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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: flying free on July 18, 2012, 07:04:25 AM
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Quite tall at 8 1/4" - any ideas of a maker please? I'm having problems resizing my pictures at the moment so no top view or base - apologies. The top is pulled in to make 4 crimps - I'll try and get more pics on. It is uranium glass on the whole of the outside with the cranberry pink at the top only, and has then been restruck for the opalescence. The rigaree is clear uranium glass.
m
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I've been trying to sort out more pics but struggling at the moment, so no base pic.
The foot is not quite round, very slightly misshapen. There are tool marks on the foot and lots of wreathing in the glass. There is no pontil mark or if there was a pontil rod removed it has been firepolished so smoothly as to be invisible. The centre of the foot on the base is slightly pushed up so it doesn't touch the table, otherwise the base is completely smooth. The foot has been applied to the stem or vice versa and you can see where the glass is thicker down near the foot.
I've checked Gulliver's and done other searches and all I've found it one very similar identified apparently as Stevens and William, but I couldn't find any back up for that.
m
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It's beautiful and I'm very green. Webb's lemonescent seems like a possible option too
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Thanks :) and oops my last post had a typo - should have read Stevens and Williams with an 's'. I will check out Walsh, I didn't think of that so thank you.
m
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Have you got your glasses on woman!! WEBB :-*
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;D ;D ;D - not a great day today- very little sleep last night, two weeks of youngest already home on school hols (I'm in for fraught stressful two months now) and then irfanview wont work on my new laptop and I don't know how to fix it :'(
I was wondering in my thought process...mmm, Walsh Lemonescent? that doesn't sound right.
m
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Sorry to hear about your stress {{}}
Try uninstalling and download it again. It should work. I assume you're on Windows 7
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yes I was wondering about doing that.
I'll try again now. Thanks
No worries on the stress levels :) - Just that thinking of entertainment 16 hours a day every day is painful when he wont ever watch television (that lovely 'natural' babysitter ;D )
m
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do you think the tops of these marmalades have a family likeness to your one m? I've been drooling over Dave's aka mrvaselineglass pictures this afternoon lol
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,7151.0.html
edit: I mean the double ones in the new frame :)
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hi, yes I do think they are very similar. Mine is tall so the glass is stretched so the concentration of colour and where it changes is not so defined perhaps. But yes, strong possibility that they are the same maker :)
I'm just testing resizing using a different program having uninstalled irfanview - so adding another pic to see if it will upload.
Excellent, slower to do but I might try using new program :) trying to put a base pic on now as the join of the foot to the stem has been done with opalescent glass or it has gone opalescent where it was reheated?. looks neat though, beautifully done.
m
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'M'
You have a beautiful vase! One of my favorite color combinations is cranberry with yellow uranium opalescent! Unfortunately, a maker might never be definitively identified. Every glass shop was capable of making this. The opal ring where the foot attaches is just a byproduct of the piece slightly cooling just before a hot piece was added.
This could have been done by Richardson, Webb, or Walsh. If you decide to part with it (via eBay), please let me know so I can throw out a bid or two.
and to BFG: I have since taken a newer photo of my double marmalade. It was nice enough to go on the back cover of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OPALESCENT GLASS (7th Edition) by Mike Carwile. Here is the raw photo:
http://www.vaselineglass.org/lemonpair5.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/lemonpair5.jpg)
If you do a book search for the 7th edition, a big Davidson epergne made from pressed glass made the front cover. (but....that's ok, because that is also my glass and photo!)
Dave Peterson
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Thank you Dave, I will let you know if I decide to sell it.
Fantastic photo of the marmalades!
m