I agree with you completely. The whole upcycled movement kills me when it does that to stuff.
Though it did allow me to buy a sterling silver pin from someone who had no idea what it was. She's "upcycled" it by gluing rhinestones on to it. I paid like $10 for it, took the rhinestones off with nailpolish remover, polished it, and it's work about 10 times what I paid.
I can see someone not knowing what they've got and thinking that by altering it, it will be more attractive to buyers (sort of). But in the case of the mad tin cutter, she listed them for sale on Etsy, where if she had taken the time to look at even one of the tins she had, she would have seen that she was sitting on a goldmine. At one time, she had access to a whole lot of them, but alas, they've been downgraded to and upcycle.
I had an entire set of little porcelain Mother Goose characters that were tucked into Red Rose tea boxes once upon a time, and one day, I just got fed up of moving them from a shelf to a curio to a drawer to a box, and I threw them in the garbage. Then found out the complete collection was going for $85.
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Though it did allow me to buy a sterling silver pin from someone who had no idea what it was. She's "upcycled" it by gluing rhinestones on to it. I paid like $10 for it, took the rhinestones off with nailpolish remover, polished it, and it's work about 10 times what I paid.
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I had an entire set of little porcelain Mother Goose characters that were tucked into Red Rose tea boxes once upon a time, and one day, I just got fed up of moving them from a shelf to a curio to a drawer to a box, and I threw them in the garbage. Then found out the complete collection was going for $85.
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