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Title: How much does the value go down when item was fixed?
Post by: D.A. on January 26, 2009, 06:12:57 PM

I have two items that were broken and now are fixed.  An e-969/S Inarco peach colored ladies head planter  from 1963.  Her head apparently broke off and was repaired. I noticed a figure exactly like her was about $58 in good shape.  Are these figures worth anything when they've been repaired?   

I also have a Shawnee Jo-Jo the clown, great shape, but the seal's ball was glued back on. 

My mother-in-law passed away and we have to determine values on this property. We'd like to keep them in the family.

Thanks for any input.

Title: Re: How much does the value go down when item was fixed?
Post by: railman44 on January 27, 2009, 09:38:06 AM

The more major the repair the further the value drops.  Professionally repaired or not has a bearing too.  Most times on a glass or pottery object that really isn't rare, the value after a major repair drops the value nearly to nothing.  I'm sure there are exceptions, but this is the rule that I follow.

Title: Re: How much does the value go down when item was fixed?
Post by: KC on January 27, 2009, 12:36:48 PM

Can you post pics of the repair areas.  If you can see them clearly as repaired....then the value goes down considerably.  If a barely visibly hairline mark is available for the keen observer...the value lowers less.

Title: Re: How much does the value go down when item was fixed?
Post by: cogar on January 28, 2009, 07:41:48 AM

Now I just hafta tell you a “story” about broken pottery. I once bought a “box lot” of junk for $3 or $4. In it was a Shawnee “corn pattern” sugar bowl with a broken lid that had been crudely glued back together. I sat it on the shelf in my shop and put $15 on it figuring that no one would buy it but sooner or later I might find a good lid for it and would then re-price it.

But one day this gal walked in, spotted it, snatched it right up and was about to pay me for it, no questions asked. So I says to her, … “you do know the lid was broken in half and re-glued, don’t you”. Her answer was, ……. “That is exactly why I’m buying it, …. it looks just like the one my Mother had that my sister got hold of before I did”.  cheers

Title: Re: How much does the value go down when item was fixed?
Post by: antiquedieboldsafes.com on February 01, 2009, 12:37:18 PM

Quote from: cogar on January 28, 2009, 07:41:48 AM

Her answer was, ……. “That is exactly why I’m buying it, …. it looks just like the one my Mother had that my sister got hold of before I did”. 

You were plain lucky out there.. ;)

As for the topic, I guess with breakables, this is one perennial problem. And definitely an antique that has remained unbroken definitely holds much higher value...
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Title: Re: How much does the value go down when item was fixed?
Post by: cogar on February 01, 2009, 04:29:53 PM

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And definitely an antique that has remained unbroken definitely holds much higher value...

One exception to that rule that I knew of, of course that was several years ago, that a chip or two or even a small crack in a piece of Tennerton glass didn't seem to matter much to a collector of said. I have only ever owned 1 piece of it, a toothpick holder, and it still sits on a shelf in the kitchen.