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Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Cathy B on December 03, 2006, 09:52:57 AM: Hi everyone,

I don't recognise this float bowl at all. I'm neither the buyer nor the seller, just an interested watcher.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250047943518

Thanks
Cathy
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Glen on December 03, 2006, 12:12:52 PM: Hi Cathy - isn't it gorgeous! I had noticed it too and wondered who the maker could be. I'm afraid I don't know the answer though.

Glen
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: pamela on December 03, 2006, 08:54:34 PM: Cathy, I do still believe it's a Jobling of the Thirties - see 1934 page 9 - Glen, please!!!!
There is a family also to Brockwitz of course - but we have got no proof for a single item like that.
http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/vasen/01134.html

The quality of the glass in this auction says: I am new!

but this is my very very personal private thinking - please do not value :shock:
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: B & M on December 03, 2006, 09:08:50 PM: Definitely not Jobling. Pamela, I think you are referring to the parrot motif in the 1934 catalogue. this was a much smaller item, available as a decorative figure or as the centre to an ashtray. It is quite different to this centrepiece figure. The bowl doesn't look like any Jobling pattern I am familiar with either.

Steven
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: pamela on December 03, 2006, 10:47:26 PM: Thank you Steven, your reply makes me feeling again it is newly made
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Cathy B on December 03, 2006, 11:15:57 PM: Thanks everyone,

The quality was what made me feel curious about it as well.
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Tigerchips on December 04, 2006, 08:22:23 AM: Perhaps someone may know the pattern to this bowl?
http://www.black-poppy.co.uk/mc/unknown/dscn5126.jpg
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Cathy B on December 04, 2006, 08:30:34 AM: Is that the Jobling pattern?
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Tigerchips on December 04, 2006, 08:32:20 AM: Are there any other companies that make these turret style feet other than Davidsons and Jobling?
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Cathy B on December 04, 2006, 09:16:56 AM: For anyone interested, (i.e. me :) ) here's the Jobling version, in the middle of an ashtray. Clearly totally different.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280048461185

This is more like it (though I can't see the detail well enough). Tony Hayter says Czech.

http://1st.glassman.com/gallery-frogs/slides/ambersatinbirdfrog2.html

Does anyone know what the Cambridge cockatoo looked like?

Cathy
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Connie on December 04, 2006, 11:21:05 AM: Quote
Does anyone know what the Cambridge cockatoo looked like?

Thank you, Cathy! I have been trying to remember the US maker of a similar figurine but my brain isn't working too good since my car wreck :cry:

I looked in Cambridge Colors and they have the Blue jay and Eagle flower frogs pictured but not a cockatoo.

Edited to add: Images of Cambridge Flower Frogs (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Lxq&sa=N&resnum=0&q=Cambridge%20flower%20frog&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wi)

But as I was typing this I remembered that Tiffin made a very detailed Cockatoo lamp. In fact, I think Cheri (Alma's Attic) had/has one.

Edited to add: The details on the Tiffin lamp are very different also.
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Glen on December 04, 2006, 11:32:11 AM: Connie - you had a car crash? What happened? Are you OK? I've "been there" and it's not nice. Take care.

Glen
Title: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Connie on December 05, 2006, 12:35:59 AM: Thank you, Glen. Details in the cafe. I don't want to hijack Cathy's thread. :lol:
Title: Re: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Ohio on December 16, 2006, 06:40:15 AM: Hi. This is not Cambridge's Bird on a Stump, AKA cockatoo nor any Tiffin bird production item...matter of fact I'm 99+% certain its not American. Ken
Title: Re: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Cathy B on December 16, 2006, 11:12:10 AM: Thank you, Ken. It's a very strange bird indeed.
Title: Re: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Ohio on December 16, 2006, 03:17:44 PM: OK Cathy I thought I'd seen that bird before...check out this link & bird #2 on the first row in amber to see if it doesn't match up with yours. Ken

http://www.1st-glass.1st-things.com/gallery-frogs/index.html
Title: Re: Pressed glass float bowl - Glen, Pamela?
Post by: Cathy B on December 16, 2006, 11:49:54 PM: Thanks Ken. It's looks much more a match than any of the others. I don't own this piece, incidentally - I just saw it on eBay and was curious.