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Title: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... Part 1...
Post by: astrid on March 05, 2011, 04:47:31 PM
This is a continuation - split-off of sorts of another thread where the topic of themed glass displays came up. I change every month on the front window sill, and kept a few pictures around of 2 of the previous ones.

The upper 2 pictures are for my november 2010 display, theme: Czech Pressed Glass.
The bottom 2 pictures are off my december 2010 display with the theme: Winter Colours

The current one for March 2011 "Oh No! That's not Murano" you can find here http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39034.0.html

So, who likes to add a few pictures of his or her current exhibition?

Astrid

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Post by: Anik R on March 05, 2011, 05:09:53 PM
Astrid, thank you for sharing your displays!  :kissy:

But some of your glass appears so dangerously close to the edge of the sill...  :thud:   The 'mother' in me wants to push some of your glass safely back.
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Post by: rosieposie on March 05, 2011, 05:17:43 PM
Thank you as well Astrid...they are lovely, and I like your little Leerdam Ellie perched on his black stand......I might do an 'Ellie' display. :sun:

Has anybody got a nice selection of Egg shapes they could do an Easter display with....?

Title: Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine...
Post by: astrid on March 05, 2011, 05:30:07 PM
But some of your glass appears so dangerously close to the edge of the sill...  :thud:   The 'mother' in me wants to push some of your glass safely back.

Ah, but I have the luxury of no kids and no dogs, just two adults with little reason to stand close to the window all the time. I clean the window sill once I month when I change the display, so no danger there either. And the only time I push the glass back is when I have Rock Band game night, and some of my friends are trying out for drums. The drum pads are positioned relatively close to the window, so I have to take care they don't wave the drum sticks too enthusiastically in the vicinity of my glass :)

Astrid

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Post by: Anik R on March 05, 2011, 07:11:44 PM
Drumsticks wildly waving near glass???  (http://www.sympato.ch/smileys/Twitch.gif)

Astrid, I think you really do want to make me faint.


P.S.  I've also got a 'themed' glass display...  it's called "Make it mingle so that the husband doesn't notice it's a newly acquired piece".   ;D
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Post by: keith on March 05, 2011, 08:05:28 PM
These are our Bohemian,Scottish and Maltese themes(a couple of pwt's not from north of the border)
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 05, 2011, 08:25:16 PM
Ah-ha Keith - been meaning to catch up with you re. the big, big amber cased bottle you have at the back left of the Maltese stuff - it's NOT Mdina. It's Malta Decorative Glass - the very short-lived company set up shortly after Michal Harris left Malta, by the Maltese government, with Chinese financial backing. The staff consisted of Vicente Boffo and a load of brand-new apprentices. There is a distinct possibility, given it is such a large piece, that Boffo may have made it - probably working with one of the apprentices.  :sm:

One of my themes in my displays is to put glass mushrooms in the gaps between bits - gives it all a bit of an organic feel......
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 05, 2011, 08:45:04 PM
A semi related kind of thread: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37324.0.html

My current table top, there is a theme as well as an odd one out. I have bought a couple of new bits recently and a mass reshuffle is looming to fit them in. :usd:

John
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Post by: Anik R on March 05, 2011, 09:18:21 PM
Eeek!  Some more precious glass dangerously close to the edge...  :-X
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Post by: Leni on March 05, 2011, 11:11:56 PM
I've also got a 'themed' glass display...  it's called "Make it mingle so that the husband doesn't notice it's a newly acquired piece".   ;D
Ha!  >:D  Good to know I'm not the only one!  ;)  ;D
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Post by: Anne on March 05, 2011, 11:16:30 PM
Oh grief, where would I start?!  ::)  

OK, a small green themed display on the landing (now changed to something else!), an eclectic mix of wineglasses, bowls, and other bits and bats in the lounge, and a very small part of the trinket set collection in the bedroom (now migrated into my son's bedroom as he's away at uni!)

I'm trying to rearrange everything in the house to make space to put glass in displays / shelves etc.; trouble is, I need a bigger house!  :ooh:
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Post by: NKP on March 05, 2011, 11:34:02 PM
P.S.  I've also got a 'themed' glass display...  it's called "Make it mingle so that the husband doesn't notice it's a newly acquired piece".   ;D

... yep! ... that's the one I also do !  :24:
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Post by: antiquerose123 on March 06, 2011, 01:46:22 AM
 :hiclp: :hiclp:          (http://www.gifanimations.com/GA/Image/Animations/Love/love_005.gif)  Love them !!!!!!

Keep them coming, as I am enjoying seeing the collections  :thup: 
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Post by: obscurities on March 06, 2011, 04:50:29 AM
I have rearranged a little.... except for the coffee table.....

First image...  
Top shelf... almost completely Welz... with a couple of small Loetz pieces and a couple of Kralik pieces.
Lower shelf...  mostly Kralik... with a couple of other pieces.

Second image.....
Top shelf... Kralik, with some Loetz, Rindskopf and a couple of others.
Lower shelf.... has some Bohemian/Czech glass with some odds and ends including some American, Belgian,  French, German and Italian "accessories"......

The coffee table.... Uranium Italian glass which will soon have the addition of the 4th image added to the "Family", and standing a stately 11.5 inches tall......




Title: Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine...
Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 11:03:50 AM
What fabulous collections you have between you.....mine is mostly animals, birds and Angels with some art deco thrown in.  

I intend to follow your lovely example Astrid, and start doing themed settings.....I have sort of,  but they are more 'grouped' than themed by the calendar.  
I will do an Easter one and show it here.....in the meantime, I remembered I did do an Angel display with the little lampwork Angels at Christmas,  Unfortunately it did not include the art glass Angels I also have.....maybe next Christmas.

so I will start my ball rolling by showing that....and then do some others as we go along.....
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Post by: Paul S. on March 06, 2011, 11:12:07 AM
have enjoyed immensely eveyone's displays  -  but Anne dahhling - a lilac wall, gosh so last year you know ;D    So, thought I'd go public with my few pieces, although won't tell you what the theme is just yet, although suspect one or two of you more knowledgeable older collectors might guess  -  and you know, because they are handled somewhat frequently, believe it or not, I never need to dust them. ;)
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Post by: Anik R on March 06, 2011, 11:28:24 AM
Paper napkins, Paul?  So proletarian...  (http://www.sympato.ch/smileys/Sadistyk.gif)
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Post by: Leni on March 06, 2011, 11:35:47 AM
Here's just a small sample of mine - not so much a display, more a heap!  :ooh:   :24: 
Title: Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine...
Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 11:39:46 AM
You are so right Anik, and they are RED, and not even patterned....that would be forgivable....almost!!!  :usd:


Leni, that is a lovely themed display....but where is Dilly Duck?....I am glass animal mad!
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Post by: Leni on March 06, 2011, 11:57:09 AM
I don't 'do' ducks Rosie, I 'do' swans!  Oh, how I 'do' swans!  :spls:  (I think it was 78 at the last count  :pb: )

Here's just a few of them:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 12:15:53 PM
Oh Leni, what a beautiful display.....they are so elegant, and I love the way you have the Art Deco ladies at each end....as though they are shepherding the swans together.....beautiful. :sun: :sun:

BUT!  You must have a red Dilly Duck to complete your red Whitefriars display.......off you go to eBay! :wsh:
Title: Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine...
Post by: NKP on March 06, 2011, 12:18:36 PM
... thanks to Anik R. I now know how to call this: "Make it mingle so that the husband" (or wife) "doesn't notice it's a newly acquired piece".   
Title: Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine...
Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 12:33:04 PM
Yes NKP (henceforth I shall call you Nankipoo!!) and Anik, we all have to adopt the 'Oh I got that one AGES ago' or 'I'd forgotten I had that one' attitude with our other halves, having secreted them amongst the other hundred or so for a while....then it can come out into the open!:pb:

Who made the blacked legged sheep in your lovely display, Nankipoo?  I do like it.
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 06, 2011, 12:58:18 PM
I've only got very old images - my camera doesn't "do" mid distance or far distance - it only does close-up and I think it's reverted to only doing the very close-up close-up.
But here's a taster.
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Post by: NKP on March 06, 2011, 12:59:04 PM
Who made the blacked legged sheep in your lovely display, Nankipoo?  I do like it.

... off topic, but the "black legged sheep" is actually an original Nankipoo design (;)) Delftware cow !
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Post by: Paul S. on March 06, 2011, 01:04:16 PM
wonderful display Sue  -  I'll take the bottom right compartment from you, if that's o.k. ;)
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Post by: Leni on March 06, 2011, 01:04:32 PM
Ooo!  I like the cow, Nankipoo!  :D  (And the new name!  :24: )

Sue, as I've said before, I do love your display!  I also love the way it's 'themed within the main theme'  ;D  

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Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 01:08:13 PM
Great display Sue...very themed and very artistically balanced in arrangement......I like it very much indeed.

Nankipoo....a delft cow, not a sheep!!...did you design it, make it, or what?  I love it! :rah:
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 06, 2011, 01:25:08 PM
It's still sort of themed, just a lot more jam-packed now - but it has to be said, Mdina just lends itself to making themed arrangements!

Paul, paper napkins - how sophisticated! Here, you get a bit of kitchen roll - and if you're lucky, it's not been used for something else (cleanish - such as a water spill) first. (sorry, Anik, if that makes you  :-X )

Sorry, though, my IoWSG "Blue Azurene" Michael Harris Fish (unsigned, but he did make it), is not for sale!
This is a more out-of-focus, but bigger picture of all the shelves.
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Post by: Leni on March 06, 2011, 01:33:59 PM
 :thud: Wow!  Magnificent, Sue!   :hiclp:  There's even more than last time I saw it!  ;D 

My Victorian Vaseline / uranium cabinet has also been getting more jam-packed!  ::) 

Here's the latest pic of my 'Triffids & Audreys' theme  ;)
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 06, 2011, 01:39:12 PM
 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: and not a black light in sight, Leni!
(but it's the same picture you've seen before - honest - I can't do any new big pictures.  >:D )
There's an image of a beauty very like your newest big candelabra in one of my Glass encyclopedias (Glass Source Book). I so-oooooo want one!
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Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 02:42:25 PM
What a collection Leni....hope non of them escape....'Little shop of Beauties!!' methinks.
Would it be possible to do a repeat picture with blacklight Leni....pleeeeeze. :kissy:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 06, 2011, 02:50:56 PM
The Murano Mob....birds of a feather.....does this count as a theme???
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Post by: Anik R on March 06, 2011, 04:17:59 PM
How I do enjoy looking at people's themed and not-so-themed glass displays. :)   Astrid, you had a really great idea, starting this thread!

By the way, I'm so pleased to hear I'm not the only person with a "make it mingle..." theme.  :usd: 
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Post by: Anne on March 07, 2011, 03:15:07 AM
This is so much fun seeing everyone's collections. I'll try and add some more of mine once I can get to them...  currently a lot are stowed in boxes and cupboards whilst my dearly beloved is having a good sort out of his stuff (so I've hidden mine for safety!!!)

Oh and Paul, the colour is *not* lilac - it's actually a sort of china blue - one of those fancy heritage colours but the camera decided it wanted to make it lilac-ier!
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Post by: ju1i3 on March 07, 2011, 05:52:43 AM
I think I have a few more cobalt blue hyacinth vases since I took that pic - I can't resist buying more!
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Post by: astrid on March 07, 2011, 06:48:04 AM
It's so inspiring, looking at everyone's collections like that. All very different pieces of glass, and all great if you put them together, wow. And did I spot a few Copier vases on the left end of your shelves, NKP? Very nice...

I can post one more bit. It's not a themed display at all, it's a storage solution I've come up with for all the glass I can't display. Bought one of those smaller Ikea hang closets, left out the back (it was sturdy enough) and put the whole thing on a window-sill upstairs behind my PC. I used to have curtains there, mostly drawn so I wouldn't have too much light behind the screen, but the glass does a much better job of filtering the light, and I can put a lot of vases there. By necessity, this one changes every month as I take pieces out to display, and put others back from the month before.



Astrid
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Post by: Glas Vasen on March 07, 2011, 12:41:14 PM
Hello all
You all have fantastic collections, is always interesting and exciting to look at these various shapes, colors and ages,
how you do it with the dusting and cleaning?.
Every visitor is survived by his fingerprints now get our visitor no slippers only white gloves. lol : O)

For space reasons, we have our Racks made self in order to take advantage of every square meter. When I have to go to ours basement I fell pain because I see hundreds of vases, packed in Boxes.

Greetings from Switzerland

Sergio


(http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/Glas_Vasen_001.jpg)


(http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/Glas_Vasen_002.jpg)


(http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/Glas_Vasen_003.jpg)


(http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/Glas_Vasen_004.jpg)
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 07, 2011, 01:04:47 PM
What a lot of vases Sergio.  :o We don't mention the dust word on here...
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Post by: rosieposie on March 07, 2011, 01:10:45 PM
What, all those vases, and no flowers :o???

Here are some for you Sergio! :fwr:
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 07, 2011, 01:56:09 PM
 :thud:

no, no, no, please, do not spoil your glass with water and rotting dead vegetation inside it, do not detract from it's intrinsic beauty.

Flowers belong in the ground, outside.

 :-* Rosie!
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 07, 2011, 02:07:46 PM
well i can actually show some of mine as i dusted for the first time in a very long time (mainly coz im off work not very well so becoming very very bored!!), had a bit of a change round too.
New pictures are number 24 to 38 (and i now see how badly i cleaned the outer glass on the glass cabinet from pics 31/32 :pb:)
Pictures 36/37/38 are in what is known as the "holding zone"!! when i havent found room for them yet, or not sure what is happening to them or even what they are. There is also a garage full of this "holding zone glass" probably should be the twilight zone
michelle

https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/MyStallSomeOfMyCollectionGroupLots#5581337821646070946
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Post by: jomo99 on March 07, 2011, 02:07:58 PM
   I Agree with that Sue, keep the dead flowers OUT of my House!!!! I dont want them in my vases either.

                      Warmest Wishes,

                          John
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Post by: keith on March 07, 2011, 02:43:11 PM
Incredible displays,so neat and tidy,I dare not show my storage shelves :-[,these are becoming full now!
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Post by: Leni on March 07, 2011, 02:57:40 PM
Wow!  :o  I'm loving this! :D  Some people's houses are even more full of glass than mine!  :girlcheer:   :hiclp:
But who mentioned the 'D' word?  :thud:   :pb: 
The sun is shining and I'm all too aware that I should be doing some - say it quietly - dusting  But I ain't gonna  :sun: 
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Post by: rosieposie on March 07, 2011, 03:10:54 PM
Ahem!!! 

"The vase (pronounced /ˈvɑːz/, /ˈveɪs/, or /ˈveɪz/) is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers. It can be made from a number of materials including ceramics and glass. The vase is often decorated and thus used to extend the beauty of its contents."

Sue & Jomo99.......some of us like flowers  :cry: :cry:....it isn't a rule that you can't put them in vases, only sensible not to put them in some valuable ones.

 :fwr:  :sun: :fwr:  :sun: :fwr:  :sun: :fwr:   :sun: :fwr:   :sun: :fwr:  :sun: :fwr:

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Post by: Anne on March 07, 2011, 03:17:32 PM
Ohhh wow! Can someone send me a truckload of tissues please? Such gorgeous collections!  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I was just going to add a picture of a small collection but I hardly dare now:  :ooh:  but I will, just for interest!  Chance drinking glasses in this tiny collection - all Calypto pattern and I seem to have a large quantity of most of them!
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 07, 2011, 03:35:20 PM
Gold ones are good, Anne. No brandy balloons though? I think I've got some, if you're interested - and I think I've got the wirey box container for some - they're basketted up on top of wardrobes though.....

I do have the odd flower in the house Rosie. Very odd.  >:D
I grow insect eating plants (nepenthes and drosera) and a few succulents. My nepenthes put out two flowers last year, and the drosera looks as if it's going to flower for the second year running.

Then there's my lampwork glass orchid......
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Post by: rosieposie on March 07, 2011, 03:38:23 PM
They are lovely Anne....small is beautiful.... :sun:

We had, (and used) a lot of Chance glass when I was a child....little dishes with lace-like patterns on them and bowls with lovely anemones in bright colours on them.  You have just rekindled a lot of childhood memories...thank you.
PS Do you want plain or patterned tissues!!?
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 07, 2011, 03:45:24 PM
Did you know the Anenome design was Michael Harris, Rosie?
He designed Anne's Calypto pattern too.

(we had horrid juice glasses when we were small - all covered in matthey crinkly stuff, very unpleasant to hold.)
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Post by: jomo99 on March 07, 2011, 03:49:55 PM


   No Rosie, it isn't a rule that you can't put cut flowers into vases, but NOT in my house!!! I HATE cut flowers, they belong outside in my view!!!lol! Just my personal preference.


                               Warmest Wishes,

                                   John
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Post by: rosieposie on March 07, 2011, 03:55:55 PM
No Sue, I didn't know that....very interesting....I loved them.
The glasses you mentioned....did they look like they were covered in sugar, with coloured bands round them?
A bit like these?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Set-6-Vintage-Coloured-Glass-Tumblers-Retro-Modernist-/180633159779?pt=UK_Collectables_Vintage_RL&hash=item2a0e934863

We had them too....in the 50's!!

John....you can buy me choccies instead, then I will forgive you.....no flowers indeed!!
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Post by: Glas Vasen on March 07, 2011, 04:51:46 PM
To Lustrousstone;
I did not want to be with the (D) word, I just wanted to say it again and again a big burden for me when I think "now I must go against the rags put in action"


To rosieposie;
Flower pot is my solution.


For this reason I give my Wife only potted plants, we were lucky to have many porcelain tea & coffee mugs for our cut flowers.  :t:
Here we see not the deposit.

But sometimes when I come Home, I get a fright when she once again Orrefors vase has taken or as in this image with tulips. But she is Sweet and my heart, so I forgive her.  :kissy:

(http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/my_heart.jpg)


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Post by: glassobsessed on March 07, 2011, 05:07:55 PM
 ;D

I can't help it, my nerdiness is overwhelming me.... Michelle, how wide is that beautiful IoWSG blue and white swirls charger you have there? :-[

John
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 07, 2011, 05:57:07 PM
Glas Vasen - thanks you for sharing all your lovely glass displays - and your affection for your lady.  :-*

(Every christmas my Dad gave mother a potted plant. Every christmas, mother flung it across the room.
Ahhh, the old "family christmas traditions".....)

Rosie yup, like those, but shorter, with a narrow base and slightly bulbous top part. Small hands had to grip them tightly because of the size, which meant feeling the horrible stuff almost to the point of pain.
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Post by: Anik R on March 07, 2011, 08:19:04 PM
Oh, I am in awe.  How I dream of having shelves and shelves of glass on each wall...  :mrgreen:     Maybe one day...

Such beautiful collections and wonderful displays!!! 
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 07, 2011, 08:47:09 PM
Here are (some of) mine. There is more on display and more in boxes and cupboards. The scruffy two shelves are ebay stock (some of it) and the books are a goodly proportion of my glass books.

The Jobling salad bowl is damaged, so I'm not worried about water marks.
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Post by: Glas Vasen on March 07, 2011, 09:40:32 PM
My heart goes up see so many different Glass object.  :hiclp:

All I Know, my Knowledge is bad my English too I’m still a newbie on glass
, most I can ID are from Malta, maybe too from Isle of weight for dose collectors who Living in the UK.

Lustrousstone am I right on u’r image shelves2_gmb are they from Malta Like Mdina, Mtarfa and Phoenician.

Good night see u all soon.
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 07, 2011, 09:58:40 PM
Yes the two vases on the outside of the top and the two shelves below on "shelves 2" are Mdina and Malta Decorative Glass.
And I forgot this photo.
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Post by: Put-Lug on March 08, 2011, 07:38:39 PM
I have just looked through all the fabulous pictures in this thread AGAIN..... and what can I say...?

WOW!...   WOW!...   WOW!...   :thud:

Thank you for sharing your pictures with us...

They make my collection look a little paltry ... but my excuses are... mmm....... I'm a newbie and ... collecting on a very tight budget!
But your photo's are inspirational and just make my love of all things glass even stronger.......

So THANK YOU again.... :kissy: :kissy:

Jen
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Post by: Leni on March 08, 2011, 08:48:46 PM
OK, here's a few more.  Dining room cabinet  ;)
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Post by: rosieposie on March 08, 2011, 08:53:31 PM
Hi Christine :hi:
I think we have some simlar tastes!!  Did your collection start out with green glass??  mine did, and I have a green glass art nouveau clock like the two you have.  I also have it in brown...infact two of them.  There is a tale attached to one of them, and if you twist my arm, I will relate!!
You have a wonderful collection....in fact everyone does.  

I have decided to take some more pics of all my animals, so will post them on here to redress the vases/critters balance!! :sun:
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 08, 2011, 08:55:56 PM
Interesting vase in the center, top shelf first photo, who is it by Leni?

I saw your ruby Toby, trying to look incognito.....

John
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Post by: rosieposie on March 08, 2011, 08:57:23 PM
Leni. hi :hi: what is the amazingly huge and beautiful piece of glass at the top of the last picture?   What beautiful pieces of glassware....do you use them, or are you like me, the usable stuff hidden in a normal cupboard?? :thud:
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Post by: Anne on March 08, 2011, 09:01:06 PM
Looks like an Adam Aaronson vase to me... gorgeous aren't they?
http://www.adamaaronson.com/adam.php?navID=17
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 08, 2011, 09:01:41 PM
Hi John
The IOWSG blue and white swirl charger is 42cm in diameter, it has the flame mark on the pontil which is quite interesting as ive been told that most blue and white swirl has the coachbolt mark, but then saying that my blue and white globe vase also has the flame mark.
This is the most expensive piece (as in what i have paid) in my whole collection, i got it at a charity auction, and paid a very good sum for it.
I am going to get some better pictures of it to put on my picasa album as the ones on there currently are not very good
michelle
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 08, 2011, 10:07:26 PM
My collection started out as uranium glass rather than green then expanded to carnival glass (now in store and for disposal) and then to paperweights, odd non-U glasses and Mdina. The bulk of it is uranium glass in all its colours.
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Post by: Leni on March 08, 2011, 11:10:31 PM
Interesting vase in the center, top shelf first photo, who is it by Leni?

Anne's right, it's by Adam Aaronson  ;D  We saw it made at the inaugural meeting of 'The London Glassaholics', and Adam inscribed the base with all our names  :girlcheer: 

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what is the amazingly huge and beautiful piece of glass at the top of the last picture?

That's a 'Spirale' vase by Peter Layton, Rosie.  And no, I don't keep the usable stuff hidden in a normal cupboard. The bottom shelves of the cabinet in the centre and right pictures are glasses we use all the time, mixed in with the Whitefriars Ruby pieces :D     

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Post by: rosieposie on March 08, 2011, 11:18:37 PM
Oh Leni,  top award for bravery, but maybe you are right, these things should be used......actually, I do use a lot of my art deco green glass, so maybe I am a bit normal after all!! :usd:

AA sounds like a Good Egg to do all those signatures for you......I haven't met him yet, maybe at the next glass fair if he attends.

The Spirale vase by Peter Layton is gorgeous,  I would love to see a close up of it next time you get it down to du** it!

Thank you everybody once again :kissy:....this has been an amazing thread....thank you Astrid.  :kissy:
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Post by: Leni on March 08, 2011, 11:23:48 PM
The Spirale vase by Peter Layton is gorgeous,  I would love to see a close up of it next time you get it down to du** it!
I have a photo of it in my album already Rosie  ;)  I photograph all my glass when I first get it! ;D
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Post by: rosieposie on March 08, 2011, 11:31:11 PM
What a fabulous piece that is Leni, and I'm not sure if you noticed it, but the wallpaper in that picture looks as though it is a reflection of the light passing through the vase!!  Amazing piece of photography. Thank you so much for sharing it.  :kissy:
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Post by: meegs on March 09, 2011, 03:45:46 AM
I got the blues..........

(Well, some of them out at the moment!)
Meegs
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 09, 2011, 08:07:00 AM
Thanks Michelle and Leni.  :mrgreen:

I use a few bits and bobs in the kitchen, this is my fruit bowl: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/ScandinavianGlass#5430334728842636402

John
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Post by: Leni on March 09, 2011, 08:31:50 AM
Ooo!  Meegs!  I love your 'Blues'  :D  But please don't put the ballerina lady in front of the Schmetterling!  :o  The Schmetterling is my absolute favourite piece of Walther ever, and should be centre front, IMHO  ;D 

Rosie, the 'wallpaper' you mention is the watered 'silk' (probably nylon  ;) ) lining of the cabinet!  :)

John, I love your fruit bowl!  And I love the beautifully arranged pictures with the wood in the background to show off the 'tree ring' effect!   I feel quite embarrassed to confess that my fruit bowl isn't glass at all - it's actually an antique wooden bowl :spls: ::)  Of course I took a look at the rest of your Scandi album  ;)  You have some lovely pieces there!   :hiclp:   Reminded me that I have a small, mainly Scandi, display with a 'Green' theme  ;D 
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Post by: rosieposie on March 09, 2011, 09:19:17 AM
 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: The Scandi fruit bowl........... :cry: I want it!!

Oh I feel I have such rubbish in comparison to all your lovely glass....Meegs, your collection of blue glass is exquisite, and I adore the green Scandi collection Leni, and silk lined cabinets....wow!! It certainly does the trick with that lovely vase.
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Post by: Trebor on March 09, 2011, 10:07:19 AM
Hi Astrid i would love to show these off.Some i am hoping to purchase soon  :X:
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Post by: Trebor on March 09, 2011, 10:20:09 AM
Hi well they are out standing collection`s these are some of my collection .
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 09, 2011, 12:35:37 PM
Hi there
for you John ive just added some new pics of my IOWSG blue and white swirl charger and globe vase pictures 22 to 31 https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/IsleOfWight#5582055940768978002

Will also pictures the modern IOWSG pink and blue swirl vase when i dig it out.
I am going to try and photograph every piece i have and catalogue them all in the picasa album. I few years ago we lost everything on our old computer so i lost photo's of hundreds of pieces of glass that i have had (fortunitly i had backed up to disc all family photo's), we even lost our Turbo lister files
So from now on i am going to do the same as Leni and Take a picture of every new piece that enters the house no matter how small and add them to one of my web albums
michelle
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Post by: flying free on March 09, 2011, 01:35:08 PM
three displays - mostly handblown or mould blown,  all textured in some way which is my favourite kind of glass  :) - the face box gets moved to wherever I fancy seeing him ;D
m
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Post by: astrid on March 09, 2011, 04:33:30 PM
Hi well they are out standing collection`s these are some of my collection .

Oooh Robert, I like that textured piece in clear (or is it smoke?) in the middle of your last picture with the blue and brown stripes. What is that?

Astrid
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Post by: rosieposie on March 09, 2011, 05:14:01 PM
They are lovely Robert, (especially the Wedgwood squirrel, I'm nuts about squirrels!). I like the use of the long window as a light source.....I can just hear Anik saying....'Don't slam the door!!'

I like textured glass as well, M, especially Scandinavian glass. Yours are very restrained and carefully placed....I wish I had that knack. :mrgreen:
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Post by: Trebor on March 09, 2011, 05:15:48 PM
Hi Astrid i was told by sue i think it was by Catthness 1970- it has blue and Burgundy strips . weight is ib 5.1Height 240,mm This is a better pic
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 09, 2011, 06:01:23 PM
 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I see your new fishie, flying-free - and I see some lovely Benny's - and some fabby Bitossi..... ohhhh, I'm going to have to show you somethings..... sorry about the poor quality of pics - they were taken sort of as the camera was deciding it was going to refuse to operate in any mode other than micro-micro (flower+s setting)
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Post by: meegs on March 09, 2011, 06:14:08 PM
I love the diversity in everyone's collection, such a wide range of varying glass some of which I have never seen down under.
I'll be looking a lot harder now!
Cheers,
Meegs

Leni, I'll move the ballerina  :)
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Post by: Trebor on March 09, 2011, 06:15:53 PM
Hi sue you have a amazing collection do you buy from the makers as well as the ebay and carboot`s I cannot imagine to many of that quality turning up at a carbooty at lest not the one`s i go to  :or:
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 09, 2011, 06:17:32 PM
its all gorgeous Sue you know i get a bit green eyed when i see your collection anyway... OMG what are those mushrooms??? i want them, they would be so at home with all my mushrooms dont you think they may be lonely in your collection
 >:D michelle
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Post by: johnphilip on March 09, 2011, 06:21:31 PM
Well what a load of show offs . :mrgreen: :angel: :mrgreen: :hi:
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 09, 2011, 06:25:41 PM
we have showed your ours time for you to get yours out JP  ;)
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Post by: astrid on March 09, 2011, 06:27:04 PM
Hi Astrid i was told by sue i think it was by Catthness 1970- it has blue and Burgundy strips . weight is ib 5.1Height 240,mm This is a better pic

Very nice... don't have any Caithness myself - I just love these nicely structured thickwalled pieces from that time period. Thanks for the extra pic!

Astrid
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 09, 2011, 06:56:08 PM
The lampwork mushrooms are the work of the amazing Mr Ed Iglehart, Michelle.
He's still working - at all sorts of interesting things! I've got some oil lamps, some beautiful little long necked pot vases, and a couple of wall-fitted "Wizard cone" lamps.

http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/resume.html

Robert, I can't get to car boots - I go to some fairs - not as many as I used to - in fact, just one a year, if I'm lucky and Christine invites me to stay.
I used to buy a lot on ebay, but not any more, I scour the local charity shops and if i'm taken out for an afternoon, I look at other charity shops.
I go to galleries which sell Art Glass and I buy from contemporary makers. Or rather, I did when I could afford to collect.
I buy very little now. I had allocated some of an inheritance to put towards collecting, spent it quite rapidly, had tons of fun with it, accumulated a lot, then had to stop.
I was just lucky, really, having the means to collect when I did.
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Post by: Glas Vasen on March 09, 2011, 07:00:12 PM
Hello Chopin-liszt

You make my day??

I Know is not the right Treat at here, but as I saw ur Vases (first image ioshelfgmb.jpg) on the right side.

On yours Iiridescent (Irisiert) Cylinder Vase I have a few questions.

1. It’s yours Vase Signet?
2. Can you me some tell about this Vase = Manufacture, Designer, Age etc.

It would be gratefully, then I was long time searching  for more information.

P.S. Please have a look to the image, you see the Signature I have nothing found any about this, because I can’t really ID the Signature.


Best Regards Sergio

(http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/C_Vase_001.jpg)   (http://glas-vasen.ch/gbay/gms/C_Vase_002.JPG)
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 09, 2011, 07:19:14 PM
 :hi: Glas Vasen
That is an Isle of Wight Studio Glass vase, made and signed by Timothy Harris.
It is an "Undercliff Night" large cylinder, No. 21 of a limited edition of 75, but I think only around 25-ish were made in the end. It is dated 2009.
However, the design is still made in other shapes.  :thup:

http://www.isleofwightstudioglass.co.uk/acatalog/Undercliff_Collection.html

I do not recognise your piece, sorry, but I want to know what it is too - it's gorgeous! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post by: Glas Vasen on March 09, 2011, 09:20:10 PM
Ohh Chopin-liszt

Once I see your Image I was too hastiness :O(     so isn’t my Day.

Oh well still you saved my day. Your Link from Isle of wight, was a Interesting Presentation from the Undercliff Process, and for remember how much Knowledge and quality patience this taken (need)

 :sun: Laugh at myself, if more I here write, gets my English better. I guess still my words up set down.


Sergio
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Post by: Trebor on March 09, 2011, 10:08:51 PM
Well sue if i can acquire the skill and taste in picking my pieces that you obversely have i will be a Happy man :sc: :or:
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Post by: flying free on March 09, 2011, 11:27:13 PM
Sue, trust me, the envy is all mine - your collection is truly beautiful  :mrgreen: As soon as I get a minute I'm going to closely examine all the pieces in your pics (and the others as well). 
Rosie, thanks :-[ I do like space around my glass so I can see each piece.  But I am also currently trying to focus on the pieces I want to keep, and sell the rest (my collecting has got ridiculous over the years and we can now hardly get into our spare room.)  I'm  being very strict on what I buy so if it doesn't fit, I don't buy it.   I love your birds.  I only have two, both tiny, one I gave to my son as a stocking present actually (blue bird of happiness).
 I've loved seeing everyones glass, it's heaven to look at all the pieces and think 'oooh that would be perfect'.  Kind of like having a glass fair right here ;D
My older teenage son has just had his room decorated to his choice (all white, sheepskin rug, stainless steel lighting etc) and has chosen two large red Aseda bubble bud vases for his shelves  ;D  I think he has a collecting bug as well  ::)
m
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 10, 2011, 01:05:09 PM
Glas Vasen - I wonder if your piece might be by Chris Lucas?

To get a good picture of a signature, put a little bit of talcum powder or flour over it, then rub over with your finger.
The powder will stay in the engraving and make it easier to read. :thup:


flying free - if you are ever near Dundee, you would be most welome to visit - just give me a bit of advance warning!

 :hi: The same invitation is extended to other gmb contributors. :hi:

I'm always delighted to talk glass with anybody who is interested... and quite often to those who aren't.... :pb:
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 10, 2011, 07:25:27 PM
 :hi: For Michelle, a wee group of Ed Iglehart mushrooms, (taken with flash which really brings the colours out!). Are you still here, Michelle? - or are you lost somewhere in Ed's .... ummmm..... unusual website?
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 10, 2011, 07:30:48 PM
they brought a tear to my eye they are amazing.... Thanks so much for popping the picture on, so i can gage the size how tall is the largest one?
I really really want one of them now
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 10, 2011, 07:46:15 PM
That group goes from 2.5" to 8.5".
I did get another more complex one recently which is 9" - it's got a clear, sort of exploded open mushroom case bit at the bottom - the same (but individually different) as the taller one in the image on the page facing the Contents list of Hajdamach's 20th Century British Glass.

If you want one, just ask Ed. His normal mushrooms are not expensive, he's really friendly. When I first saw his Wizard cone lamp in the Scottish glass Society Exhibition 2000, IT WAS SOLD! :thud:
However, not deterred, I got Ed's telephone number from the Exhibition organisers and just called him up to ask him to make me a couple of them, which he duly did and sent them to me.
Michael and I have even been to visit him - which was great, and  although glass didn't really feature in the conversation, this meant M joined in a lot. Ed has many interests.
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Post by: Leni on March 10, 2011, 07:59:14 PM
I've got one of his lamps as well.  He used to go to Art in Action every year.  He would set up his Yurt and hang his chandeliers from a huge tree.  He would give a demonstration of his glass working and talk to the crowd about the world from his point of view.  Lovely man!  I miss him now he doesn't come down any more  :-\ 
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Post by: flying free on March 10, 2011, 10:45:31 PM
thank you Sue  :sun:  I shall remember your invite.  I've never been to Dundee, I've done Aberdeen, Perth, Glasgow and Edinburgh all with clients up there, but never Dundee.
m
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Post by: jakgene on March 11, 2011, 12:08:41 AM
for Sergio /Glas Vasen  - re signature on your vase

the signature on your piece looks a lot like this one I have - which is from a piece of Shetland Glass made by Chris Rouse who used to work for IOW glass.

perhaps you can compare the signatures more closely. if you want a better quality photo please email me using the link at the side of my post.

hope I am not just confusing the trail further......

regards

Jackie
Western Australia


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Post by: Leni on March 11, 2011, 08:38:56 AM
Spent yesterday afternoon dusting my bedroom glass displays ;D  This is the 'worst' one - now spotlessly clean (and unlikely to be touched again for some time! ::) ) I even washed and dried each one of the 16 paperweights! :thud:  

The theme is 'Green, Green, Vaseline'   :24:  

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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 10:01:34 AM
Leni....what a busy bee you have been.....is the mirror glass-framed as well? It all looks so serene.....now I will have to clean my animals!
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Post by: Leni on March 11, 2011, 10:18:31 AM
Leni....what a busy bee you have been.....
Well, I have been putting it off for months!  :pb:  It's a major operation, which involves climbing on a stool (it's a high chest) and moving things with great care because everything is so crowded  :-[  ::) 
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is the mirror glass-framed as well?
No, it's a very heavy plaster job (which I hope is securely fastened to the wall! :X:  :-\ ) I painted it to match the colour scheme of the room. 

I had to finally get on with the dusting because my little guide-son (aged 7) told me when he came to visit at half-term, "These paperweights need cleaning!" (in his most imperious voice!  :24: )


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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 10:31:01 AM
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I had to finally get on with the dusting
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 11, 2011, 10:48:08 AM
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I had to finally get on with the dusting because my little guide-son (aged 7) told me when he came to visit at half-term, "These paperweights need cleaning!" (in his most imperious voice!  ROFL )

Having seen pictures of him, I can just see him standing there hands on hips!  ;D
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 11, 2011, 11:47:28 AM
 :sun: What a beautiful landscape you've created there, Leni!  :sun:

Jackie - I agree, Glas Vasen's piece could also be Shetland Glass, the signature looks very similar!

Glas Vasen - do not get concerned about wondering if your lovely piece and my bit might be by the same maker!

  :rah: Both Chris Lucas and Chris Rouse spent time training at IoWSG!  :rah:
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Post by: steph on March 11, 2011, 12:20:59 PM
 :rah:  I've not got time to be around much at present, but just have to say thank you for a wonderful morning..... I feel I could :dance: with joy at such wonderful 'sharing'.   :kissy: Actually it's a very humbling but uplifting experience to be part of such a dedicated and kn owedgable group.  Thank you all so much. steph.
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Post by: Leni on March 11, 2011, 12:39:54 PM
Having seen pictures of him, I can just see him standing there hands on hips!  ;D
;) He actually did that wipe-with-your-finger-and-then-look-at-it-in-disgust thing!  :24: :24: :24:

Steph:  I too have really enjoyed / am really enjoying :D this thread!  Such a lovely change from "What's this?", "It's ****", "Thanks" (or sometimes not-even-Thanks!  :-X )  ;D   

Of course the 'What is it?' element is a big part of what this board is all about, but IMHO it's not the only part, and I'm very pleased this 'show-and-tell' thread has been allowed to remain here and not banished to the cafe   :thup:
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Post by: steph on March 11, 2011, 03:05:42 PM
 :hi: Hi Leni, yes, such a valuable resource - I'm just a beginner, but learn something everytime I log on to GMB.  Besides the excitement of wallowing in 'GLASS' this thread has been valuable in giving me ideas on how to display my glass and use shelving creatively.  :hiclp: It seems some people are naturally creative... (I'm thinking of Roses bird bath!) I'm going to have to think about regrouping some of my stuff  :ooh: 
 :hi: steph
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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 03:13:22 PM
This is just a small part of my glass animal and bird collection.  They are in cabinets, so are relatively d*** free. Some of them are very small, so apologies if they don't show up as well as some of the lovely big glass vases you have been sharing here. :pb:

I have added a close-up of my kiwi collection  and have even taken you into my Loo!! :24: :wsh:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 03:22:01 PM
Ooops! Missed the Kiwi close up.  It is my tribute to the Christchurch disaster..........
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Post by: jakgene on March 11, 2011, 03:43:32 PM
I just love this thread because it makes me feel normal - I thought I was the only one who had glass on every available surface - but I see I am only a novice - I don't have any in the loo yet!  My overflow stuff that won't fit in the cabinets is packed away in boxes and every few months I do a complete changeover.  - I see I really just have to buy more cabinets! The present arrangement is quite nice though - it is lovely to unpack something I haven't seen for a few months and fall in love with it all over again.

 When the kids finally leave home I have said I am going to take back the games room  - which is 7 metres by 4 metres - and line all the walls with shelves backlit to display my glass. (it will cost more than my whole collection is worth - might have to up my handywoman skills first. )

 Can't wait. ;D  At present it is stuffed full of about 22 guitars (at last count) , a drum kit, several mandolins,  ukeleles,  a sitar and all the associated paraphernalia of speakers, stands etc.  Don't know who the kids get their collectomania from.......

When I've dusted I'll post some pics..... maybe this weekend I'll dust .....
JAK

Jackie
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Post by: Leni on March 11, 2011, 04:28:23 PM
Ooooh!  Lovely collections, Rosie!  :hiclp:  And in the loo, too!  :D  I really have missed an opportunity there, I think  ;)   
Jackie:  Normal?  Did someone here say they feel normal?  :thud: :24: 

I waited until my kids left home before I began to fill my house with glass.  Then I went and got 4 cats, to 'replace' the kids  :spls: ::) 
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 11, 2011, 04:45:54 PM
My loo, well all the books on glass have got to live somewhere (they are mostly out of shot)....

All very normal. ;D

John
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Post by: Alfies Dad on March 11, 2011, 05:29:10 PM
Ooops! Missed the Kiwi close up.  It is my tribute to the Christchurch disaster..........
Hi Rosie any idea who made the Kiwi's? I also have the one in Neodymium and would just like to say what fabulous collections you lot have.  :hiclp:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 05:32:28 PM
John, Loo seat cover down please, bad Fung Shui to leave it up!!   :wsh: (I.m waiting for Sue to say something now!!!!!!!)
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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 05:34:49 PM
Hi Alfie's Dad, :hi: thanks, glad you like them.  Most of the Kiwi's are Hokitika and there is a Schroeders one, and I am still trying to find out who made the Neodymium one....I'll let you know when I do...OK?  This is only a little part of my collection by the way!!!! :thup:
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Post by: mrvaselineglass on March 11, 2011, 05:44:44 PM
This is about 1/2 of the glass that I have on display in my office at home. 
All of it is vaseline/uranium glass, but some pieces also have cranberry, blue or amethyst worked into the piece.
http://www.vaselineglass.org/displaymarch2011.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/displaymarch2011.jpg)

Mr. Vaseline Glass
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 11, 2011, 05:52:55 PM
 :24: :24: :24:
I'm afraid so, Rosie! Not about fengwotsit in particular, I personally do like things arranged around a room in such a way as they say should allow thingy to flow, it's simply a pleasing way of arranging things.

but no, no NO - to loo seats down, pleeeeeeeese!

"Loo seats down" indicates that the previous occupant has left something very nasty there that they couldn't shift.

I get the heebie jeebies when I see a lid down, I start to feel queasy, it's often enough to make me decide to try to find somewhere else to go, but if I can't, the lid is lifted with extreme trepidation and control of my gagging reflex is already activated.....shudder.
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Post by: Leni on March 11, 2011, 06:04:09 PM
Oooh!  Mr Vaseline Glass!  Now that's my cup of tea! :t:  But what is that sort-of goblet on the top shelf to the right of the candlestick, please?  It looks very interesting!  :D 

I'm interested to see so many of your preserve / sugar bowls are complete with their metalwork stands!  I only have one tiny salt that's still got its metal frame!  I find it intriguing that while one might expect the glass to get broken and therefore lots of metalwork to be found, in fact it always seems that more of the glass survives!  :huh: 

Sue; we have a house-rule that the loo lid is always lowered, not because anybody has left anything nasty behind, but because the cats would almost certainly try to drink / play with / fall in the water!  :24:     
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Post by: mrvaselineglass on March 11, 2011, 06:13:22 PM
Leni: the goblet is a custom-made 'fish' goblet  (http://www.vaselineglass.org/whitehurstfish1.jpg).  
it is 11 inches tall and was made by a glass artist named James Whitehurst in the US.  I don't think he is currently making glass.  The eye is cobalt glass.  The cup holds a full pint (16 oz.).  I think he made a total of 5 of them, but mine is the only one he made with a raised/cupped foot.  Of the 5 he made, he said this one turned out the best.  He had been a glassmaker for about 10 years when he wrote to our email group and asked if anyone had any vaseline glass cullet he could buy.  I immediately wrote to him and told him I would send him 30 lbs of cullet (all from Fenton) and only asked payment of 'one nice piece'.  That is the result of what I received.

Regarding the marmalade and salt dishes:  A lot of them were bought without frames.  When I need a frame, I buy nice frames that have a plain or damaged glass dish in it.  When I win the auction, I tell the seller to keep the glass and just send the frame.  I have come up with some nice matches that way.  

The only LOO rule at my house is the seat is left down, and the lid left up.  

Mr. Vaseline Glass
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Post by: meegs on March 11, 2011, 07:21:21 PM
Leni.
I'm impressed that when you actioned the "D" word you were able to get all the lovely glass back on your shelf!
I inevitably have pieces leftover and can't workout how I had previously arranged it all to fit!
Lovely to see your Hokitika kiwis, currently we seem to have huge numbers of Chinese Kiwis (and other native birds)flocking in our stores at very cheap prices.


Cheers
meegs
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 11, 2011, 07:51:04 PM
Lust alert here too that is an absolutely stunning fish goblet,
 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

(I'm confused though - a full pint is 20 fl oz.. 16 oz. of water weighs a pound though!)
And Leni, I used to have to howk Gremlin out of the loo frequently! :t:

I'm getting a little concerned about any future girlfriends/wives of your guide-son  >:D - I hope he is going to be taught to dust stuff himself when he is old enough, if it offends him so much!
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 11, 2011, 07:56:20 PM
All Dave's vaseline stuff could come and live at my house... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post by: Greg. on March 11, 2011, 08:09:17 PM
Hi All,

Couple of pics of some of my Scandinavian glass. The majority of glass in Pic 1 is Riihimaki, apart from everything on the second self, which is studio glass.

Pic 2 is a bit of a mixture some Mdina and some Czech/Bohemian, with a few other bits thrown in, due to growing lack of shelf space around the house.

Enjoy.

 :)

Greg
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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 08:55:14 PM
Quote by Sue:
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(I'm confused though - a full pint is 20 fl oz.. 16 oz. of water weighs a pound though!)
An American pint is 16 oz!!  I know, I know!!  It was 20 oz when it left UK!! Possibly evaporation in transit!!

And, to risk  :hj: this thread......If they tried to sell you a loo seat without a lid,  you wouldn't buy it.....you would say 'Where's the lid?'  :24: :24:

And even more important, every time you flush the loo, the air is filled with micro droplets of water mixed with the 'contents' of the bowl,  so putting the lid down before you flush is MANDATORY in our house, so much so, we have sel closing lids!!! and the hand towel is over three foot from the bowl. :usd:

Greg and Dave....lovely collections.....I'm starting to really like vaseline glass, and I am already a Scandi convert.  But Dave....I can't see all the birds on the bottom shelf!!!
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Post by: mrvaselineglass on March 11, 2011, 09:59:06 PM
Sue, as requested....the birds on the bottom shelf (along with an elephant and a few buckets)
(http://www.vaselineglass.org/birdsmarch2011.jpg)

and, these are two fern stands I put together to make one cabinet.  At the top of the picture is the framed cover of the 7th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Opalescent Glass by Mike Carwile.  As my two pieces are on the front and back cover, he sent me the proof sheet (autographed) and I framed it.  The pieces from the front and back cover are in this photo.  The Davidson epergne is top right, and the double marmalade in sterling silver frame is on the top (inside) shelf of the right side of the cabinet.

(http://www.vaselineglass.org/fernmarch2011.jpg)

Mr. Vaseline Glass
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Post by: rosieposie on March 11, 2011, 10:08:52 PM
Thank you Dave....it was me, the critterholic that asked for them. :kissy:  I specially like the ellie and the ducks....you can keep the buckets.

How fabulous to have the signed copy of the pictures of the pieces in the cabnet and on the cabinet...what a talking point that must make. :thup:
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Post by: steph on March 11, 2011, 11:02:10 PM
 :cheers: this thread is mind blowing   :thud: X steph
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Post by: flying free on March 11, 2011, 11:22:44 PM
I would gladly give a home to any of the pieces in this thread - the collections are really fabulous.  Greg, are you willing to divulge what the red piece is on the very left of your 'studio' shelf?  It's absolutely gorgeous.
If not, just a country will do  ;D 
m
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Post by: Anne on March 11, 2011, 11:47:49 PM
Gorgeous new collection pics...  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I'll have to sort out all my boxes and cupboards and get some more shelves organised now to be able to make pretty displays like these too!  :ooh:

Mod editing myself! Edited: to take the o/t bit out into a new topic along with Rosie's reply which has been moved to Cafe
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Post by: jakgene on March 12, 2011, 01:35:49 AM
That is beautiful Mr Vaseline Glass - Now I know exactly how my games room needs to look!  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

And Leni - I already have the cats - well 3 of them - just can't seem to nudge the kids out - perhaps when they get to their 30's they will leave.  But the cats are one reason I can't put glass on my window ledges as the cats always walk through them and sit on them to look outside. I'd be too scared of them knocking things off. Yes they are clumsy cats - rescued ones with various degrees of problems.....  Now where did I put that duster......

Jackie

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Post by: Leni on March 12, 2011, 08:38:44 AM
Mr Vaseline Glass - may I call you Dave?  I LOVE that goblet!  What an amazing piece :D  And I love your fern stands! They are just the sort of thing I need to fit in a small corner, now I haven't got room for any more full-size cabinets - run out of walls!  :24:

Jackie, I have glass all along my window sills, and the cats tiptoe through it and even sit in the larger bowls to look out!  The answer is Museum Gel! ;D  Or where the window sills are a bit sloping and the Museum Gel tends to 'creep', I use White-tac.  In fact, nearly everything in my house is stuck down with one or the other!   :24: 

Anne, am I safe from relegation to the cafe with this thread?  After all, cats and glass, and keeping the latter safe from the former, does seem to be a recurring theme here!  ::)   ;) 
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Post by: Greg. on March 12, 2011, 08:46:36 AM
Hi M
The piece you refer to is a British piece of studio glass.
 ;)
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Post by: flying free on March 12, 2011, 08:59:01 AM
Love it  ;D thanks
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 12, 2011, 10:44:00 AM
Greg, I love that red bit too  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: - pleeese, who made it? and I'm not sure whether the blue bit in the middle is one or two bits,
Is the iridescent bit Siddy Langley?
Is the white and black bit Sunderland?
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Post by: jakgene on March 12, 2011, 12:21:20 PM
Well I didn't dust but here are some photos anyway  :usd:
JAK
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Post by: keith on March 12, 2011, 12:23:51 PM
I can see I need to get some better display cases trouble is I'm very poor :cry: and can only spend the money on glass ;D,no theme just some of my favourites.....
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Post by: jakgene on March 12, 2011, 12:27:44 PM
some more - cabinets and close ups
JAK :usd:
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Post by: jakgene on March 12, 2011, 12:33:22 PM
and  more shelves - mostly perfumes and a few more weights
JAK
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Post by: jakgene on March 12, 2011, 12:35:38 PM
and some Frank Thrower

That will do me for now.  ;D

JAK
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Post by: rosieposie on March 12, 2011, 01:33:09 PM
Thank you Jak and Keith,  lovely displays all of them. :kissy: :kissy:
Is anyone else simply reeling with the sheer amount of glass we have between us? :ho:
We could have our own glass exhibition, and it would suit all tastes...... :sun:
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 12, 2011, 02:17:20 PM
I think Keith might just have won the biggest rose bowl contest. How big is that one in the middle top shelf of the second picture (assuming it's glass). If it beats Ken's 8.5- in one, you are the winner.
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Post by: keith on March 12, 2011, 03:12:59 PM
Always thought of this as a vase with crimped rim bit if size is everything then I've an inch more than Ken! :o
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Post by: keith on March 12, 2011, 03:16:49 PM
Been told not to post these unless I d----d first so I did as ordered,more mixed up stuff from everywhere....
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Post by: Greg. on March 12, 2011, 03:20:45 PM
Hi Sue & M,

There are 6 pieces of glass on the studio self.  From the left, the first three are by Sam, the fourth is Siddy and the Fifth and sixth are both Layton.

 :)
Greg
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Post by: flying free on March 12, 2011, 03:37:55 PM
 :smg:  I KNEW it!!!  ;D  so pleased with myself that I can recognise things.
(you mean Sam H don't you  :-[ - just checking otherwise I'll have to delete the smug icon)
m
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 12, 2011, 04:03:48 PM
Keith, i am a little mushroom obsessed, what is the white and blue mushroom in the second pic? with a couple of PW the same colouring
many thanks
michelle
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 12, 2011, 04:27:43 PM
Rosebowls are allowed to be egg-shaped, so I reckon that's an ostrich egg!
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 12, 2011, 05:06:59 PM
 :smg: Sam's work always makes me dribble,  :smg:  (did you spot my 3 bits?)

I love Siddy,  :smg:  got it wrong over PL.  :pb:  I frequently mistake his stuff for other folk's work though. 
 :-[  I thought the last Studio piece on the right looked like an oddly shaped and satinised Jonathan Harris "Horizon" vase!
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Post by: keith on March 12, 2011, 05:58:48 PM
Michelle;they are 'Regent Glass' 'Artistic creations in glass' well that's what it says on the base,never been able to find anything,if you google regent glass all you get is Regency glass ::)
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 12, 2011, 07:10:10 PM
thanks Keith, i do love those glass mushrooms.
Sue i will have to email him and get hime to give me a ball park figure on how much he would charge for a couple of his piece, they are fabulous, i especially like the more toadstool shaped ones
michelle
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 12, 2011, 08:05:03 PM
You can email or 'phone Ed Iglehart, but I don't know about regency ones. I have some nice Mdina and Mtarfa mushrooms, a Wedgwood and one or two others..... (but white isn't my colour really). In the back row, of this pic, (between two Sam pieces) 3rd in from the right, there is a tall, blue mushroom vase with silver chloridey trails and cap, by Annette Meech.
There is no doubt whatsoever that it is a mushroom.
I don't care what Paul or jp may say.  >:D
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Post by: keith on March 12, 2011, 08:26:38 PM
For Michelle....
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 12, 2011, 09:12:39 PM
ohhh, whats the one at the back?? I like that one alot. the cap almost looks like polished wood. Also whats the lilac one (im assuming it neodymium)
michelle
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 12, 2011, 09:30:26 PM
here is my remaining mushroom collection. About 3 years ago i decided i needed to get rid of a few for various reasons, i did have around 3 or 4 times this amount
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/MyStallSomeOfMyCollectionGroupLots#5583307571979666674
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/MyStallSomeOfMyCollectionGroupLots#5583307595789291778
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/MyStallSomeOfMyCollectionGroupLots#5583307719888815970
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Post by: Anik R on March 12, 2011, 09:34:50 PM
Michelle, wonderful glass mushroom collection! By the way, I'm also taken with Keith's big mushroom at the back.  :mrgreen:
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Post by: steph on March 12, 2011, 09:59:54 PM
Hi Michelle, lovely collection, I've just set my granddaughter out on a mushroom gathering spree...well sometime last year really...Had a couple of lovely ones from Rose(thanks).

now the  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: eyed monster prompts me to ask - whats the body on pic 29 of your pics. aaargh can you make sense of that  :24: ?   :hi: cheers steph.
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Post by: Greg. on March 12, 2011, 10:05:28 PM
Hi Sue,
just been searching for your pieces by sam, saw them lurking in the third photo. In one of your earlier Mdina landscapes was that a large textured bottle in amethyst I can see at the back? :)
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Post by: quill on March 12, 2011, 10:15:42 PM
...
but no, no NO - to loo seats down, pleeeeeeeese!

"Loo seats down" indicates that the previous occupant has left something very nasty there that they couldn't shift.

I get the heebie jeebies when I see a lid down, I start to feel queasy, it's often enough to make me decide to try to find somewhere else to go, but if I can't, the lid is lifted with extreme trepidation and control of my gagging reflex is already activated.....shudder.

Ditto that.  Plus, modern thought is that putting the lid down spreads germs.

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bad Fung Shui to leave it up!!

I can't help thinking it would be rather worse Fung Shui if I didn't get to plunk down in time!    :X: :24:

Absolutely loving this thread!  Thanks, everyone!
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 12, 2011, 10:19:21 PM
Steph do you mean the lady on the left of the screen?, Its a lamp she has a large globe shade on her knees.
To be honest i dont know anything about her, she was going for an absolute song in an auction and i just loved her so bid and got her for just £5, and she has been mine for about 5 years now and ive never even turned her on (no plug) but she is beautiful, very deco and im more into art nouveau.
Or do you mean the metal card tray at the front? unfortunitly both are repro's i cant afford the originals
Or do you mean the tall glass purple lady? she is Paul critchley, diamond isle sculptured glass
michelle
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Post by: steph on March 12, 2011, 10:40:57 PM
I've got a thing about heads & bodies, in glass I hasten you add.  Yes, it was the purple lady that grabbed me - so to speak.   :wsh: got me all excited, I shall have to go and do some research, that names a new one on me. 
 :hat: I'll take my dunces hat off one day and learn to download pics so I can show some of my glass.   :girlcheer (girl cheer, eeek) well, heres one for Sue, she got me interested in seeing what TKMax has on offer from time to time...
Got a few lovely pieces. so thanks Sue.  Also it's Sue who's responsible for our loo brush sitting in a large dusky pinkish, swagged Czech vase...sorry no flowers Rosie.  :rah: night all. steph. 

ps Anne I think we'd better meet up for that coffee soon!!!
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 12, 2011, 10:50:50 PM
Steph we collect his work, he is a really nice fella, i put some info on here recently about him. I also have an album of his work in my picasa
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,38981.0.html
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/PaulCritchleyDiamondIsleArtGlass#
In the GMB link there is another link to his site where he is actually making the lady in a different colour
You might also like this then steph, never have been able to work out who the artist is surname looks like beech?, it has been on GMB at some point
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/CurrentlyUnknown#5572078928843463122
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/CurrentlyUnknown#5572078955824557618
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Post by: rosieposie on March 12, 2011, 11:33:13 PM
I have to thank you for introducing me to Paul Critchley Glass Michelle,  I love his work, and John has said we will go over to the Isle of Wight to look at his studio....so I am saving up!!!

On one of your shelves you have an Alan Fox Fish from Western Australia....I think I might have bid for that with you....if I did, then sorry if I took you so high, if it is a different one, then I am so pleased you have one....I have a couple of his birds....you can see them here:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10621


Isn't this thread fun....so much glass so many variations of collections....and we still haven't seen JP's animals yet....do you think he has any??????????

There's a challenge JP!!!! :vkg:
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Post by: keith on March 13, 2011, 01:16:35 AM
Michelle;no idea where they are from,neither are marked,better pic' of the big 'un inc'....
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 13, 2011, 11:57:26 AM
Yes, Greg - it's a big textured amethyst bottle - the big bottle to the left of it is even more exciting!

(Credit to Glassobsessed for the photographic skills  :thup: )

Keith, your half-open mushroom cap is just glorious! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Better pic of the Annette Meech mushroom here.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/Annettemush2.jpg
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Post by: Glas Vasen on March 13, 2011, 04:54:49 PM
Delightful Topic Astrid  :clap: well done, we see so many marvellous Glass Objects

Keith, glossobsessed, Anne, Obscurities, Rosieposie, Paul S., Leni, NKP, Ju1i3, keith, Chopin-liszt, Lustrousstone, meegs, robertrobert, flying free, and other presenting wonderfully Collections of Glass.

In Switzerland (Swiss) we got no any suitable Museum or Exhibitions of Glass, only the Glass Maker got a kind of History Museum of hem self.




Ave
Chopin-liszt
Thank you for ur hint with the flour, I’m still Clarify on Chris Lucas and Chris Rouse.

I feel flattered (I think is the right phrase) I’m still struggling with ur language, oh well Google gives me a bit help with the Spellings.

Scotland I well know, on ours Honeymoon we was in Scotland, Shetland, Orkney Island and many Villages and towns, only the Loch Ness we haven’t seen.  :thup:
two Month ago  “January”  I was in GB York  280 Miles far away from ur Home. :cheers:


Ave
jakgene
Thank you for your Image with the Signature, I did compare it with my one. It seems to me doses are still different, I might be wrong but I see also C. M but no Big Letter R. Perhaps he was in a rush for he’s Tea Time and made it fast so M+R closer on it. I stay tuned and will u let know.


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Post by: flying free on March 13, 2011, 05:13:59 PM
Glasvasen, could it be Chris Lucas - CLucas?  Alum Bay glass?
Sue, what do you think?
m
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 13, 2011, 06:32:47 PM
I'm not sure Chris Lucas is still with Alum Bay, I think he might be on his own or running another Studio now.
I think Glas Vasen's piece is looking more and more like both his work and the marks are looking more as if they might read C.Lucas.
I know somebody who has a beautiful bowl by him - which had a disaster when it had been sitting in direct sunshine - the iridescent stuff on both sides of the glass reflected heat backwards and forwards inside the glass and it exploded.... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
I'll get him to have a look at this thread. :thup:
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Post by: Greg. on March 13, 2011, 06:57:51 PM
Hi Sue,
thanks for the pics, the amethyst club looks very interesting and unusal. Do you have any more info on that piece?
Thanks greg
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 13, 2011, 07:40:06 PM
It's a very, very scarce piece, made by Michael Harris, Greg.
It's utterly fabulous, one of my very best pieces - and it's really, really cuddly - you can hold it in your arms like a baby - but it's better behaved. :sun:
Ron Wheeler recently found and sold a signed one.

(he using an image of it as his collector's club membership card - see here:-

http://www.artiusglass.co.uk/id32.html

Peter Elliot had one which he sold perhaps a couple of years ago - it was at the same Fair as Ron sold his first signed Crizzle Stone. Over the years I have been told of two others - one slightly smaller but signed, and there's mine. So only 5 are known. And two of those are hearsay!

It's from very early on at Mdina - it's in "plain" amethyst glass, with no silver salts included.
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Post by: Greg. on March 13, 2011, 07:58:38 PM
Thanks sue, it's a stunning piece, when I first saw it I thought there can't have been many of those produced! I would certainly cradle it if it was mine.

I've got another piece that's not mdina but should be right up your street. I'll email you a few pics if you like as in high res.

Greg 
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 14, 2011, 10:22:41 AM
I found them just a few mioments ago Greg - thank-you so much :-*
...... I think  :spls: I am now suffering from unrequited lust....... :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Post by: obscurities on March 14, 2011, 02:24:10 PM
An updated and improved version of the coffee table group with the new modernist piece placed appropriately.....
Also playing with the new camera......   :-)

Craig
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 02:39:10 PM
That's a lovely grouping Craig......so bright and cheerful. :thup:

Here are my Isle of Wight group...with some Caithness friends and a huge rock of Rose Quartz!!
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Post by: flying free on March 14, 2011, 03:16:40 PM
Rosie the group of IOW are beautiful  :sun:  I was going to say I particularly love the hedgehogs but are they anteaters :-[ sorry but I wasn't sure - whatever I really like them  :sun:
Craig, your coffee table display is stunning!  Love the new vase.  I have this large dolphin edited to read 'fish' after Rosie's post below, of course it is a fish :thud:  ;D (11" long), that has the most amazing uranium glow even in daylight.  I guess it could be the same maker perhaps?
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 03:55:30 PM
Thank you m   :-* they are hedgehogs, not anteaters.......here are some more of them, a blue, a white, a green and two black ones....small & Large, and I just have to get the red one for the full house!!

Love your fish....I haven't got any fish..........yet!!! :wsh:

Keith,  where have I seen that mushroom before?????
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 14, 2011, 04:32:58 PM
 ;D
Rosieposie... what a gorgeous collection of Minimals and Maximals - getting all those together is no mean feat! >:D did you know that Isle of Wight have produced a new range of Azurene Minimals?
http://www.isleofwightstudioglass.co.uk/acatalog/Minimals.html
 :wsh:
Craig, I want your table lighter... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 04:38:04 PM
Thanks Sue.  :kissy:  I would have more, but I keep getting outbid :cry: I love them, and the tiny squirrel is so detailed and the tiny ellie and the new Piggy from the Cambridge Glass Fair.......and yes, I know there are more new ones....I WANT THEM ALL, AND I WANT THEM NOW!!!
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Post by: flying free on March 14, 2011, 04:46:55 PM
Rosie, I've amended my post to read 'fish' :24:  I'm an idiot. 
I've only a few animals and paperweights.  I do prefer vases to be honest.  I like seeing others displays with them intermingled but OH has drawn the line at animals  :cry:, so mine sit in a cupboard in the spare room.
m
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Post by: obscurities on March 14, 2011, 04:55:04 PM
I have this large dolphin edited to read 'fish' after Rosie's post below, of course it is a fish :thud:  ;D (11" long), that has the most amazing uranium glow even in daylight.  

Rosie, I've amended my post to read 'fish' :24:  I'm an idiot.  

Actually.... you are not....   :kissy:  :thup:

same colors...  but it looks to me more like a Dolphin or a Killer Whale without their Dorsal fin..... Most "fish" would have dorsal fins, pectoral fins, pelvic fins, anal fins and Caudal fins.

Dolphins and Killer Whales have Pectoral Flippers, a Dorsal fin (missing on your figure) and Flukes (the tail).  
Your figure is one fin away from a Dolphin or Killer Whale, and several fins away from any fish.....

 ;D

Craig
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 06:04:04 PM
Sorry if I have started WWIII !!!  :-[
What I meant was....I haven't got any sea thingy's! :pb:
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Post by: obscurities on March 14, 2011, 06:17:13 PM
No war....  I am really just being very sarcastic.......   :huh:   >:D

Craig
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Post by: keith on March 14, 2011, 07:08:39 PM
Rosie; did post the mushroom a few months ago,maybe that's where you saw it,got a couple of hedgehogs and a few other animals ;D
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Post by: flying free on March 14, 2011, 07:40:44 PM
 :)  Rosie, you are just fine  :thup:
 Craig, thanks  ;D  Must have been the hedgehog/aardvark/anteater confusion that got to me - then I read fish and thought uhhh.  Obviously it's all because glassmakers have poetic license  :24:
m
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 09:14:27 PM
Oh, that's OK then!! I'm a happy girl really. :sun:

Keith, what is that otter doing to the hedgehog!!!  :usd:
I like the Panda.......I haven't got a Panda or a Mushroom.....yet!  ;D
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Post by: Anik R on March 14, 2011, 09:22:28 PM
Rosie, I was wondering the same thing re. the otter and hedgehog, but decided it's best to keep my thoughts to myself...  :-X   I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm dirty-minded, you know.  :angel:

By the way, not that I want to complain or anything (though today I seem to be doing it a lot), but what happened to the glass displays?  It's lovely to see all these individual pieces and clusters, but I'd like to go back to the themes and how collectors display their pieces.  Pretty please. :usd:
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 14, 2011, 09:23:03 PM
 :24: rosie!! good grief i cant believe how your mind works  :24: Even i didnt spot that one
michelle
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 09:40:38 PM
I just though he was practicing levitation on the Hedgehog....I really don't know what all the fuss is about!! :pb:

Michelle,  you didn't answer my question about the Alan Fox fish!! :cry:

Anik, I put a display of IOW animals on earlier....did you miss it??
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 14, 2011, 09:42:44 PM
Oh yeah i see that too (now :24:), he is a hypnotist..
"when you wake you will believe you are a glass hedghog"
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Post by: steph on March 14, 2011, 10:33:49 PM
Hi folks, got my son here this evening so having a go at downloading some of my glass from around the house!

https://picasaweb.google.com/keznoa/20110314?authkey=Gv1sRgCKmR8L-gzaKkEg#5584065956060878642 (https://picasaweb.google.com/keznoa/20110314?authkey=Gv1sRgCKmR8L-gzaKkEg#5584065956060878642)

see how this goes?
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Post by: rosieposie on March 14, 2011, 10:46:45 PM
What beautiful co-ordinated displays Steph.......and wonderful photo quality...... :sun:

Who made that amazing face in the bay window?? What does it weigh?
Thank you for sharing.  :kissy:
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Post by: flying free on March 14, 2011, 11:02:49 PM
oh that was fabulous to look through Steph!  Amazingly beautiful pieces  :sun:
m
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Post by: bOBA on March 14, 2011, 11:13:25 PM
A great display Steph, an interesting and diverse range of quality glass that is bound to pique the interest of several GMB members from different sections of the board,

Robert (bOBA)
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Post by: steph on March 14, 2011, 11:21:31 PM
Rose - I've just looked at 'Bertha', she's signed by a Kment Jan, no idea what she weighs, but she's no lightweight. I'll weigh her tomorrow out of interest.  :wsh: now I really am off to bed.  :rah: night night, steph. :kissy:

Just thought, Jindrich might know something about KJ I'll have to ask him.
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Post by: Greg. on March 15, 2011, 11:53:39 AM
Here's another small grouping which I have recently put together of Czech brickwork glass vases, 3 designed by Jiri Zejmon and another thrown in by Jiri Brabec in the second photo.


 :)
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 15, 2011, 11:56:36 AM
Steph, gorgeous - (and organised, and dusted  :P ) what is the lovely piece in pic 12 (squat cylinder vase, thick and purples and bloues.)

I want your Blowzone! I've wanted one of those Blowzone bits for years, my brother won't let me have any. :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Post by: mrvaselineglass on March 15, 2011, 12:36:59 PM
I love that vaseline/cranberry coffee table display!  I am VERY partial to those two colors together!

A few more groupings from my collection:
SOMERSET (Rd. 254027) by Geo. Davidson:
http://www.vaselineglass.org/somersetgroup1.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/somersetgroup1.jpg)

IRIS WITH MEANDER by Jefferson Glass (USA 1903-1905).  This is every shape made in vaseline opalescent:
http://www.vaselineglass.org/irisgroup.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/irisgroup.jpg)

This is glass from a one-man shop in Washington State, USA.  All pieces made by Jack Loranger.  If you can come up with an idea on something you would like made in glass, Jack will try to make it for you.
http://www.vaselineglass.org/loranger17.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/loranger17.jpg)

RETICULATED CORD by O'Hara Glass Co. (USA, during EAPG era). This collection is a work in progress.
http://www.vaselineglass.org/reticulatedcordLL.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/reticulatedcordLL.jpg)

And...This was made by Richard Golding (OKRA GLASS) and it is his BLOSSOM pattern.  It was a commissioned piece and the first time he ever made a water set and the first time he ever made anything out of vaseline glass.  Each piece is fully signed and dated.  Seven tumblers were made, in case one was broken in shipping to the USA.  I love how the sunlight caught the edge of the far left tumbler.  All of the glasses will do that, but did not show in the photo.  For those not familiar with Golding's work:  None of the colors you see are painted on and everything you see is glass.
(http://)
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 15, 2011, 03:31:46 PM
Glas Vasen,
My friend has looked at your vase - his lovely piece is not signed, but it does have a label. He says your piece matches his though, and he has no doubt that it is a Chris Lucas piece.  :thup:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 15, 2011, 04:27:19 PM
This thread just gets better and better....GBarfoot, I like the iridescence of the clear glass brick vase, and mrvaselineglass, wow! What a collection!!
Sue, one day, when I grow up, I am going to have some Iestyn Davies Blowzone animals....years ago, I missed one, a lizard on a stone, that sold for £10....well I didn't know, did I?.....I do now!!! :usd:
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 15, 2011, 05:58:08 PM
I've got a green chameleon/lizard on a rock - it's on "midshelf" page 6 of this thread. To it's left, there's a tiny black and gold perfume bottle by Iestyn, but it's Ivo's now.

(reptiles and insects and mushrooms and snails and..... oh dearie, dearie me, I'm a little bit more beastly than I thought I was!  :thud: )
And how could I forget my dragons... (only one in glass, though - sorry it's not in it's display, Anik - my camera won't do displays any more, all my display images are rather old ones.)
This dragon breathes Uranium glass flames. (UV torch on them)
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 15, 2011, 06:58:48 PM
here's my 2 dragons neither as spectacular as a uranium breathing dragon
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/CurrentlyUnknown#5572070164719763074
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/CurrentlyUnknown#5572073228260760738
sorry mine are not displayed either, both no longer mine
michelle
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Post by: Lustrousstone on March 15, 2011, 07:33:20 PM
Welsh dragons (and other animals) to be found here http://www.glassblobbery.com/products.php
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Post by: rosieposie on March 15, 2011, 08:53:49 PM
I saw your Iestyn piece Sue, and I love the Dragons Michelle and Christine....I only have porcelain dragons....they don't count, do they?  :cry:

Oh goodness, just when you think there can't be any more,  you all come back with more beautiful displays....thank you everyone.... :kissy:
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 15, 2011, 11:27:01 PM
Sergio (Glas Vasen) here is another example in the same finish as your vase with label:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120698303233&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

So the signature will be Chris Lucas (A Touch Of Glass).

John
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Post by: langhaugh on March 15, 2011, 11:53:59 PM
Some fabulous glass and great displays. Reading the thread has also lead me to feeling a little less guilty about how I display my glass. I know that less is more, that you achieve more of an impact letting the pieces have room to breathe. But I also know that I just can't help adding pieces to a display, except for one case that my wife controls.  Looking at the other photos in the thread it's clear that many others feel the same way. I suppose the main thing about us is that we are collectors. So here's one of my cases, with no apologies for the clutter. The first pictures is of the complete case, followed here and in later posts by photos of the groupings within the case.

David
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Post by: langhaugh on March 15, 2011, 11:59:48 PM
Next groupings.
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Post by: obscurities on March 16, 2011, 12:01:10 AM
David.......  I have the exact same Seguso Pillow Vase in my collection....  Gorgeous stuff there......

Craig
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Post by: langhaugh on March 16, 2011, 12:05:20 AM
Third set  (and thank you Craig. A compliment from you feels very special.)
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Post by: langhaugh on March 16, 2011, 12:07:24 AM
And the last one. I've got a few more cabinets, but I think that's enough.

David
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Post by: obscurities on March 16, 2011, 12:11:52 AM
Are the three pieces in the third shot Gunnar Nylund "Sharks Tooth" pieces?

I have this vase.... purchased at an estate sale on a Sunday afternoon......

about 10 inches tall....

Craig
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Post by: langhaugh on March 16, 2011, 12:15:17 AM
They are indeed Craig. I've been trying to buy the bigger ones for ages, but they go for a lot. You've got a beauty there.

David


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Post by: flying free on March 16, 2011, 12:20:51 AM
Fabulous collection David  :o what is the vase in the third set, second pic down on the far left at the front please?  Short squat bottle vase shape?  I love it. 
m
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Post by: obscurities on March 16, 2011, 12:26:45 AM
David, A couple of years ago I walked into a 3 day sale at the end of the last day. The sale was really picked over..... and that piece of glass was sitting almost alone in the middle of a large dining room table.  I figured there had to be something very wrong with it..... I walked over and examined it and it was mint. Turned it over and the tag on the bottom said $15.......   so needless to say, I had to buy it......    ;D

Craig
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Post by: langhaugh on March 16, 2011, 12:36:06 AM
M: Thanks. That's a Goran Warff for Kosta. It's a fabulous piece.

Craig:  Don't tell me things like that as they only happen to me in my dreams. $15.00?
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Post by: meegs on March 16, 2011, 06:03:38 AM
So much lovely glass....
I've gone uranium green with envy!

Happy Saint Patrick's day (for tomorrow) :rah:.


Cheers,
Meegs
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Post by: Leni on March 16, 2011, 08:49:36 AM
I'm loving this!   :clap: 

But "Less is more" David?  If I owned a big enough house mansion, maybe! :24: :24: :24:

Here's another one I forgot about earlier - not an example of "less is more" again, I'm afraid  :pb:
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Post by: steph on March 16, 2011, 08:59:08 AM
 :mrgreen:   Wow David, that's another thrilling miscellany..some beautiful pieces.. makes me want to go and reexamine all the boxes up in the loft..some of the stuff up there has been packed away for three or four years.  Makes me feel so sad that I cant have it all out.

However I've decided that I just have to have a Dragon ...so shall be making an early call on Birthday monies!!!!  I'm just beginning to understand how weak and feeble I am....absolutely NO WILL POWER to resist glass.  :thud:

Sue, I'll let you know later who made the blue/mauvey/metal piece...She's Austrian, but I shall have to find my glass note book or I'll be giving you false information... :ooh:

Rosie, copy gone to village mag with edits...How about writing your story up in the Cafe' here, it's a nice eg of 'small world' coincidence.    :hi:  

cheers steph.

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Post by: Leni on March 16, 2011, 01:18:53 PM
Er .... Just one more (another example of 'more is more'  :-[ )   This theme is cut glass, in case you couldn't work it out!   :ooh:
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Post by: flying free on March 16, 2011, 03:41:15 PM
I do 'more is more' as well  ;D
these are in the bathroom - it's bright pink, with a black and white chequerboard floor so I think the cased vases look great in there.
m
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Post by: Leni on March 16, 2011, 05:53:43 PM
Wow!  I love that hot pink bathroom!   :sun:  You're right, those vases look superb!  :D  I really am missing a trick here, not having any glass displayed in the bathroom!  (Yet  >:D ) 
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Post by: Anik R on March 16, 2011, 06:44:11 PM
Though I've shown a similar picture a few months ago, this is how my glass is currently displayed.  My collection is mingled among other bits and bobs so that 'someone' doesn't really notice. It's limited to the living room wall unit, a small corner cupboard in the kitchen, and my bedroom (no photo of that, as the room is too small to get an adequate photograph of my glass).

By the way, as of yesterday and thanks to one very sweet soul, my Wedgwood owl collection is now complete.  I've got three owls which, in my opinion, is the most perfect of numbers to have.  I am a very satisfied woman. ;D
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Post by: rosieposie on March 16, 2011, 07:28:26 PM
This thread gets better by the minute....Anik, no, you haven't got a complete Wedgwood Owl collection...you havent got a blue one, a red one nor an amber one....yet!! Or a clear one!! :usd:
m, please be careful not to fling your towel around won't you....those beautiful pieces are awfully close to the edge.....but I adore the colors...amazing! :rah:
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 16, 2011, 08:17:49 PM
The view above my kitchen sink, it's looking a tad threadbare at present, I recently removed a load of candlesticks for 're-homing'. Decanters live on the microwave. :D

John
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Post by: Greg. on March 16, 2011, 10:04:09 PM
It's a very, very scarce piece, made by Michael Harris, Greg.
It's utterly fabulous, one of my very best pieces - and it's really, really cuddly - you can hold it in your arms like a baby - but it's better behaved. :sun:
Ron Wheeler recently found and sold a signed one.

(he using an image of it as his collector's club membership card - see here:-

http://www.artiusglass.co.uk/id32.html

Peter Elliot had one which he sold perhaps a couple of years ago - it was at the same Fair as Ron sold his first signed Crizzle Stone. Over the years I have been told of two others - one slightly smaller but signed, and there's mine. So only 5 are known. And two of those are hearsay!

It's from very early on at Mdina - it's in "plain" amethyst glass, with no silver salts included.


Hi Sue, - Don't know if you've seen this one for sale at present....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Large-Mdina-bottle-17-ins-signed-Michael-Harris-/220755072709?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item33660716c5
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Post by: Greg. on March 16, 2011, 10:04:40 PM

Hi Sue, - Don't know if you've seen this one for sale at present....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Large-Mdina-bottle-17-ins-signed-Michael-Harris-/220755072709?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item33660716c5
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Post by: rosieposie on March 16, 2011, 10:50:29 PM
I thought you might like to see the 'holding' cupboard as you have let us see some of the less 'themed' items you have.  It isn't the best picture,  but shows the love of glass animals I have.... :sun:

Oh yes, and I don't collect jugs.....I wonder what the large green one is, and the bubbly yellow one??? :usd:
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Post by: flying free on March 16, 2011, 11:24:28 PM
Rosie, I like those fat squashy satin glass ducks  :) who are they made by please?
thanks
m
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Post by: jonchellycain on March 16, 2011, 11:37:48 PM
I was thinking of you the other day Rosie, i found a pink langham swan, and i thought i bet Rosie would like that but i thought £10 was a bit over priced... are you now going to shout at me  :ooh:
michelle
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Post by: obscurities on March 17, 2011, 02:28:38 AM
M,  The hot pink bathroom is fabulous!!!!  I love the more is more philosophy!!  In glass and in color!!!
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Post by: Leni on March 17, 2011, 07:56:54 AM
Ooops!  Just one more I forgot!  ::) These aren't mine, their my DH's - yes, I've converted him to collecting glass, too (as in, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"  :24: )  It's in the kitchen, appropriately enough, as it's a collection of Anne Arlidge's 'Lost vegetable' glass castings!  ;D 
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Post by: flying free on March 17, 2011, 08:29:16 AM
thanks for your comments on our bathroom  :sun:  I love it too, couldn't stay in it too long or live with that colour in a living area, but as a bathroom it works brilliantly (been like that for 13 years so not going to change any time soon). Leni I absolutely love those pieces and the technique of her work!
m
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Post by: rosieposie on March 17, 2011, 10:43:33 AM
Michelle,  don't fret over the Langham swan, unless it is ever the large white 'cob' style one (they only made a few of those) I am not so keen on the 'flouncy' type they make. But thank you for thinking of me. :kissy:
m, the ducks are Leerdam, and are part of my collection....I have several of these, the ducklings and ellies, and also the sausage dogs.  I am still looking for an affordable deer, owl and fish.....even though I don't 'do' fish!
I love your veggies m, so much more interesting than the coloured pieces you often see. And of course the kitchen is the perfect place for them to be displayed.
Today I have to clear the kitchen windowsills of all glass because we are having new blinds fitted and they wont leave room for glass displays now! :cry: :cry: They will have to be squashed into the cupboard with the Leerdam ducks! :thud:
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 17, 2011, 11:01:57 AM
Yes, Greg, the amethyst club has been spotted and counted.
I've been considering asking a moderator to amend my posting to take this into account. There are now 6 known, (2 hearsay) 4 signed (one of the hearsay ones included in that). I think the information would be better in the original posting, because it could get misquoted if folk don't read this far on...... :fwr: pretty please, dear moderators, when you have time?
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Post by: steph on March 17, 2011, 07:49:51 PM
 :thup: at last I've got a free moment.

The big blue/purple/metal vase on the window ledge  is by Renate Korinek. I believe she's Austrian.

The Blowzone piece is nine layers of opaque glass with some of the facets cut through to the inner colour.  It took four goes before Kevin Barry at The Glasshouse in Dudley was brave enough to finish it, the three other engravers not willing to continue. At least that's what he told me.

 :ooh: Incidently I'm watching 'the' bottle on ebay with interest....you'r so lucky to own one  :mrgreen: cheers steph.
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Post by: ahremck on March 17, 2011, 11:17:57 PM
Well I finally got going and here are some photos of my "real" display cabinet - the others are too full to get a useful photo of.  This one is about to become a "Holmegaard" cabinet because I try to change it every few months.  After that Kosta Boda or Orrefors - haven't decided yet.

Photo #1 - On top of the cabinet - Vases mainly - 2 Scandinavian, 2 NZ, 1 Australian, 1 Scottish, 1 unknown, 1 pottery.  Three paperweights - 2NZ & my Studio Ahus "Fire".

Photo #2 - Top Shelf - Mainly Pwts - from all over.  the blue vases are from USA.  The latticino is the firts bit I ever bought.  10/11 countries represented.

Photo #3 - Middle Shelf - Australian Art Glass - Only one I am not certain about id the small wavy irridescent vase

Photo #4 - Bottom Shelf - Australian Art Glass

Ross
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Post by: steph on March 17, 2011, 11:24:43 PM
 :hi: Hi Ross, another great display - I'm amazed at how many times I've yelled to my husband, oooooooh I want a bit like that! This time I'm craving the yellow and green vase in the first pic.   :-[  Thanks so much for posting these. cheers steph.
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Post by: ahremck on March 17, 2011, 11:27:16 PM
While I am at it I photographed my decanters (the ones I use from time to time)

2 Orrefors, a Julio Santos (Australian art Glass), Webb & Cobbett & ANot6her English  - Richardson I think.

Ross
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Post by: ahremck on March 18, 2011, 12:41:40 AM
That vase Steph is a Monart - bought many years ago before I realised what it was.  I think it is an N6 shape.  It is c. 225mms tall

Ross
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Post by: rosieposie on March 18, 2011, 10:43:22 AM
Lovely displays Ross...I especially like the 'Hanging Hearts' vase at the back, left on the second shelf,  and who made the beautiful starfish?
Are any of your pieces by Alan Fox?  I love his work and find it very hard to come by. 
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Post by: ahremck on March 18, 2011, 11:26:26 AM
Thanks Rosieposie ;D

The Hearts & Vines vase is by Dan Carlson(USA)
The starfish is by Colin Heaney(Australia - now stopped making glass - designs fabulous silk)
Theere is an Alan Fox Pwt at the extreme left of the bottom shelf - part hidden by and Eileen Gordon Pwt.  See included Photos below.


There was a starfish sold recently on the local Ebay but I did not try for it
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Post by: ahremck on March 18, 2011, 11:31:59 AM
Ooops!  Pressed the wrong button.  Hope you like these Rosieposie.

Ross
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Post by: rosieposie on March 18, 2011, 01:34:48 PM
Thank you so much, Ross,  I love them all. :sun:
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Post by: langhaugh on March 19, 2011, 07:19:13 PM
Just to show not all my displays are of the "pack them in" variety, here's a few more groupings. OK., I admit my wife did three of them, but you'll never guess which three.

David
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Post by: Anik R on March 19, 2011, 07:59:04 PM
Very nice, David... I do like uncluttered groupings, only because pieces can be appreciated individually.   :)
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Post by: steph on March 19, 2011, 08:01:44 PM
 :pb: now why have I never thought of putting all the smoky tones together.....I just love that display David.  But my guess is that you did the first display with the Rhapsody vase to the left?  Thanks for showing us yet more creative ideas...cheers steph.
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Post by: art-of-glass on March 19, 2011, 08:56:16 PM
Top shelf hehe.

Dan
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Post by: keith on March 19, 2011, 09:16:44 PM
Back to bathrooms,odd mix ;D
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Post by: Anik R on March 19, 2011, 09:18:21 PM
Dan, I love the pieces on your top shelf!  :mrgreen:
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Post by: rosieposie on March 19, 2011, 09:23:42 PM
Hi Dan, lovely fishes, perfectly arranged....I haven't got any fishes......yet!

Can we have the next shelf now please?? ;D

Nice bird Keith..... :sun:
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Post by: langhaugh on March 19, 2011, 09:35:30 PM
Dan:   Nice top shelf grouping. Who did the big plate?

David
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Post by: davidfish1212 on March 20, 2011, 11:29:40 AM
Hi all, I'm loving this thread, my other half still doesn't get the whole glass obsession so I'm limited to the conservatory for any displays, the rest of my collection languishes, in the attic, in boxes, waiting for its turn to get out!!
I change the groups fairly frequently, and at the moment its groupings of Riihamaki, Czech and Mdina. Compared to some of the other fantastic displays my collection is quite basic, but its what floats my boat.
Cheers, David :sc:
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Post by: obscurities on March 20, 2011, 04:35:51 PM
Since we are admitting we have bathroom glass......  I am including an image of ours... mixed with a little ceramic and metal...

And to prove that I can adhere to the "less is more" philosophy held dear by some members, I am including a couple of "less is more" arrangements in the house......

Peggy pointed out to me when I showed her the pictures that they really represent "less is necessary" because the spaces are small.....   ;D

Craig
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Post by: obscurities on March 20, 2011, 04:50:59 PM
and to prove that it is possible to display a piece of glass alone (without other glass)  I submit the following....... also from the living room.....

Craig

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Post by: obscurities on March 20, 2011, 04:53:39 PM
OK..... I lied.....  I confess......

Craig
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Post by: Anik R on March 20, 2011, 05:10:08 PM
Oh Craig...  :24:

By the way, I really like the lamps...  they're lovely!
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Post by: pl79 on March 20, 2011, 05:17:26 PM
My loo, well all the books on glass have got to live somewhere (they are mostly out of shot)....

All very normal. ;D

John
HI glassobsessed, I love your loo! Can you tell me anything about the blue knobbly bottle top left? I have one similar and do not know what it is. (apart from being a blue knobbly glass bottle of course!)
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Post by: obscurities on March 20, 2011, 05:28:09 PM
Thanks Anik....  They are two of my favorite lamps....
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Post by: flying free on March 20, 2011, 06:09:02 PM
I'm loving the 'less is more' theme  - my favourite.  I like to see the outline and the colour of each piece of glass but all the display are just amazing!  David I love the display of Riihimaen Lasi vases.  Craig, they're all gorgeous,  you have a beautiful collection (especially love the opaline/alabastro perfume bottle) but please tell me the little pot under the modernist lamp isn't glass or I'll have a serious envy attack  :mrgreen:  It's really beautiful.
m

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Post by: rosieposie on March 20, 2011, 06:11:46 PM
I am still swooning from the last batch, then along comes all this wonderful glass...............Craig and David,  thank you so much. :kissy:
Craig, the dancer in the bathroom....has she got a head???????? :huh:
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Post by: langhaugh on March 20, 2011, 06:12:24 PM
Craig:  I'd say your  philosophy is more "gorgeous is gorgeous" more than "less is more." And, to reveal my own bias, wonderfully eclectic.

David
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Post by: langhaugh on March 20, 2011, 06:49:43 PM
Thanks to everyone whose posted so far, particularly Astrid, who started the thread. I've really enjoyed seeing everybody's glass, and I've also enjoyed looking at at my arrangements again. After leaving the displays pretty static for a few months, I've found I'm going back and rearranging all the shelves, some in a big way, some in a minor way,  that were in the original photographs.  The last set includes the rest of the themed displays from my cave, er, room. The other glass will stay unrecognized for now.

David
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Post by: obscurities on March 20, 2011, 06:52:40 PM
m... Are you referring to the skull in the middle under the copper bodied lamp?
  
The perfumes are all Peggy's, which is a collection she has accumulated through gifts from me.... I believe the Alabasto piece is a Seguso piece...... The two on the bottom shelf to the left and right of the center post are both Seguso with a period label.... :thup:

Rosieposie... yes the dancer has a head....... It is just stuck in the clouds......   :)

David... Thanks.... and I love eclectic....  in all that I collect..... not just glass.....

Craig

Edited in:  Yes... a BIG THANKS to Astrid.....  the pics and exchange in this thread have been great fun!!!
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Post by: flying free on March 20, 2011, 06:59:02 PM
ooh  ;D yes I did, I've enlarged the pic now and I can see it better - it's fab!  You're going to say something macabre about it now I've said that  :24:
m
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Post by: langhaugh on March 20, 2011, 07:01:40 PM
The final four from my room.

D
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Post by: art-of-glass on March 20, 2011, 07:06:40 PM
Rosieposie & Anik: thanks, the other shelves seem to have become a dumping ground for paperwork...which is ok as when I glance up above my screen, I only see the top shelf  8)

David: The plate is by Willy Johansson for Hadeland, more pics: clicky here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/art-of-glass/sets/72157625480250247/with/5263822911/)  :)

glassobsessed: all because of that one vase, the following collection in these two pics is all your fault! lol  ;)
I know it's not the biggest Alsterfors collection out there though...
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 20, 2011, 07:14:55 PM
I did not force you to buy it Dan. ;D

 :mrgreen: over the Willy Johansson plate.

pl79 do you mean this bottle? https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/EarlyMdinaGlass#5503914249931460290

John
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Post by: obscurities on March 20, 2011, 07:40:36 PM
David, I really love the gold and purple (kinda) bowl in the first shot and the opaline/pink basket in the third shot. I love it all, but those two really speak to me loudly.....

Dan,  I love your shelves.....

m... here are some pics of it...  nothing Macabre to say... It is one of my favorite pieces... It is an old piece..... the snake is crawling in and out of the skull in an attempt to get to the frog, which is the finial on the lid. The frog is carved Ivory stuck to the lid with Gesso, and the snake is also carved Ivory....  I bought it a couple of years ago at an auction for a song.....  no one seemed interested in it.... I could not figure out why not...  it is a very very very cool little item..... I think it is an old Tobacco jar......  

The fact that you like it is simply a testament to what we already know to be your exceptional taste!!!   :thup:  :hiclp:

Craig
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 20, 2011, 07:50:12 PM
The frog does look a little worried. ;D

Lovely pot or jar, I would have bid too.

John
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Post by: rosieposie on March 20, 2011, 07:54:54 PM
I would like to add my thanks to Astrid for starting this thread......looking at the number of hits, I think it is obvious that we all love it.......THANK YOU ASTRID. :kissy:
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Post by: pl79 on March 20, 2011, 08:06:41 PM
I did not force you to buy it Dan. ;D

 :mrgreen: over the Willy Johansson plate.

pl79 do you mean this bottle? https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/EarlyMdinaGlass#5503914249931460290

John

No the one at the other end of the shelf far right, square shoulders, very knobbly- sounds like a man I knew once!
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Post by: steph on March 20, 2011, 08:08:32 PM
 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Well Astrid, I don't suppose you expected this kind of result, or maybe you did...perhaps it's me who's left with her jaw dropping with wonder.  I am so pleased that there are folk out there who collect in such quantities.. in live with it all over the house. .G my hubs has actually succumbed to oooing and coooing over the wonderful displays, and I'm desperately trying to remember whats in the boxes in the loft. I've seen so many pieces that stir memories. I think a long overdue re-look is on the cards.   So again, thanks everyone.  :rah: cheers steph.
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 20, 2011, 10:03:03 PM
That will be the one on the left in this photo: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/EarlyMdinaGlass#5443333966448149218

It's a textured bottle from Mdina circa 1970, design is by Michael Harris. They come in amethyst too and in three shapes.

John
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Post by: ahremck on March 20, 2011, 10:36:58 PM
Really liked that set of pictures David (langhaugh).  I try to collect Danish & Swedish glass & paperweifghts & let's face anything I fancy.  Really enjoyed some of you Holmegaard & Kosta Boda bits.  Particularly enjoyed your Harrtill glass - much more decorative than any I have seen here.   Hope to post a set of Danish glass pictures later today - my cabinet is nearly rearranged.

Ross
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Post by: ahremck on March 21, 2011, 09:28:35 AM
Well the Danish are almost all there.  Only a couple of large bowls and three Michael Bang pieces are missing - a Sakura vase, a spherical Atlantis Vase, and a very special paperweight - Peter Harder had never seen one like it.   This I will put into a subsequent reply.

On Top of the Cabinet - All Per Lutken designs I think.
Top Shelf - 3 Michael Bang at extreme left, 3 Kastrupin the middle rear, other 8 pieces are all Per Lutken designs
Middle shelf - All Per Lutken designs except for the owl pwt & the decanter(don't know who designed this version)
Bottom Shelf - 5 different Holmegaard designers PLUS the only non-Holmegaard piece by Dansk Glas Kunst( the one with the long label in the middle)

Hope you enjoy.

Ross
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Post by: ahremck on March 21, 2011, 09:34:49 AM
Here are the three bits of Michael Bang I could not find to fit in the display.   :-[

Ross
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Post by: rosieposie on March 21, 2011, 10:26:33 AM
They are all delightful Ross....shame we can't find out who the designer of the Kluk Kluk decanter was...I have a lovely bottle green one with the crown stopper in clear glass.  It has the full label on it ans was given to me by a Danish friend years ago. 
She also gave me a Humpila plate...both are beautiful, and at the time when she gave them to me, it was because I collected green glass, and I don't think I really appreciated the art that went into their making. 
I do now though!! 

I can't see the owl properly!! :cry:
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Post by: ahremck on March 21, 2011, 11:00:24 AM
Just for you, Rosieposie, an individual Danish owl by Christer Holmgren.

Ross
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Post by: rosieposie on March 21, 2011, 11:11:56 AM
Thank you Ross :kissy:
He looks like a cross between Marcolin and Mats Jonasson,  but then I suppose there is only a certain number of ways you can represent an owl.....I like him very much.....I haven'y got many owls.....yet!
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Post by: flying free on March 21, 2011, 02:22:07 PM
black and red group - otherwise known (to myself only you understand) as the glamorous group  ;D  None of my friends like these pieces - they all think they're hideous.  The comments I mostly get are 'my gran used to keep her fruit in that' and 'eurggh I hate those frills'  ::)
m
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Post by: rosieposie on March 21, 2011, 02:26:57 PM
Well I like them m,  maybe I'm a glamour girl at heart!! :sun:
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Post by: obscurities on March 21, 2011, 02:33:16 PM
I like them too......

Craig
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Post by: flying free on March 21, 2011, 02:52:13 PM
thanks, they're an acquired taste I think  ;D -  this shot is nothing to do with glass really but I never open this cabinet any more as it's slowly falling to pieces as the years go by.  The decoration is exquisite so I'll be really sad when it totally disintegrates.  This is an interior shot of the drawers and doors but the sides and top are also all decorated
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Post by: Paul S. on March 21, 2011, 03:09:06 PM
like the cabinet m  -  especially the decoration of glasshoppers and bugs.........is the black a real lacquered ground, and did it come from the far east - and what is its age?  If it's in need of some TLC, might it be worth having repaired?   Think I would want to keep it going, it is a real naive and wonderful piece of kit.
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Post by: rosieposie on March 21, 2011, 03:14:07 PM
I know someone who would kill  for that lovely chest, they collect anything with grasshoppers on it.....can you find a restorer m who would make a good job of it without compromising the original work?
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Post by: keith on March 21, 2011, 03:55:11 PM
Bit similar,with pottery and mother of pearl inlay,no grasshoppers ;D
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Post by: rosieposie on March 21, 2011, 04:04:53 PM
Oh very nice indeed....and you have Wedgwood hedgehogs as well......right up my street!! :sun:
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Post by: flying free on March 21, 2011, 05:44:28 PM
Paul, I'm open to correction here, but I believe  it is Japanese c.1890 ish (it could be earlier but I think around then). it has Mount Fuji on one side. The detail on the door fronts is lovely, all raised off the surface, layers of lacquer and gilding.  The sides are gilded with incredibly detailed pictures.  I've not managed a decent photograph of those sorry.
 I believe it is impossible to renovate or repair lacquer work sadly, well certainly to the extent this piece is damaged.  I think originally it was covered in some kind of chequerboard (silver? and black) all over, it would have been a fabulous piece and certainly done by a serious craftsman I think.  I've attached a pic of one of the escutcheons, they are all different, some are moths, some butterflies. As it stands I don't think it has saleable value really (despite me buying (sorry, 'rescuing') it 20 years ago in the same state  ::)).  But it has beauty and a lot of my history in it, as well as it's own history, so I hang on to it as best I can.
Glad you like it.
m
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Post by: pl79 on March 21, 2011, 08:46:54 PM
That will be the one on the left in this photo: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/EarlyMdinaGlass#5443333966448149218

It's a textured bottle from Mdina circa 1970, design is by Michael Harris. They come in amethyst too and in three shapes.

John


and here's mine! Thank you so much for your information, we've always loved it but had no idea what it was even though we have visited Mdina several times. :chky:
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Post by: Paul S. on March 21, 2011, 10:38:25 PM
no, no, they're not grasshoppers........glasshoppers please ;D
Fuji was immortalised by Hokusai the great C18 Japanese printmaker  -  so yes, your chest may well also stand a good chance of being from Japan, originally.   The art of lacquering was very skilled (and toxic) and apparently goes back as far as 9000 years bp (yes bp, never ever say ad or bc  -  very non academic)  -  and in view of its origins, was colloquially called 'japaning', in Europe.
You're probably right m, nigh on impossible to patch repair lacquer, even if you cud find the skilled labour  -  but no matter how sickly looking always love your piece. :)   I'm a great fan of these C19 pieces, and will swop you a lump of glass any day for the cabinet. ;)
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Post by: keith on March 22, 2011, 01:12:06 AM
Paul;forget Hokusai,it's one of Utamaro's beautiful Japanese ladies you want :o ;D
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Post by: astrid on March 22, 2011, 08:32:43 PM
All that praise is making me blush, honestly... with a bit of luck I'll be able to finish my new Peill & Putzler display (on the other window sill) this weekend, so I can still add it to the thread!

Astrid
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 23, 2011, 12:01:17 PM
That should be interesting, Astrid! I've got a small collection of shleiergraphit bits - but I find them impossible to display all together - it just ends up looking wishy-washy!

Ummmm, John.... re. the early big textured Mdina bottles - there are more than the 3 well-known basic shapes of tall square sectioned bottle, wide rectangular bottle and small square pot.

There are two heights of the tall square bottle, there are different neck finishes on them.
And I've got a few weird things - a shorter tall bottle with a slightly rectangular squareish cross section, and those much smaller bottles with the same texture as the very tall ones, in tortoiseshell and red and brown swirls.....
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Post by: glassobsessed on March 23, 2011, 06:33:49 PM
I know Sue, I remember photographing hundreds of them..... ;D

With the early textured range there are the three basic shapes, sometimes with variations (like the necks) or like my amethyst bottle that is a bit skinnier than the blue one (but it is still essentially the same design with exactly the same texture pattern). The tortoiseshell and red variations you have I think are later and after Harris left Mdina so they are not contemporary with pl79's bottle, the smaller round textured vases likewise.

John
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Post by: chopin-liszt on March 23, 2011, 06:48:31 PM
I'm not so sure, John!  We'll have to compare dimensions of the mid-height tall ones (I think perhaps they may be longer/shorter than the fully square  ones - certainly it looks as if bits of the moulds could be adapted????? anyway interesting to get actual measurements. :thup: )

I'm not so sure about my short ones being post-Harris either - he did design the Mdina Tortoiseshell pattern (sort of rowns and reds and stretchy splodgy), red/orangey glass was turned to streaky reds and browns using silver nitrate.
Certainly, these two I have are the only ones I've ever seen, they haven't been produced en masse, and they have the same texture as the big bottles.

I thought we thought that perhaps the moulds didn't actually stay at Mdina - you'd seen something from Mtarfa in that exact mould shape - and subsequent recent Mdina pws which have turned up with texture along the lines of the original do not actually match the original mould texture at all. But don't ask me, I'm all confuddled after just typing all that........ :pb:
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