starter site where we expect to explore in some detail the wonderful world of paperweights. A paperweight is really just an excuse to show off something pretty on your desk; although I suppose in the days before air … MORE>>> |
Bischoff GlassBischoffGlass.com Only 91 exact match searches, but it’s very popular on Ebay. Makes for some marketing challenges. 20090130 PR3 www |
Carnival GlassCarnival-Glass.org This was glass of the 1920’s & 1930’s that has gotten really valuable and really reproduced. Lots of it around but hold on to your wallet. 9,900 exact match searches |
Cased GlassCased-Glass.com was registered at a time when we thought the hyphen would make it easier for the search engines to parse the keywords in the domain name. Fortunately, we came to our senses before anyone registered the un-hyphenated name and registered |
Cobalt Blue Glass“CobaltBlueGlass.org*:http://cobaltglass.info Cobalt glass is a blue glass made by adding cobalt to the glass mixture. Blue is always a popular color so there is a lot of cobalt blue glass around; both old and new. 1,000 exact match searches 20090130 PR1 www |
Crackle GlassCrackle-Glass.com is made buy spraying hot glass with water and then fusing the results. It makes very pretty glass vases, pitchers, and other shapes to display in the window. In New Mexico, where we live, the bright sunshine sparkles on all … MORE>>> |
Cranberry GlassCranberryGlass.net has stayed popular with Google showing there are more than 14,000 searches per month for this term. Pilgrim Glass Co. had a very popular line of Cranberry glass years ago and many of these pieces are available on Ebay. The purple … MORE>>> |
CruetsCruets.org My mother collected cruets. They made an affordable gift for her when I was limited to profits from my paper route. 20090129 PR2 www-top p&e |
Custard GlassCustardGlass.com is a creamy yellow colored glass that for reasons unknown to me, was extremely popular for making souvenir items. It is also called uranium glass because uranium is what gives it it’s color. It also glows under a black light. ... MORE>>> |
Cut GlassCut-Glass.org Cut glass is lead glass crystal that has had patterns ground by hand into the surface. That makes it labor intensive and very special. |
Depression GlassDepression-Glass.org 20090130 PR3 www +UI WRG |
Dereume GlassDereumeGlass.com Dereume Glass was another of the many West Virginia handblown glass manufacturers who lived for a while and then went under in the 1970’s. From conversations with an Ebay seller who knew the founder they were apparently mostly a wholesale company ... MORE>>> |
Fenton GlassFenton-Glass.net This is an extremely collectible glass with thousands of auctions running at any time on Ebay. The website needs to additional work to provide pages with automatic searches of the main categories and patterns of Fenton glass. |
Flint Glass |
Fostoria GlassFostoriaGlass.info is a defensive registration for FostoriaGlass.com. On that site I have placed complete copies of a 1936 Fostoria glass catalog plus a 1901 catalog. Time will tell if a dot com with a hyphen or a dot info without a hyphen … MORE>>> |
Glass OwlsGlassOwls.com Glass Owls were frequently made by the handblown glass companies and lots of people like to collect owl themed collectibles. |
Goofus GlassGoofusGlass.com Goofus Glass is painted glassware which was popular for a while in the 1920’s and 1930’s. It’s problem is that paint doesn’t stick well to glass and tends to flake off. That is not helped when tidy housekeepers clean the pieces … MORE>>> |
Hamon Glass CompanyHamon-Glass.com Hamon Glass Company eventually spawned at least two or three hand blown glass makers. It was one of the West Virginian, USA glass companies but there were four brothers in the family. They are drifted from one company to another, ... MORE>>> |
Hobnail GlassHobnailGlass.info is another of our specialty glass websites. Hobnail is a type of glass which has been used by many glass manufacturers. especially for milk glass. There is a ton of it out there and Ebay has thousands of auctions for … MORE>>> |
Imperial Glass – CandlewickImperial-Glass.info were most famous for their Candlewick pattern. On this website we have published all seventy pages of their 1966 catalog. Many of the original prices were penciled in by the catalog’s original owner. 1966 must have been the height of … MORE>>> |
Indiana GlassIndiana-Glass.com Plus IndianaGlass.info |
InkwellsInkwells.biz Not all inkwells were made of glass, but many were, so I put this domain in with the glass websites. Inkwells are one of those leftovers from a bygone time that make really nice antiques. Since some were made for display on … MORE>>> |
Kanawha Glass CompanyKanawhaGlass.com Kanawha Glass Company was one of many West Virginia, USA handblown glass companies that flourished for many years but then failed in the 1970’s. Their glassware is both collectible and affordable. |
Lead Glass |
Mercury Glass |
Milk GlassMilk-Glass.org is a website designed to help visitors find the milk glass items they are looking for on Ebay. We are considering moving to contents to MilkGlass.info which became available after we built the first site. Milk glass has been … MORE>>> |
Murano GlassMuranoGlass.us will be a glass collector website linked to/from AmericanGlassMuseum.com. Murano glass is a popular and famous Italian glass about which I know almost nothing. Many Murano glass items are sold on Ebay so i will get the site set up and do … MORE>>> |
Opalescent GlassOpalescentGlass.com Opalescent glass refers to a particular style of hand blown glass that was made by many manufacturers. It is very collectible and still affordable. |
Peach Blow GlassPeach-Blow.com Peach blow glass was the name given to a line of handblown glass by several companies. One company had a lot of success with it first. Other companies noticed this and came out with their own lines which carried the … MORE>>> |
Rainbow Glass Company |
Satin Glass |
Slag Glass |
Toothpick HoldersToothpickHolders.org Toothpick holders are not all made out of glass, but most of the ones we have are, so this was a good place to put this toothpick domain. 20090129 PR2 www |
Vaseline Glass |
Viking Glass CompanyViking-Glass.com was a West Virginia, USA hand blown glass company that flourished for man yrears and and then went out of business. Their many pretty products are still common on Ebay. If you don’t like to water plants, this glassware makes … MORE>>> |