Now I just hafta tell you a “story” about broken pottery. I once bought a “box lot” of junk for $3 or $4. In it was a Shawnee “corn pattern” sugar bowl with a broken lid that had been crudely glued back together. I sat it on the shelf in my shop and put $15 on it figuring that no one would buy it but sooner or later I might find a good lid for it and would then re-price it.
But one day this gal walked in, spotted it, snatched it right up and was about to pay me for it, no questions asked. So I says to her, … “you do know the lid was broken in half and re-glued, don’t you”. Her answer was, ……. “That is exactly why I’m buying it, …. it looks just like the one my Mother had that my sister got hold of before I did”. cheers