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How do I price potential memorabilia??

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Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 8:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone know how I learn the price of potential memorabilia (or maybe it is junk)???

My Mom sent me an email asking me to get info for my Aunt. ( my Mom must think I am a computer geek or something. I have no idea about these things):


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Can you find out about 4 whiskey glasses that were mothers.They are from the convention of 1960 of Ladies Orange Lodge Benevolent Society of Canada. The glasses have the orange lodge logo on them and title.




Anyone have any ideas of where I can begin to research this ?? I know nothing about memorabilia or auctions or collectibles or even junk!

PS The Orange Lodge is a Protestant lodge my Gram belonged to while she raised us Catholic grandchildren. TEE HEE HEE. we were never allowed to mention our religion around lodge members!


Max
Member

08-12-2000

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan, you can do a search on eBay for shot glasses (if that's the size they are) or highball glasses or whatever and see what comes up. Chances are you won't find something with that specific logo, unless that's a REALLY popular lodge in Canada, but you can get an idea of value.

The other thing you can do is go to the library and look in the collectables reference section for books about that kind of collectable.

There's a market for just about everything, you just need to do some sleuthing to find it. EBay is always a good place do a quick check.

Good luck! :-)

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Max. I just checked Ebay for Orange Lodge and they have stuff but no glasses. Now I will check under glasses and see what happens. I didn't realize that the Library would have that info. maybe I will go there tomorrow.

THanks for your good advice :-):-)

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan, I googled the name of that lodge and found historical listings for local lodges of that group all over Canada. Must have been quite a popular ladies group, what with their own whiskey shot glasses and all...

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 3:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL. yep...I am surprised you haven't got any in Michigan, Babyruth :-)

I am ashamed to say (ashamed since I am catholic) that it is the Orange made famous by the famous Orange parades in Ireland (hence the whiskey glasses I assume) when the Protestants still to this day parade to celebrate the defeat of the catholics centuries ago...and riots seem to ensue each year when they do so!

In Canada, as far as I know it is much like the Elks and moose and kiwanas etc those lodges/clubs that do charity work. At least I think so..being catholic, I have never been at a meeting. When I was a child we were not allowed to tell any of Gram's member friends that we were catholic!!

Starshine40
Member

07-30-2002

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan, if any of the Lodges are still active you might contact them to see if they would have an idea of the value. Also, I would find out when they were made, are they still making them, etc.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Star. Since there are some Orange lodges still around, I am going to email them and see.:-):-)