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glasswizard:
Glen started a wonderful thread about pressed red and amberina. I have had this piece for a number of years and it has always fascinated me.
http://tinypic.com/ajmtet.jpg  Standing apprx. 5 1/2 inches high, it is blown with a rough pontil. The base starts out a very nice amber  shading into a sort of red but the thing that is amazing is that the red then goes into blue at the rim. It has been a puzzle for quite awhile and I thought I would share it and see if anyone has any ideas.

Here is another pic, this time of just the rim http://tinypic.com/ajndqu.jpg

Thanks Terry

Glen:
Terry - fabulous!

I am not really au fait with blown glass, but quoting from Revi (19th Century Glass) in the chapter on amberina, he says:


--- Quote ---"The patent (for amberina) also provided for the development of a violet shade, and greenish, bluish and other tints through the controlled use of the caloric available to the glassworker by reheating articles through the small aperture of the glory hole, or the larger aperture of the castor hole".
--- End quote ---


Then later in the chapter he adds, with reference to "plated amberina":


--- Quote ---"hereby a piece of opal or opalescent glass, plated with a gold-ruby mixture, was reheated to develop a deeper color at portions which would blend into the lighter part of the glass, not sufficiently reheated to develop any color. When sensitive amber and gold-ruby metal (Amberina) was used, the result would appear in the Amberina shading; a sensitive cobalt and ruby glass mixture would produce a plated ware shading from blue to ruby."
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Not sure if this helps, but it's the best I can do  :shock:

Glen

chopin-liszt:
:D Hi Terry, I should think the info about heat-sensitive glass that came out in these threads should be relevant!

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,563.0.html

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1247.0.html

(Edited to add another thread reference)

glasswizard:
Thank you Glen and Sue. I will confess that Revi just makes my head spin LOL. Some friends of mine, in having fun, decided to name this type of glass "Fuschia Glass" because it reminded them of a fuschia. Ok I have strange friends. I think we should start a thread called strange and wonderful (although the wonderful part may be in the eye of the beholder).Of course in looking around here, I may have some examples that can fill that description. Terry

Glen:
I totally agree with you Terry, Revi makes my head spin too. I find lot of things that don't seem logical, and things that seem to contradict, but then I always assume that it's just me :roll: I just thought I'd try and look intellectual by quoting from him  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I always find Rubina Verde a weird sort of color. But it must be an easy one to make 'cos the Far Eastern fakers (!) have done repro Grape & Cable hatpin holders in it.

Glen

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