Topic: approximations of value and id help needed

[uraniumsteve]

Hello glasstronauts

I have only recently discovered uranium glass and love it. Whilst on a car boot sale I found a woman selling approx 15 items of it so I bought them all. Only a few turned out to b be UG. I discovered I have a Walther and Sohne UG comport called Nymphette or something like that.There are a pair of unknown UG vases see pic and a small art deco lidded dish.I have a bagley tulip bowl in opaque green rd no 870064,an unknown two handled narrow vase type thing in the same colour see pic,A pair of Davidsons 279 10" vases in a very similar colour but a shade darker with D1/19ME on the bottom of one of them which has me confused as to what it is, a pair of Davidsons candle holders, a wavy dish, two very small dishes if you turned them upside down they resemble a classic parasol and two plates in the same pattern may be Davidson see pic. My missus reckons I just cannot stop buying old tat but I think she is wrong so if you can help me out with any info please do

Thanks Steve

[Lustrousstone]

You are much better posting these one at a time; mixed threads just get confusing. Some of these are easily identifiable, so post them one at at time with base shots and dimensions and I will give you some of the answers. Most of them are not uranium though

[chopin-liszt]

Hi and welcome!
You need to get yourself a little UV light - readily available as keyrings or in other small forms.
When you shine UV light on Uranium glass, it glows bright green rather than purple.

Well done on researching and finding out about so much of it, though.... :thup:
and I'm sure Lustrousstone can sort you out with the rest.....

There's also Mr. Vaselineglass, another specialist in Uranium glass here, (though I don't think he's here as often as Lustrousstone.)

[uraniumsteve]

Hello all
Thanks for the replies. I have bought my self a UV light so know which are Uranium and which are not.The W&S comport, the two vases which I have not got a clue about, the two plates that I think maybe Davidson, and the art deco lidded dish. So I will start with those vases as I dont have any clue whatsoever
Thanks Sorry I forgot to say they are just under 10" tall and just over 4" wide at their widest point

[Lustrousstone]

Your vases are possibly French, maybe Bohemian, 1880s/90s though to 1930s. That may be as good as it get for those, though they are nice ones.

Now start a new thread for the next one please 

[uraniumsteve]

Hello Christine

I have a few questions if you dont mind,what makes you think french,bohhemian,why did you need to see the bottom? what are you looking for? and when you say thet may be as good as it gets do you mean in terms of finding out more info about them, or I have bought some worthless old tat as suspected by my better half?
Thanks for taking your time to assist a novice :hiclp:

[chopin-liszt]

 

Christine wouldn't say they were nice if they were tat!
However, I believe pinning down a maker would be difficult, because of their age and many makers were not identified when they were made, though this was a popular style and many makers made it.

[Lustrousstone]

Bottoms of glass items can give clues as to how and when or even where they were made. Those two vases aren't tat; they can come and live at my house. In the the late 19th early 20th century there were hundreds of companies involved in glass in Europe, either making it or decorating it, and even more in the US. Company records have been lost for many, many of them, and wholesalers records don't always give who, if they give where. Everyone copied everyone else, just to make things harder.

The only way to learn about glass is to read message boards like this one, buy and read specialist glass books, handle stuff at antique centres, look at stuff on the internet, taking some of it with a pinch of salt, and never believe everything you see on ebay or read on labels.

This is just some of my collection and probably half of it is ID'd but more has a time period and a country provisionally assigned to it. I'm warning you, it's an addiction

[uraniumsteve]

He He do you have it lit at night? It will drive me nuts not to be able to identify stuff, I am like a dog with a bone. I have spent the time since your last post searching every variation of Bohemian French vase that I can think of. Found the shape a few times but thats all. I made a mistake those plates which are Davidson I have now discovered pattern 714 are not Uranium Glass. Here is a picture of my Walther compot/comport whichever you prefer

[chopin-liszt]

Christine's got a 4 ft UV pole light - and a lovely OH who will stand and hold it up so you can really appreciate her glass!

(I call it a tazza. It avoids the compot or otherwise problem. I just have a personal hatred of comport . Comportment is what young "ladies" did with books on their heads)