@mary cxgirl MARY … that purple trim would be commonly known as ”amethyst stain”.

HI to EVERYONE! Hope that’s not too generic a greeting, but I’m pooped and headed for the recliner. 🙁

@mary cxgirl MARY ... thanks for the encouragement on my RL store. It's a bit more convaluted in the selling what with purchase orders etc. but well worth it not to have to jack my prices up to include "free" shipping. And not only not having to pay FVF on the item, but not having to pay it on the shipping too!

@10bbg10 HELEN ... hmmmmm, I don't know what pop-ups you were seeing on that site. I don't like pop-ups either.

@reen REEN .... teehee, yes I've been to a ton of places, is it any wonder I'm tired all the time? Still recuperating from all the travel... 🙂

@shellyrae37 SHELLY ... thanks so much for letting us know that AMBER is ok. I only list items I have right here in the house as when I go to write the descriptions I have to have the item in my hand to take the measurements and check for any flaws. Now my fear is just the reverse....forget I have it listed and take it to one of the malls!. 😮

@amber1986 AMBER ... well, as I scroll up the board, I see your post. So very glad that power is back up and you are well.

@gailmacphee GAIL MAC ... so sorry that I'm just no help on art glass and crackle glass. Hopefully someone will show up soon who can help. Lovely pieces.

HI to DON, KATIE, GEORGE, MARTY, and IRENE M.

@mainewildrose Sue, welcome back to the East Coast! How wonderful that you'll be able to enjoy your GD.

@mary cxgirl Mary, another figurine is the September Morn nymph, which Fenton made (it's based on a painting). I have the bowl and candleholders from Fenton's set, but the nymph costs a fortune the few times I've seen one on eBay. So I settled for an Imperial version of Bashful Charlotte which I got cheap. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7BvfV5SQwYdVWaqbPuPDEJ46WNkKOU7MjrZOZP_x8cU?feat=directlink

@mary MARYMELODEE ... I have Spencer's Glass Animal book and I have Bull's Flower Frogs for Collectors book. Love both books. Here is a web site that might help too. http://glasstreasurechest.com/ncc_flower_frogs/wildflowerfrogsFigural.htm

HI to DON, GEORGE, & JIM D.

@donscns DON ... ROTFLOL @ you helping Bob in KY downsize, yeah, right!

@10bbg10 HELEN ... Hope your DH got some remedy or relief from the doctor's visit.

@ver2us1 JANICE ... good to see you...it's been a while. Hope all is well.

@wattleihavenext JULIE ... sorry your last swap meet was a bit of a bust. Anymore scheduled soon?

@mary MARYMELODEE ... today's eCommerce AuctionByte had people commenting on the crazy eBay search.

@charper99 CHAR ... Wow! That's a terrific find! Goodonya!

@shellyrae37 SHELLY ... truer words never spoken...so easy to strip the bed and so very hard to get it made back up. 🙂

Hi to BOB, BILL, & NANCY P!

@george GEORGE ... Well, there is a good side to having rented the booth. I have a ton of inventory sitting around this house in every nook and cranny, so I've just been sitting here all evening tagging what I already have. I won't have any trouble filling up the booth once they get the shelving installed for me, and that should help me get my house back to some semblance of order. 🙂

@mary cxgirl MARY ... LOL...I'm far from organized. This makes 4 booths in 4 different towns..Yikes! I did have 5 and gave up 2 as it just was just too much work. Promised myself to stick with just the 3 booths...so much for my promises! 😀

@fyrqueen KATIE ... so glad your DD is doing better.

@donscns DON ... so glad, too, to hear you seem to be free of the eye problem.

@sellingthings MARTY ... hopefully you are in a win-win situation....either it's nothing or if any treatment is needed you can begin right away and nip it in the bud.

@kasi KASI ... so good to see you checking in. Surely hope the treatment improves your knee and does so quickly. Keep us posted.

@mary cxgirl MARY ... hopefully REEN will be in and able to help you with your lamps. They look awfully dark to be sun-purpled. Either they were made in amethyst or else someone has artificially nuked them.

@reen REEN ... I'm not too familiar with Pyrex. Would this site help at all? http://www.pyrexlove.com/vintage-pyrex-pattern-guide/

HI to GEORGE, HELEN, and AMBER!

@mary cxgirl MARY ... oh, my stars and body! what a huge piece of glass and, no, I cannot imagine trying to pack that. Definitely for local pick-up only or take it to a professional custom packer. Surprised it didn't reach a higher price.

@10bbg10 HELEN ... best of luck in your search! Not nearly as important, but equally frustrating, has been my search for my watch. Couldn't imagine where it went. I take it off to wash dishes or to wash my hair. Checked all my pants pockets and no luck. Finally broke down last night and went to WalMart and bought a new watch. First thing this morning as I went to get dressed and reached for my slacks that were hanging up, I spied it on the floor where it obviously had fallen out of my pocket. 🙂

@shellyrae37 SHELLY .... I LOVE that bowl and it looks similar to other patterns, but I can't pin down that exact pattern. Will keep looking. Your pink toothpick is SHELL & SEAWEED by Consolidated Lamp & Glass Co., 1894, in the pink-plated color BV is $195. Way to Go!

Now time to cook some breakie and then I must MOW the lawn again. It was only done on Monday(Today is Friday) And then to finish packing the van. Not much left to go in.
Julie

@songbreeze Gail- I always go to the Heacock books first, they have good pictures and many patterns on one page. (LOL)..... The glass you found is so beautiful, I am always in awe when glass that old survives so beautifully, and that is why I price it the way I do(LOL)........
@wattleihavenext - I just love reading your post I learn so much about your language, though I have to ask what is are Tinnies? I am thinking a pint?

@jrmrock Jesse - Happy Birthday and hope you got everything you wanted and then some 🙂 Do you find using Twitter and FB any help to sales? I have resisted but who knows one day if proven a given.

@George - Always nice when family visits, almost as good as when they leave, only kidding. Hope you had a nice visit.

@mary - I didn't see anything on your cake plate either, sorry.

@mary cxgirl MARY … very pretty cake plate, but I was unable to locate it in any of my references. Maybe @jimeapg JIM might be in and be able to tell us. Or maybe @eapg DORI would be able to tell of if it is actually EAPG so that we could continue our search in that direction.

Back to battling this dang box, I’m making….

On a happy note Happy Birthday Fran @fran
cxgirl @mary No there is no butterfly mark to be found on the perfume. That was one of the first questioned I had asked the owner
Carl @carma I wish Marley the best of luck today
Katie @fyrqueen I don't like to rake either.I leave the leaves to mulch. Where there used to be just dirt all the time from when DH would be always raking leaves, I know have green grass.
Helen @10bbg10 I was thinking about suggesting that maybe the sellers could add a link every now & then to their posts here.
@decoqueen Thanks for looking
Lainey @favoritegram off to have a look now.
Julie

@mary cxgirl MARY ... don't ever hesitate to chime in. It's always much much better to have more than one person ID something. Sometimes we just know it wrong, or our eyes are tired and we see it wrong, or we have part of it right but can use additional information. This entire Chat Room is one of collaboration, so it's always greatly appreciated when other lend a hand.

@mary cxgirl MARY ... I love your vase. Such a pretty pattern. I hope someone will ID it as I would like to see what else was made in that pattern.

@fran2 Thank you SO much for the research you did on that cup! I feel kind of silly not even thinking of looking up the letter abbreviations....duh me! 😳 I'm also embarassed to admit that I have never quite figured out how to navigate the PGP board so I've never used it...I just count on all of my glassie friends here and you've always all come through for me!!

@newplace MM I sure will....as soon as you send that glowy green Kralik was it? piece to me so I can put it in my "glass hospital" for it's recovery...LOL!

@itsagas Bill thanks for concurring...and I will remember to use that site in the future.

@suzy okcoolwheels SUZY ... Not as described is the correct thing to use when the item arrives broken. I'm scrolling UP the board so you may already have your cup commented on. Even so you might enjoy this website for restaurant ware... http://www.restaurantwarecollectors.com/

@faeowyn SHARI ... what an unusual decoration on that vase. Sorry I can't help. Hope someone else will be able to clue us in. I'm going to go ahead and post this message and then look at the other items you've posted.

@mary cxgirl MARY & @decoqueen JANICE ... oh, yea! someone who knows perfumes! I've got one of those ornate things I surely need help with. I'll take a picture at some point and maybe you all can check on it for me.

Mary... sure the seller is suppose to have the insurance built in. That's why I said "In spite of eBay policy" she made the purchase of it up to the buyer. I did not purchase it. She called eBay and wasn't particularly happy with their answer. This is a quote to me from her email "I guess I really have no option...I don't think I would normally be responsible for an item damaged in shipping (as ebay told me)...." Like JimD said...some people are just amateurs.

@nona NANCYJEAN ... oh, that sounds like so much FUN. Have a great time and come back and let us know how it went!

@shellyrae37 SHELLY & @mary cxgirl MARY ... eBay's Buyer Protection as I understand it, assures the buyer a refund of the purchase price and the original shipping charges. The buyer pays the return shipping. I think partly this is to defend a bit against someone return something for buyer remorse or some other trivial reason. The item MUST be in the sellers hands before a refund is made. I actually agree with this policy. As a seller, I would not necessarily want to refund money to someone if I did not have the item back in my possession.

All that aside, if a buyer needed to return something I certainly would pay for the return shipping along with sending sincere apologies for anything that went wrong. Bad enough the buyer is out time and money and the hassle of packing and returning the thing. I certainly wouldn't penalize them further. JMHO.

@mary cxgirl MARY ... Oh, how I wish I could find a Steuben signature on those plates. No such luck and still searching for an ID on them.

@reen REEN ... that is absolutley positively indubitably the most gorgeous piece of glass I've seen in I don't know when...and to think it is a smoke bell! Incredible. If you ever put it up for sale, let me know.

@decoqueen JANICE ... I buy a lot of stuff from that West Virginia Museum of Glass. Last December I drove from Oklahoma to New York to Washington DC area and really wanted to stop at the Museum on my way back to Oklahoma. Unfortunately, both bad weather and the days they were closed worked against me and I had to by-pass it.

@ginnyrose CAROL ... I found this article very helpful in trying to distinguish among Fostoria American, Whitehall and Jeannette Cube. Maybe you will find it interesting too. http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y201/m05/abu0038/s06

@baabaamason BOB in KY ... sorry, I don't have any ideas on your lovely art glass items.

@susu46 SUSU ... to get the blue "mention" to show up you have to use the person's LOG-IN ID. Their display name will only work as a link if it is the same as the Log-In ID. You have to click on the avatar to see their Log-In ID. I open a second window of the chatroom so I can check the Log-In names.

@scott SCOTT and @reen REEN ... So love seeing pictures of people's collections. Terrific! and thanks to both of you for sharing. Can never see too many pictures of glass, so keep the photos coming!

@reen REEN ... if you get up to step 7, and you click the open...isn't it rather like uploading a pic to eBay. You tell it upload and then it should show up here. I can't quite remember how I did mine but it took several tries. I didn't have problem uploading the picture...I had difficulty in cropping it correctly. Are you at least getting the picture uploaded here back to your profile page?

Need to think about fixing some supper.....

@wattleihavenext JULIE … and a good afternoon evening to you to! 🙂

Off to a sale this morning.. BBL

Another thing about Antique furniture is it simply does not fit into the new homes. Size is a big factor. These new homes don't have the big wide doorways like the old homes Nor do they have the high ceilings. I have had buyers loving a piece of furniture(when we had the shop) but the size just prevented them from buying.
Julie

@mary cxgirl MARY ... Look over at the column on the right side of your screen. You will see an area that says CLASS CHATROOM BOARD LINKS. Under it the Welcome to Glass Chat and How To Post a Picture Link. You hopefully will find complete , yet easy, instructions on how to post a link. If you have any problems, just let us know.

@mary , cxgirl, Mary ... Welcome to the Chatroom! What a sweet-looking furkid you have there!