Post #78642 by tikijackalope on Tue, Mar 2, 2004 12:36 AM

Johnny Dollar noted:

gotta vintage japanese glass fishing float this weekend! price had dropped from $150 to $100. green glass, beautiful, about 12 inches diameter. i was pretty down with that.

I'm glad to see another price reference for these; I turned one down a couple weeks back for $85. The guy also had two more at $125 and $150. All were about 12" in diameter, of thick clear or green glass and had a small amount of water inside which he said was from decades of leakage. I doubt that and assume it was from condensation from the air blown inside being humid. The $150 ball had a symbol that looked like an "F" and its mirror image, back to back. It also had areas of a frosted appearance which he called "frostbite." The dealer said they were vintage Japanese and were found by a friend of his in Alaska. I don't tend to trust local flea market dealers to make authenticity judgements on such things (i.e. this table was across from one selling "Egyptian artifacts") but I was tempted...then I remembered what else $150 could buy and that I didn't know squat about drilling glass fishing floats so I went home.