Topic: Spherical, cobalt blue, silver flecked oil burner?

[GlassIsGood]

My brother is a great one for raiding antique shops for novel gifts for my mother.  I don't know what he paid for this. 

This is what would appear to be a spherical device that you can fill with an ignition source (oil?) in a clear sphere inset into the top and has a wick inset into a metal tip (brass?) that is held inside the sphere with a spring.  What surprised me was that it was hollow inside, and the cobalt blue silver flecked glass seems to be folded into the bottom of an upper clear layer.  It has a clear circular sticker on top with gold writing that says 'CELLO HAND MADE', but I can't find anything with oil burner and CELLO on Google, so I wondered about you clever people on here.  Any ideas of origins, dates or value please?

[Anne]

There is / was a Cello Glass in Firozabad, India, which makes or made giftware items. I suspect this is one of theirs. :thup:

An earlier topic about the same item in a different colour is here:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=24441.0

[Leni]

Thank you!    I think you have just solved a mystery for me from nearly two years ago! http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,24441.0.html 

[GlassIsGood]

Hi Leni

It's def. the same thing in a different colour, yours is just missing the little brass coloured wick holder - it is held in by a spring which holds the thing in the top most glass sphere with sprung loaded arms - in a similar manner to the way the tops are put into spherical blown glass christmas tree decorations.  The small brass top appears to have a thin hole in it, and I wonder if this is to fill it with (I'm guessing) oil perhaps by using a hyperdermic needle, I also think it would help to stop the oil getting air locked in the system.  There is a thick wick in ours and it has clearly never been used.  So there we are and according to Anne they could be indian in origin.  Though looking up that Cello glass in India on the internet they don't seem to sell anything like it now.

Does this mean I've been able to help someone? - glad I could help, if inadvertently, its better than just 'taking'  :thup:

Edit:  Leni you used the term 'part-pulegoso globe' does this describe the method of manufacture or did you think it was by a different maker?