A Short Historical pastAntique reproductions have abounded around the market for as several many years as there have been traditional home decorations. As earlier because the 1960′s, reproductions of aged pattern glass examples from the late 1800′s started to appear in antique stores, markets and exhibits. This earlier onset of reproductions spurred a niche current market in the Antiques and Collectibles field.What occurred from the 1960′s spawned an incredible growth in reproductions not simply inside glass markets but in addition in virtually all specialty vintage and collectible markets including cast iron and pottery. In the earlier 1970′s, the Merritt family headed by Mary and Bob Merritt started out a person from the longest working reproduction wholesalers inside the USA, which later through a household dispute branched off into 1 of by far the most profitable company ventures within the Antique copy arena, referred to as Fred & Dottie’s, Inc.Up until the late 1970′s Merritts enjoyed somewhat of a monopoly until Fred Burkholder (son of Mary Merritt) and Dottie (Fred’s wife), both minority shareholders, broke away from Merritt’s after a bitter family members dispute. Fred and Dottie Burkholder formed Fred & Dottie’s, Inc. and began their own copy wholesale business enterprise just a few miles down the road from their former partners in enterprise.Within a few many years, the rivals were ferociously competing as more Copy wholesalers began to spring up throughout the USA. Ralph Lussino and his brother, John, friends and former customers of your Burkholder’s and Merritts threw their ‘hat inside ring’ and formed Castle Antiques and Reproductions.All three of these Reproduction wholesalers are still in Business as of this writing, although Castle is inside the process of liquidating their entire inventory and closing in late 2008.