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Offline tecnogrrl

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« on: April 26, 2006, 05:52:36 PM »
Hi -

I bought a set of vases at a garage sale and am trying to ID them or find out what they might be worth.  They are very unique, 7" tall, the top is 3" across.  There is no makers mark, but you can see on the bottom where it was held by a glass blowing thing, and the top "lips" have a clamp mark on them.

I'm sorry if these are to big, I'm new at this.

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To explain the view of the tops, you insert a flower into the openings.

I do not know much about glass, but am trying to learn.  What period or type are they?   If anyone has seen such a thing, please provide info or let me know how to find more info, as I have searched thousands of pictures and cannot find anything like it.

Let me know if I can provide more info, this is my 1st post.

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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2006, 06:16:00 PM »
I've seen these described as 'Crown Friggers'  :?   Some were made in the Stourbridge area I believe, but I don't know by whom.  I think they date from about the late 1800's.
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2006, 07:43:10 PM »
I'd always understood them to be hatpin stands, but they would work for thin stemmed flowers also - perhaps freesias for madam's dressing table. :)
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2006, 07:47:10 PM »
I have seen these before, there were two tall ones, and a short squat one described as a 'stuart, ladies side table set.' Not sure what you would use the short one for though?
 They were priced up at £120 for the set.
 I have also seen the tall ones sold singularly described as stuart.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2006, 11:17:58 PM »
you all are on the ball!  I would have never thought of a hat pin stand, but that would work....I don't know as these are a pair though.   I will do some searching on that.

Ultimatly they will go up on Ebay, but I want to find out more about them and hang on to them  for a little while 1st.

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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2006, 02:03:18 AM »
Just off the top of my head, and without knowing anything about what they might have been for, what do people think of the idea that the crowns acted as a sort of in-built flower holder (or flower frog)?

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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2006, 07:28:00 AM »
I agree with Cathy, the tops of these type of vases has always struck me as a built in flower frog or arranger.
I think I've even read this somewhere.....possibly in Gulliver's "Victorian Decorative Glass"
I think that the Stuart attribution is about right, c.1890s.
They're a great pair of vases! :)
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« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2006, 07:52:01 AM »
I'd vote flowers, rather than hatpins!  Especially with them being a pair!  How many very long hatpins can one person have?   :lol:

Have you tested them to see if they react to UV?  Admittedly they don't look as if they would, but I have had surprises with glass of this sort of age!   :shock:
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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2006, 05:53:48 PM »
I think the longest hatpin I've seen was 12" or 13" long - it must have been for a heck of a hat !  :roll:
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« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2006, 06:49:24 PM »
ooh can I just add my pennyworth here? Some hatpins were very long in order to be able to go into the hat, through the rather big hairdos of the day and back out of the hat again.  A short one wouldn't be long enough to anchor the hat down to a big hairdo ...  so it's not entirely ridiculous that these could have been hatpin holders.

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