![]() ![]() “Until recently, dealers would discard broken or repaired pieces, never degrading the rest of their merchandise with anything less than perfect,” he explains. Shunned by most collectors, these cobbled-back-together “orphans of the antiques world” find a home in Andrew’s collection. Now-rusted, cracked, and patched-the unassuming little mug is one of New York designer Andrew Baseman’s favorite things in the world.Īndrew collects “ make-dos”: antiques that have undergone crude, home repairs. It took 46 metal staples and 6 metal bands to hold the mug together again, but someone fixed it-and the repair has held together for centuries. By modern standards, that should have been the end of mug. ![]() Or, at least, it used to be.Īlmost 200 years ago, someone dropped the clay mug and it shattered. ![]() For most antique dealers and collectors, this little 19th-century mug wouldn’t be worth a second look. ![]()
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