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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: glassobsessed on April 07, 2010, 09:35:58 AM
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Bought this the other day, saw it from a distance, it stood out like a beacon. Luckily I didn't injure anyone in my headlong rush to pick it up.
Gorgeous tall shouldered vase with a turned rim, slightly flared base and polished pontil. A little under 10 inches/25 cm tall and 4.5 inches/11.5 cm in diameter at the base.
This is the larger of the two sizes FT76 was made in.
John
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thanks for posting John - what a beauty :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Personally, think I'd have been oblivious even if I had knocked a few pedestrians over ;D
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Part of the reason it caught my eye was the folded rim, I am always on the lookout for Erik Hoglund's designs so keep an eye open for them. I wonder if the various folded rim designs of Frank Thrower were influenced by Mr Hoglund's? Many of FT's designs have Scandinavian roots.
Anyway, remembered this thread (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,22159.0.html) so here is a photo taken with U.V. light. Anyone have any idea why the glow is not uniform but in bands?
John
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Different thickness of glass?????
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Possible.
I wondered if it had something to do with some of the cadmium not being heat struck (assuming the rest underwent a chemical change after heating).
Anyone else got any bits of flame red Dartington they can stick in front of a U.V. light for comparison?
John
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I'd think that was a slightly more feasible answer, John - it's an awful lot of change for a small variation in thickness - and given the competence of the lip, I doubt there's much variation in thickness.
I'm a tad ignorant about the colours produced by cadmium though. :pb:
You could use it to keep your short spaghetti in! ;)
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Might be worth poking Adam and asking him to look. You can see at the base where the heat hasn't quite struck enough, as there's an amberina bit, but I can't see it explaining the bands as the whole thing would have been stuck in the glory hole and turned.
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What if the whole thing was not put in the glory hole - but just for example, the top bit, perhaps while the lip was being turned?
Maybe even more than once?
Bands go right around the vase - perhaps it may have been marginally cooler near the entrance to the glory hole???
You could keep long spaghetti in it too - as there's no lid, it wouldn't matter if it stuck out the top a bit!
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You have to heat it all to turn it red, otherwise it's pale amber, like this
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Ah-Ha.
So, cadmium makes glass amber until it's heated more, when it will go red - it's the metal behind amberina (I'd "got" that bit - just didn't know how it worked exactly!)
ok, I can retire for the day. That's one something learned. Thanks! :hug:
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It would make a mighty fine spaghetti holder. ;D
Christine, does your posy glow fairly evenly all over? :D
John
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Don't know; it left home for a very good price!