All of the works have been purchased from several of

the master artists on the island.

If you appear affluent, after your visit to the main

gallery, you will be taken to see the pieces done by the

house maestro.

The pieces will be significantly large

glassworks, attractive, and often quite luring. If you look

closely you will find a glass seal on each piece--- the seal is

your assurance this is a unique one-of-a-kind work

the maestro will never repeat--- take this with a big

grain of salt!  Because you will very likely see the exact

piece sold in Plaza St. Mark, for much less, but without the

seal.

If you ask to the factory, "Why would you pay 3 or 4

times more for this piece than one in you saw at Plaza St.

Mark?' They will happily assure you this seal makes the

work unique in-and-of-itself, because the pieces in Plaza

St. Mark don't have this very special seal. Personally, I

don't know if this seal is really worth 3 to 4 times the value

of the artwork, but I could be wrong.

Like many tourist destinations Venice and Murano are

definitely taking advantage of tourists.  In general, the

values at these factories are tremendously inflated with

prices doubling and quadrupling those in the Plaza

St. Mark. A scary thought when you remember the prices

in Plaza St. Mark are at least double those in the U.S.