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Amberina Toothpick - American or Italian?
Sid:
Hello:
I have the Griscom book and she shows your toothpick on the very first page of her book. The page is titled "Contemporary Toothpicks" with no information beyond that.
I hadn't thought of her book before the posting above as most of it pertains to pressed toothpick holders. It is an excellent book.
I think an email to Pauline would be a good idea.
Sid
Connie:
Thank you, Sid. I have e-mailed Pauline and invited her to the forum.
I would be interested in her attribtution to it being a comtemporary piece. I am assuming that someone found one with a label but you know about assumptions :roll:
mrvaselineglass:
I think AMBERINA might be the wrong descriptor. It looks like BURMESE to me. There is also a lot of satin burmese that was made. Burmese will glow a bright green under a UV blacklight. Amberina will not glow green.
You might want to put a UV light on it and see what happens.
Connie:
Mr. Vaseline I respectively disagree. This toothpick looks nothing like Burmese.
Amberina is transparent glass which is red (or shades of red, orange, fuschia) shading to amber.
Burmese is an opaque glass which is salmon (deep pink) fading to a creamy yellow.
Maybe my pictures are just really bad, but this piece was transparent red to amber glass that was then satinized (acid etched).
Leni:
--- Quote from: "grayhorse" --- this piece was transparent red to amber glass that was then satinized (acid etched).
--- End quote ---
So why is this definitely not Burmese? :?
Can you explain the difference?
Leni
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