The Perils of Posting 2

Earlier this month I decided to act on a liking I had for a specific WGP vase - Scheurich's 517-30 (the version with a bagel top) - and collect as many of them as possible (a kind of collection within a collection).



The problem is that collecting a specific vase type is not an easy thing - that is without going to eBay. So I went to eBay and bid on a handful of them. And won three. Bood news me. That is until the first one turned up in a dozen or more large pieces and a whole bunch of tiny little (sharp) shards.



Couple of days later another arrived. This time incredibly well packed, including inside the vase and everything was intact (it was in a box with two other vases) and so the score for the shape went to 1-1.



So everything came down to the final vase. And unfortunately, as you can see in the picture below, the news was not good.







I think I'm going to give up on having vases of this shape sent by post - the odds don't seem to be in my favour.



Okay, to be honest I've pretty much given up on having any vases posted, barring the couple of dealers I've mentioned before in Germany and the Netherlands who go for mega-sized packaging.