And no way the prices are accurate for the Pyrex. If it was I would be able to buy a small third world country with what I have!!!
I was packing away my hutch this morning....because the imminent weekend of painting is nearly upon us...and here is what I found:
As you probably know, this is a Pyrex restaurant ware pattern: Green Fern.
How ever if you turn the bowl over this is what you see....A Fireking bowl with a Pyrex pattern? How crazy is that??? What hapened here? Did Anchor Hockings decide to copy Pyrex? Did they share production facilities and a booboo happen? I don't know!
If you have info please share!
Other than that I cleaned and replaced itrems from the store, cleaned some Stephen King bookds and shrink wrapped them and started to make boxes of paperbacks to donate. We have a lot to do before we start to paint the living room/dining room/ hall (damn you open living!). Having big room is much harder to decorate!
Speaking of cleaning and packing...I emptied the hutch and I was able to fill 7 boxes of dishes! OMG! Wait till I empty the big Pyrex cupboard! LOL!
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I KNOW IT JUST GOES ALL OVER ME! Now theres just one more reason for them to jack the prices up... I can already tell you the next 2 trends that are going to affect things will be A) vintage Red handled kitchen appliances, and B)Pink lawn flamingos... oh and BTW I gave thanks to you on my latest blog post ;)
That story really pissed me off when I got wind of it. Now that it's considered trendy to do it, there will be no pyrex left for the folks who really have a deep love for the stuff.
Honestly, in NJ at least in my area they charge crazy prices for crap and Im not even kidding. I go to a junky thrift shop and a large bowl thats in crappy condition will have an 8$ sticker on it. The hell? That shop in cape may was worse - broken jadeite for retail... I think they just see pyrex and think anyone will buy anything... its worse at house sales put on my dealers... that square pyrex set thats rare, yeah but $50? when I have to crawl around in a dirty old basement for it and pick spiders out of my van for weeks?
PUL-EEEEZE
We went to an estate sale last wkend. I picked up 4 Pyrex dinner plates (milk white w/ 2 turquoise rings). I checked a couple to be sure they were Pyrex. Hubs was washing them that night and found that 1 was Anchor Hocking. They are the same size, pattern and color (but if you look close, the turquoise is off just a lil).
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