Restoration Cost of Copper Luster

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One thing you'll find when your buying copper luster is a lot of people over the years have tried to do when I shown you an example here and I'll show you to one more time. People that repair these items and don't do a very good job so one of things when you collecting this you want to watch out for is restoration that's done poorly. It really affects the value and another thing to consider is if your going to buy a piece that chipped or cracked rather or not the value of the piece worn having restoration. Restoration is really expensive it's not something that your going to want to invest on $150 into a pot like this that's only worth $35 to $55 so when buying a piece like this or any other pitcher even at this size you have to consider the value of the piece and what would be the cost to restore it. So those are things to consider when your going out and your collecting these this type of pottery. Because your going to find a lot of these with chips and cracks it's going to be very tempting to buy but if you want to collecting to hold it's value I would highly recommend that you don't buy chips and cracks or anything that's been restored. Or have any of the intentions to restoring them unless there unusual very rare maybe historical piece or a piece with scenery in it thats much earlier that has a higher value. That might be a reason to collecting and restore and other than that these common pieces that you find out that they are all the time if it has chips and cracks in it restoration is not even a consideration unless your planning on vesting in it. If it has maybe a sentimental value on the family member and you want to keep it and it really bothers you to see a crack or a chip in it you can have it restored that's a possibility but for retail value it's not necessarily the best thing to do. So that's something to think about when your looking at copper luster and your considering chips and cracks.

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