Mont Joye Glass Collection, ca. 1900
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GUEST:
My mom was in France last year and was spending about a month there, and one of the things she wanted to do was visit several of the flea markets. And so she found the large one at one flea market, and then the other two at a different flea market while she was there. She used to be a florist, so she really is drawn to flowers. And kind of goes in with the rest of her theme at home, and just really liked the flowers, so she came home with them.
APPRAISER:
Well, I'm so impressed with that. Did she explain to you what she paid for these?
GUEST:
She did. The big one was $180, and then the small purple vase was $75, and the cracker barrel was $65.
APPRAISER:
And that was at two different Paris flea markets.
GUEST:
Paris flea markets, correct.
APPRAISER:
Well, I kind of guessed that she probably liked flowers, and now you tell me she was a florist.
GUEST:
Florist, yeah.
APPRAISER:
So that makes some sense.
GUEST:
Yeah.
APPRAISER:
These happen to be from the late 19th century into the early 20th century.
GUEST:
Okay.
APPRAISER:
And they're Mont Joye.
GUEST:
Okay.
APPRAISER:
And that's a French company, actually Paris, France. A lot of Mont Joye is signed. These pieces are almost as much as not signed. These do have little remnants on the bottom of a little marking, but nothing we can read. This is all enamel work on very, very fine glass. They used beautiful glass.
GUEST:
So it's enamel, not painted then?
APPRAISER:
Well, enamel is a painted process.
GUEST:
Is paint, okay.
APPRAISER:
And then it has this nice ruffled... Almost, if you looked at the top of that, you would think of a rose bowl-type top. That's very unusual. Most of them are made with just a straight chop-off across the top.
GUEST:
Okay.
APPRAISER:
So this makes this one much more rare, and that's a 12-inch. This one's about eight-inch, a little more common, with pansies. These are irises, we decided.
GUEST:
Yeah.
APPRAISER:
And same type of glass. You can see the carry-through of the beautiful colors. Then we go on to the biscuit jar. Very unusual to have a wonderful biscuit jar like this, with this background of these leaves.
GUEST:
Yeah.
APPRAISER:
That's all enamel, again, irises. This is a pewter top right now, but it should be re-plated, silver-plated.
GUEST:
Okay.
APPRAISER:
You can see it's a little worn, but the outside should be this way.
GUEST:
Should be shiny like that.
APPRAISER:
So it'd be nice and shiny. She bought it at a flea market.
GUEST:
Correct.
APPRAISER:
We get asked all the time, "Where do you buy some things where you can maybe make a little bit of profit?" I think Mom might have done okay. So this particular piece, again, was... $180.
GUEST:
$180?
APPRAISER:
Because of this top and because of the size of this, for insurance, this would be about $700 to $800.
GUEST:
Oh, wow. She did do well.
APPRAISER:
She did do well. This one would be probably $200 to $400.
GUEST:
Okay.
APPRAISER:
Then you come to the little rare biscuit jar. And this could entertain a price in the $500 or $600 range.
GUEST:
Nice.
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