Price of eggs

[Webb Willmott]

I’m wondering if practice eggs are sold at craft fairs and how much the sell for. Or do you sell a bowl with eggs in it for a higher dollar or help the sale.

 

[Neil S]

Most of the galleries I've sold my work through over the years has a bowl near the cash register with an assortment of turned eggs in it. Occasionally one of my bowls has been commandeered for that. I don't know if that has helped egg sales, but it didn't help sell the bowl! ...

 

[John K Jordan]

I’m wondering if practice eggs are sold at craft fairs and how much the sell for. Or do you sell a bowl with eggs in it for a higher dollar or help the sale.

I give up: what's a practice egg?

I've turned a lot of eggs but they didn't take much practice, just a steady hand.


Once when I visited Graeme Priddle he took me over to the gallery where some of his stuff was displayed. He checked a bowl full of turned eggs to see how many had sold. Selling the eggs, not the bowl or the bowl full of eggs. I didn't look to see how the eggs were priced. I think he turned eggs since they were fun.

I do know of a small market for turned eggs - as decoy eggs to get certain birds to nest and lay their eggs in certain places. I've turned wooden guinea and peafowl eggs for decoys. However, commercial wooden decoy eggs are readily available and quite inexpensive. Just check Amazon.