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Summary: Copper luster: learn what it is and general characteristics in this free video clip about collecting antiques.
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Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
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Questions & AnswersCopper luster is made in the late 19th century its a cooper rust color to it you can see up here we have some examples of copper luster here with different color variations in it. With flowerer patterns in historical patterns I don't have any historical patterns to show you today but here over here if you look far down here on the camera you can see there's a patterns of event that are going on. But he historical patterns are probably the most sawed off after patterns and the most expensive so this is just a little sampling of copper luster from the late 19th century into the 20th century. So copper luster comes in a variety of shapes and sizes you'll find a lot of pictures there a lot of copper luster out there but in various conditions. A lot of times you'll find it in not such good conditions with lots of chips and cracks and lines in it, so today we're going to talk a little bit about all of the conditioning and the shapes and the sizes and the forms that you can collect.
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