Glass Chatroom Board

gail it is always a pleasure to hear from you and things are going quite well. i am packing my glass for a move.

irenem you cannot imagine the pleasure and comfort and Warmth when you put on a pair of socks you have knitted. if you are so inclined, try the library (or book store) for a book on how to knit 2 socks at the same time on two circular needles or one long circular needle. i am such a procrastinator that otherwise i would have a drawer full of sock.

hello, everyone.

helen that sounds like a no fun way to spend an afternoon, but if your swallowing improves it was worth it.

irenem after 10 years of trying, i have finally taught myself how to knit socks, but i only use wool blends because i want machine wash… i cannot abide the feel of acrylic yarn.

evening, y'all.
a friend who works for lee county animal control says that july 5th is the busiest they ever are. (she also says that a couple of drops of 'rescue remedy' found at any health food store helps many dogs.) my dogs, buck and slick are horrified of thunder and lightning (they consider themselves to be the only survivors of hurricane charley) but fireworks only marginally and gunfire not at all. i can wipe them down with a dryer sheet to reduce static electricity buildup on their coats, which from my reading causes as much anxiety as the noise and light show and they can go to sleep during the worst thunder and lightning. i read about the deadly toxicity of dryer sheets but i have used them for 30 years and as far as i can tell, they have only made me fat; i am not feeling any further side effects.
and i am a gun toting nra member. that being said, i hate the sale of fireworks. i live in extreme south florida, which is subject to go up in a puff of smoke at any moment. there have been many explosions and deaths during the 4th of july 'celebrations' and i have owned horses, who are often terriified with the noise and light for all of my life. i am down to horse, who is totally fearless but i still hate the possibility of some idiot setting fire to the whole neighborhood tinderbox or just terrifying my neighbors' less fearless horses.

stepping genteelly off soapbox.

happy birthday, tony!
and many more

goodnight george and penny.

everything about that movie was amazing. i have friends who throw a halloween party every year and show 'young frankenstein'. i always wanted to be able to do my hair like madeline khan's (ala elsa lanchester) with the white streaks.

mine, too.

katie i just poured this chardonnay and now it is all over my monitor.

amen on the usps. i pack my stuff as if it is going to be handled by gorillas, because that may very well be the case, and still this one certain lady wants to snarl. actually, she is the postmistress (Frau Blucher) and she snarls if she even has to come out of her little office. my friends at the post office (my across the west fence neighbor is also my mail carrier) tell me that insurance is not worth the trouble because of what hoops the post office puts you through if you try to claim.

Gail Thanks for looking on those cocktail stems. I can just see Dorothy Parker gulping sipping a martini out of one.

happy birthday, julie!

kick up your heels.

hi, y'all. a limoges maven friend of mine has questions about some stems. They are 4 1/2" tall, 3 3/4" across top, 2 5/8" across bottom. we know this board will know if anyone does. thanks in advance
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/ginnyrose0/stem4.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/ginnyrose0/stem3.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/ginnyrose0/stem2.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/ginnyrose0/stem1.jpg

hi, shelly. it is a lovely piece. i would describe it as transfer (the cherubs have too much the same face to be hand painted) with hand gilding and 'aerography' (early airbrushing technique which could go from cobalt to white and back to cobalt, commonly used on antique french enamelware as well as pottery of the same period.) hope this helps. good luck.

happy thanksgiving, y'all.

beautiful table, fran.

i forgot to put vanilla extract in the lime glaze for the key lime pound cakes, but they will be ok.

marty - oh, how i love webster.

evening, y'all.

a friend has her anna pig (a pig shaped pottery bourbon flask with a cork in its, um, derierre) up for auction on http://www.glswrk-auction.com, and while i was wandering around their site open mouthed, i thought some of you glassies might want to look. it isn't all ugly little brown pottery pigs. the glass and bottles are amazing, and it was a real education for me since everything is identified and dated.

oh, my. y'all have really gussied up the place.

evening, y'all.

bob in ky it's beautiful. it reminds me of what atlanta must have looked like when sherman set fire to it.

decoqueen i'd think that's a very good price. i see just the inserts, like i have, listed on ebay for $45 all the time. and the tire is the hardest part to find.

evening y'all.

i think every tire company must have made the rubber tire ashtray with glass insert. i have a uranium glass goodrich silvertowns insert without its tire (circa 1936). jimd is right. the first thing to go was the tire.

thanks, gail. at least i know i am calling them the right thing.

here is a shot of the lid of the first powder jar.
lid

evening, y'all.

from someplace other than photobucket (thanks carl)

as usual i appreciate any help you can give me with pattern, maker, and anything else. am i even correct in calling these powder jars?

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powder jar with celluloid lady
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morning, y'all.

gail thanks for the woodchuck info. they are so chubby, i can see how they might wind up in the oven.

fran we have armadillos galore, and i am not far from manatee park. manatees love the very warm river water that comes out of the florida power and light plant. i have never understood how sailors could mistake them for mermaids. those men had been at sea far too long.

fran i'm not sure what they are either, since they don't venture down into extreme south florida. i am familiar with the tongue twister, and i have seen the commercial, but the woodchuck himself remains a mystery.

goodnight, y'all. it is almost time for the twilight zone and i have to take out my contacts and floss.

um, phar lap the movie. phar lap was the most famous australian race horse. seven letter names are considered very lucky in horse racing.

julie a 'new to them' disease can wipe out a species. sort of like when the spaniards came here and destroyed the caloosa indians. they weren't conquered: they were destroyed by measles and various other unknown diseases to which they had no immunity.

i love horse racing, although i understand that it is very hard on the horse. when i was way younger and way, way thinner, i used to gallop race horses. there is nothing like it as far as the adrenalin rush goes. i cry every time i watch phar lap. i read recently that he was probably a victim of arsenic poisoning.

good for the devils. i also admire your country for its long quarantine on imported dogs, since you don't have rabies, either.

julie, we don't have kangaroos, either.

bears are omnivoric opportunists.

evening, y'all.

Love the bear pics. A friend of mine was held hostage in his house all night one night because a visiting black bear discovered the refrigerator under his carport that he kept filled with cans of soda and juice boxes for his grandkids. he said he wasn't sure if the bear was biting into them or opening them with his claws, but that the cans made a loud hiss every time he opened one and there was a huge sticky mess the next morning. and he was more worried about the bear cutting his mouth on the cans than anything else.

oops. looks like mike beat me to it.

hi, mike.

good afternoon.

bob in ky with all those flowing lines and plant forms you could call it art nouveau. the phillips head screw was invented by henry phillips in the early 30s.

leah my printing is always 1/4" or 1/8", but since i had to go with the flow, i am also at home on every version of autocad since the dark ages. like your husband, i prefer the pencil.

gail that lamp base is beautiful.

bob those candleholders are killer bee.

suzy i'm a draftsman and i believe in using only one case, upper or lower, but never both. and sometimes wow is the only description that fits.

evening, y’all.

i just spent hours trying to list one stone age paleo-indian artifact. it seems ebay does not allow you to mention native american artisans or use the word indian unless you give their name and tribe. unfortunately, it has been 8,000 years and his name was probably something like ugg and i don’t know the tribe. they make it so hard sometimes. they really are trying to weed us and our musty old antiques out in favor of the fancy new chinese stuff.

i’m going to scroll and look at beautiful old glass and soothe my soul.

evening, y'all.

great peachblow site, gail. thanks. i have a hard time getting my mind around that one; there seem to be so many shades of peach.

i would say 20s more than 30s. uranium glass predates depression glass.

modern technology. hocking cigar ashtray shown in 1932 catalog. hmw2 page 141, upper left. i have always felt that the solid box match holders were earlier, but have no proof.

evening, y'all.

suzy also be on the lookout for the more new fangled version with a slit in the middle of the box holder, so that the box could slide down, or book matches could be inserted into the slit. these ashtrays come from a time when smoking was glamorous and good for your health and everyone was encouraged to smoke.

fran, you make me want to unpack my mother's candlewick butter dish; i know that any brand of butter would taste better in it.

evening, y'all. just dropping in for my 'what am i going to learn today?' run.

belated happy birthday, janice
belated happy anniversary, don and laura
fran, i am happy that you have such a good patient, and that he is on the mend.

evening, y'all. oh, how my heart sings looking at all this glass.

congratulations to y'all with the great sales. i read your copy and luck had very little to do with it.

my show and tell for tonight, where i show and y'all tell me amazing things and i am forever grateful, deals with really old glass. i bought these pieces for first century roman, as a tear vial and a rose bowl from a dealer i would have trusted with my life in 1980. my own research has led me to believe that each is properly called an unguentarium (yuck). the 'rose bowl' has a smooth neck and beads at the shoulder and impressed squares on the body for about two thirds down. i have also read that unguentaria used to hold poisonous or caustic things were not smooth sided, so the roman wouldn't grab the bad stuff by mistake, sort of an early take on a poison bottle. as always, i so appreciate your knowledge and help.

tear vial 1
tear vial 2
tear vial 3
rose bowl 1/
rose bowl 2
rose bowl 3

i won't be able to sleep tonight because there is a third blue ashtray, and i don't even smoke.

gail, i see it now, after i had to go get my reading glasses to read that tiny print. i've got the salad bowl. can you imagine packing dishes in a barrel?

thanks, don. that's early enough to suit me. 🙂

thanks, bob. i have 2/3rds of the set then; bet i never find a blue one.

thank you, gail. i have my mama's candlewick oval snack tray and cup set. whenever it was her turn to host the ladies' club she always used it and served russian tea. if i close my eyes i can smell the cloves. i bought some pieces i thought were candlewick pattern, but i now realize that many of those pieces just had beads.

thank you, don. that's it. are all the pieces shown marigold? it is colored darker the way the pitcher is and with no ig mark. any idea what year? it isn't shown in the imperial section in my hmw2.

good evening, y'all.

as always, i need some help with glass id.

the ashtray? is 5" from outside ball to outside ball. i have the same one in pink with a 7" diameter, but an old glass head form full of old marbles is sitting on it. all i know is that lots of companies made things that looked like candlewick.
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i was told the pattern on the bowl when i bought it. something and medallion, maybe button and medallion? anyhow that is all i know.
bowl 1
bowl 2

any light you could shed would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

happy birthday, jim. i hope you find a covered animal dish you don't already have.

gilded.

evening, y'all.

scott looking at your chrysthanthemum sprig makes my mouth water.

does there reach a point on an old piece of glass where too much of its original paint is missing? the paint seems so secondary to the brilliant workmanship of the glass. sometimes it is like they guilded the lily.

hi, Julie. i so much enjoy your posts. i will probably dream about your shell and coral bowl tonight.

evening, y'all.

i'm so excited about how much i've learned. you folks are something.

reen and Helen hello. photobucket is free and it works here and on the ebay boards.

Gail, you da bomb.

talking to y'all is not only more fun than a whole afternoon at the liebury, it is eons more informative. oh, how i love the net.

JimD when i think of baltimore, i think of seafood. are there any marine CAD's?

thanks, Tom. you're 3 for 3. if that ever happens to me, i try to remember to buy a lottery ticket. i try to remember a lot of things. and it gets more and more difficult.

JimD it's beautiful, but my favorite part is the wings. they are so beautiful and delicate and are turned inside out.

Don of course my HON is a fake, but it also taught me to read ebay auctions very carefully.

oh, how cool. thanks Gail. i have an HON and didn't even know it.

while the muse is upon y'all, let me ask for a couple of more id's. anything you can contribute will be greatly appreciated. all i know about them is blue milk glass, and they aren't even the same color blue.

the 4" diameter footed berry bowl? has a vine motif, leaf and then a berry or bud. the footed bottom has a nice rayed design that does not show through to the bottom of the bowl. i always thought that was a nice touch, to make the bottom pretty for no one else except whoever washed it.

the second piece is (i think) a dresser tray. it had some vestiges of gold paint when i got it, but i have had it a long time. it is only marked 7 on the bottom.

thanks again.

jimD hi. i dogpiled cad first, because i am so pitifully ignorant about the kind of glass y'all are so knowledgeable about , but oh, do i have a good time in here reading and looking at pictures. 🙂 being a CAD designer, i knew dogpile had let me down. what please is CAD as it pertains to glass? i didn't know abc colors, either. all i can recognize reliably is depression glass. thanks.

thank you, Tom. i've been wondering for a long time.

now i feel like a bad mama for ever doubting him. (how come everybody else is crystal and you're blue?) i just apologized to him on the way to the refrigerator.

good afternoon, y'all.

my off the wall glass question of the day concerns the dog with hat toothpick made by the belmont glass company, circa 1885. all the ones i've ever seen except for the one i own were crystal. mine is blue, and although i bought it for a real one 40 years ago from a reputable dealer, when i read later in kovel's that they had been reproduced, i began to doubt mine. (as an afterthought i realized that it would have been far classier to take out the toothpicks, but he is a working model.)

dog1
dog2

then today, when i was wandering in the pattern glass museum (scroll all the way down) i found the belmont glass company ice cream set and two of the inserts are the same color glass as my dog. does anyone know if belmont made the dog with hat in other glass than crystal?

thanks.

http://www.patternglass.com/mus5/museum5.htm

good morning, y'all. (just barely still morning)

george pennybear is a perfect name for a dachshund. they are as brave as lions. my father had one and she was too short to see in the full length mirror, so she couldn't tell that she wasn't a giant.

george, she's lovely. what kind (kinds) is she?

evening, y'all.

today i studied my one american bowl and my several cubist pieces and i can see the difference now. thanks, gail and george

thanks, gabla. i have always wondered.

good morning.

while y'all are on the subject of mold transfers, does anyone know if jeannette's cubist molds were transferred to fostoria for american? i've only ever seen cubist in a few pieces, but those pieces looked exactly like american.

evening, y'all.

an earthquake must strike fear into the heart of a glass collector.

i only know hurricanes.

thank you gail and mary and everybody. it is black aurora borealis.

i will be more careful and use descriptions instead of numbers.

thank you for your direction.

i think it is not Aurora Borealis ( gail, dogpile.com did not correct your spelling and they are very picky) but i am still looking.

scott i am from south georgia and moved further south and they don't even let us have basements. good luck with yours and thanks for the hep.

scott i think this was made as irridized jewelry. the beads are very smooth and uniform.

Gail i am looking for Aurora Borealis as we speak.

thanks, y'all.

evening, y'all.

here she comes with a question again:

i have some carnival glass jewelry and would love to know more, or anything about it. i just learned how nearly impossible it is to photograph. it glitters like nothing i've ever seen. nothing is marked. the bracelet is missing two beads and appears to be strung on something similar to old fishing line. i've worn either the choker or the bracelet, but if you put all of this stuff on at one time, you are a traffic hazard. thanks.

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oh, gail, you will always get lit up about it, alas.

@songbreeze - gail, i feel your pain. i still remember the lady who sold me my first and only piece of fake roseville.

and i know that i just mentioned listing a piece with a bullet hole, but i am honestly not quitethat radical.

actually, my post reminds me of the signs my brother and his best bud would use when hitchhiking home form college in the late 60s: 'don't be scared. we are nice boys.'

evening, y'all. i so love looking at your glass.

@decoqueen thank you so much for the suggestions. so far nothing has helped, but i have learned that wd40 is not deadly to silver, it has enough space that water can leak between the cobalt liner and the silver bowl and i am not done trying. hhhhhhhhhh. i wonder if i could list it with a bullet hole.

evening, y'all, and happy labor day. after monday we are supposed to put on all our fall clothes and just burn up.

i have a question about a cobalt glass insert for a genova sterling salt cellar. It sits in the silver bowl crookedly: higher on one side than the other and it does not come out no matter how i polish the silver bowl, which is a tedious task in the humidity capital of the world. were they made to slip out? is mine jammed?

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some people should only have stainless steel, and glass, of course.

i have been having to wipe the drool off my keyboard looking at some of your glass collections.

and i was delighted to see that maine finally got its power back and was none the worse for wear. the media didn't talk about maine at all.

thanks for your help.

evening, y'all.

hi, mary - nice to meet you. your glass is breathtaking. handsome dog, too. border collie?

has anyone heard any news from maine? i haven't seen anything on the net and the rest of new england looks horrifying. i pray they are just sitting up there with a few downed power lines and nothing worse.

Hi, Shelly.

i have also been told that bleach weakens pottery,

good morning, y'all.

Gail an antique porcelain maven friend of mine swears by denture cleaning tablets and has made a believer out of me. get the dollar store or wal-mart brands. the tablets are also good for taking hard water stains off of glass, cleaning jewelry, sinks and toilets.

bob, those mugs are killer bee.

and before i wear out my welcome:
i have nearly photographed myself into a straight jacket today trying to take pictures of an old white house (clear) vinegar jug. it doesn't show on white. it doesn't show on black. it doesn't show on gray; it just doesn't show, but it has a picture of the white house and everything. how do you get clear to photograph?

y'all rock. thank you so much. before posting the pics i was thinking nobody is going to recognize this old thing. silly me. i have been properly put in my place.

good evening, glassies.

i would appreciate any help you could give me on this candle holder. the candle holding part is shiny and the inside of the saucer is satin and it all irridizes into a nice rose color.

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thanks.

i am so sorry to hear that lucy is gone. she was so full of joy and laughter.

equines have such elephantine memories; it makes it hard to undo what a previous owner has done.

thank you for the help on the vases. i have not found the exact ones, but i have found several fenton vases with the same tops.

evening, y'all. i would so appreciate your input on these vases. i've owned them 30 years, and they were old looking when i was given them. they do not appear in hmw1 or 2. my trying to post html may end tragically.

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thank you.