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Sklounion

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Créolite glass??
« on: August 17, 2008, 06:12:09 PM »
Hi,
Has anyone come across the expression Créolite as a type of glass? Mentioned in a Markhbeinn catalogue, but not explained. So what is/was Créolite?
TIA,
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Marcus
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2008, 06:22:55 PM »
it's the quality of being black (creole) but was not in use before the 1980s says wikipedia.
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2008, 06:27:47 PM »
I believe Creolite is a type of mineral with coloured bands, maybe the term is used for a glass which mimics this?

Just found this by googling, Creolite is given as a name of a red & white banded Jasper: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/jasper.htm
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2008, 06:54:46 PM »
Hi, and thank you both.
The correct term is Créolite opalis, as seen on page 47 of the 1932 Markhbeinn catalogue.  :-[
So this must obviously be some particular (patented?) formula for a type of opalescent glass. What is interesting is the manufacturer of the vase in question is not normally associated with opalescent glass.
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Marcus
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2008, 07:21:23 AM »
I have never seen black glass described as 'creolite'.

Could this be a patterning similar to Poppy Jasper or Leopard Jasper, also known as creolite?? 
I am a Crystal Therapist, as well as an addicted glass collector, ( I think the two go together well!) and I have several pieces of this natural gemstone, the patterning of which I think could well be reproduced in glass.
Here is a nice example: http://www.rocksonline.com/jscripts/tiny_mce/images/userPhotos/JASP_POPPY_BKGRND.jpg



Sorry mosquito, I have just realised you have given a link to this very subject :-[!!
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2008, 06:29:21 PM »
Marcus, you and I know that creolithe is an ingredience of opalecent is it?
Please: can we anchor here and wait!
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2008, 06:41:56 PM »
kryolith as a mineral was used in production of glass - mainly to produce something like 'milk glass' or 'opalescent glass'
you do not have to search for kryolith - glass : just see what kryolith is - a mineral helping to make/guiding to opaque glasses?
please excuse poor english  :cry:
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Re: Créolite glass??
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2008, 06:44:00 PM »
oops I forgot,  nothing to do with Jasper - JMHO
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