Raiding grandma’s cupboards is no longer enough.
, the weekly show he hosts, the 47-year-old Smith, sporting a bow tie, kicks off a conversation about hunting for Pyrex, styling Pyrex, and selling Pyrex. Smith, whose works full time as a high-school teacher, is an upbeat narrator for the hundreds who regularly join in, and along with discussions of Easter displays and Pyrex from around the world, he sometimes hosts sales, offering pieces he finds on his trips around the country — some of which he takes just to shop for Pyrex.
If there is a public representative for Pyrex fans, Smith is definitely one of them, considered both an expert and a friend to all Pyrex lovers. Still, many collectors were surprised to see the Lucky in Love bowl that sold for $22,000 make its debut on Smith’s Instagram account. It turned out that the auction winner had backed out of actually paying the final price, and the seller had offered it at a private sale to a handful of bidders, which Smith won .
Collectors of rare Pyrex also hunt for misprints, pieces produced for a specific restaurant, and samples that never went into production. But ultimately, value is in the eye of the beholder. “There is the camp of people that won’t pay more than 20 bucks for a piece,” says Southerland. When I asked the members of several Pyrex Facebook groups what their most coveted Pyrex was, I rarely saw the same answer twice.
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