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Offline David E

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2013, 10:15:34 PM »
... and I still think the group looks better as four glasses, not five  ;)
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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2013, 11:22:31 PM »
ooh they are beautiful - so classy.   I can imagine the Christmas splosh tasted fab :)
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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2013, 05:55:43 AM »
what  fantastic score. I'd have been SO afraid of drinking out of them.  :o LOL

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2013, 10:31:44 AM »
so would I  -  they'd go straight into the cabinet, for looking at only!!           Assume you've seen the pieces in the Truitt's book, and how about the vase in R. S. Williams-Thomas book - you could die for that.            The Truitt's appear to be saying that Alexandrite was a British product only, and came from Thomas Webb and S & W only, although admitting that whilst it could have been produced in the States, they didn't seem to be aware of any pieces from their side of the pond.
However, Williams-Thomas seems confident in saying that there were  "several other producers in England (apart than themselves), the Continet and the States".         
Do we think he might have been confusing this rarer product, which is charactierized by three colours,  with the far more common Amberina which consists of only two, and which doesn't have the terminal blue shading of the Alexandrite??
I guess it wouldn't be impossible to confuse the two.

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2013, 11:44:12 AM »
Not after you've seen them in vitro!
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Offline Paul S.

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2013, 12:32:43 PM »
thought that was something to do with IVF :-\ ;)

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2013, 12:48:08 PM »
In vitro means, quite literally, "in glass", so IVF means "in glass fertilisation".
(Immoral waste of taxpayers' money, when there are so many older kids desperate for adoption, but a vote-catcher.  >:( )

"In vitro" is an expression commonly used in science to denote that a particular experiment was carried out in test tubes, rather than "in vivo" which denotes being carried out in life - in a living system.

it just seems natural to use "in vitro" to denote an experience with the glass itself.  :)
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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2013, 01:27:14 PM »
Stevens and Williams is a totally different technique involving different coloured melts of glass and was undoubtedly not unique. The Webb Alexandrite is just one melt of uranium based glass containing ingredients such that successive reheating causes a change from pink then to blue. Some of the Webb items don't even have the blue.

Which Truitt book and which page please?

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2013, 02:52:54 PM »
apologies Christine :-[  -  (sometimes I take so many books off the shelves in one day, but knew it was something from the States) - it is in fact the Grover's book 'Art Glass Nouveau' - page 182, although expect you've seen it already.     Unfortunately, background colours in some of the plates don't do the quality of the pix any favours.

Sue, thanks...........so, is this the Latin root from which the C19 factories gave us the word vitrified?   .........      and vivo, I think, is found, adapted slightly, to give us the word viviparous for those creatures having the ability to give birth to fully formed young........as in some reptiles (as opposed to eggs).

I'd like to hold one, but still cannot bring myself to use them for booze. ;)

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Re: A bit of showing off
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2013, 03:02:47 PM »
I haven't got that one, just their cameo glass one

 

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