Wood That It Were YZ
Something occurred to me the other day - something of which I've been aware for very many years but which I've never consciously considered as a way to assess YZness. Potential YZ buyers may find it useful, particularly those with little or no experience of examining the pieces.
If a YZ ashtray has the tray made of oak, it's very, very, very, very unlikely to be YZ. That also tends to apply to all other YZ pieces (but omit 'very,very,very').
That shouldn't be too surprising. YZ sales were built on four things: the humour and functionality of their design, the novelty and attractiveness of the recently developed brightly coloured resins, the perfect craftsmanship of their construction - and the exotic quality of the materials used. Oak simply wasn't considered exotic enough.
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