{"id":2266,"date":"2016-03-20T00:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2016-03-20T00:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:33:24","slug":"collecting-tatting-shuttles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/collecting-tatting-shuttles\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Tatting Shuttles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The photos shows what my tatting shuttle collection looks like.\u00a0 This is the glass case that I have and the reason why I didn’t buy any of the metal\/glass boxes I found recently in The Pottery Barn store.<\/p>\n

I have had this glass\/metal box for several years now.\u00a0 I prompted my husband to buy it for me as a Mother’s Day present from this kids about 10-15 years ago.\u00a0 It was for sale in a Hallmark store.\u00a0 I actually got something that I wanted and liked that year for Mother’s Day!<\/p>\n

I don’t consider myself a true tatting shuttle collector.\u00a0 I first started looking for shuttles about 30 years ago in antique stores while my husband I were traveling.\u00a0 I seemed always be there ‘the day after’ a really beautiful\/unique one had sold previously.\u00a0 Later, I found out that my tatting friend Cindy Costantinou was probably the one who had gotten them! But I kept looking in the late 80’s and as the years progressed started seeing the prices of antique tatting shuttles rise quite dramatically. At one point when I had found a rather beautiful, but pricey, tatting shuttle and was contemplating its purchase, my husband told me that I needed to decide whether I was a ‘collector’ or not.\u00a0 I walked away from the purchase of that shuttle with the realization that I was a ‘Tatter’ not a ‘collector’. That decision saved me from spending a lot of money on a true tatting shuttle collection.\u00a0 However, I still enjoyed (and still do today) the hunt for tatting shuttles and will occasionally buy one IF<\/em> the price is reasonable.<\/p>\n

I am fairly pleased still today that I am not a true shuttle collector.\u00a0 The high prices that antique tatting shuttles (and other needlework tools) were going for in the late 80’s\/early 90’s is not being realized today.\u00a0 The other issue I see with collecting antique tatting shuttles from an investment perspective is that there doesn’t seem to be a reference guide with prices that antique dealers and collectors can use (at least with my knowledge of the industry about 10-15 years ago).\u00a0 Sadly my friend, Cindy C. has passed away. Her brother has her collection.\u00a0 I am sure that he is not able to get the value that she paid for each piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photos shows what my tatting shuttle collection looks like.\u00a0 This is the glass case that I have and the reason why I didn’t buy any of the metal\/glass boxes I found recently in The Pottery Barn store. I have had this glass\/metal box for several years now.\u00a0 I prompted my husband to buy it … Continue reading Collecting Tatting Shuttles<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}