The Queen of Salt and Pepper Shakers
Some days are more blessed than others and yesterday was a very blessed day for me. I meet Andrea Ludden who is an archeologist and has traveled the world. She is originally from Belgium and has had the great fortune to work with her daughter and husband for many years. You may have seen her on The Food Network where she has appeared many times.
Believe it or not we discussed salt for perhaps two hours. Did you know that salt is mentioned in the bible 31 times, it is also found in the book of Job and Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt? You may be asking why is that important to me. Well Andrea is perhaps the greatest collector of salt and pepper shakers in the world. Yes you guessed it she is the curator of the Salt and Pepper Museum in Gatlinburg Tennessee. Her museum contains more than 20,000 pairs of shakers. As I strolled from room to room the set od shakers became over whelming. Each type of shakers is displayed with like ones. There are dozen Penguins, 100 of Chef’s and animals and I couldn’t count the cars. They come from all over the world and she said the really valuable ones were stored.
She was a world of information like the fewer holes in a shaker means it is salt because in the USA salt is bad for you but in Europe it is just the opposite. Plastic shakers are the up and coming prizes in the shaker collectibles and she said this is because so many of them have been damaged. The few pieces the higher the price remember that.
This wonderful woman has more energy than a person has the right to and now she even wants to start another museum in Spain. I believe that a book might be forth coming in the near future and I will be there waiting for it. She has been a collector of the shakers for 25 years and the museum has been open for 7 years.
I ask her many questions but there were a few that she wouldn’t answer such as which shakers are the most valuable and what qwas her favorite. How ever she was forth coming with almost any other question I ask her.
To finish our interview after asking her why Salt and Pepper shakers and the answer surprised me “I collect them because of their creativity.” She did share that some sets have sold for over $100,000 but money wasn’t why she collected them.
There is a great deal on money to be made with these little sculptures and I think it should be important for you to become educated on them.
You can join the Daryle Lambert Antique and Collectible Club at http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/21incantiqueandcollectibles/Detail?no=1
Believe it or not we discussed salt for perhaps two hours. Did you know that salt is mentioned in the bible 31 times, it is also found in the book of Job and Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt? You may be asking why is that important to me. Well Andrea is perhaps the greatest collector of salt and pepper shakers in the world. Yes you guessed it she is the curator of the Salt and Pepper Museum in Gatlinburg Tennessee. Her museum contains more than 20,000 pairs of shakers. As I strolled from room to room the set od shakers became over whelming. Each type of shakers is displayed with like ones. There are dozen Penguins, 100 of Chef’s and animals and I couldn’t count the cars. They come from all over the world and she said the really valuable ones were stored.
She was a world of information like the fewer holes in a shaker means it is salt because in the USA salt is bad for you but in Europe it is just the opposite. Plastic shakers are the up and coming prizes in the shaker collectibles and she said this is because so many of them have been damaged. The few pieces the higher the price remember that.
This wonderful woman has more energy than a person has the right to and now she even wants to start another museum in Spain. I believe that a book might be forth coming in the near future and I will be there waiting for it. She has been a collector of the shakers for 25 years and the museum has been open for 7 years.
I ask her many questions but there were a few that she wouldn’t answer such as which shakers are the most valuable and what qwas her favorite. How ever she was forth coming with almost any other question I ask her.
To finish our interview after asking her why Salt and Pepper shakers and the answer surprised me “I collect them because of their creativity.” She did share that some sets have sold for over $100,000 but money wasn’t why she collected them.
There is a great deal on money to be made with these little sculptures and I think it should be important for you to become educated on them.
You can join the Daryle Lambert Antique and Collectible Club at http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/21incantiqueandcollectibles/Detail?no=1
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