Topic: Mid 19th century opaline vase with ruffled rim & blue pineapple knop?

[Lustrousstone]

Do you have a reference please Blair?

[kennyg]

nice vase...I love opaline!

[Glasshound]

Do you have a reference please Blair?

It's shown in "A Guide To Sandwich Glass: Vases, Colognes And Stoppers" by Raymond E. Barlow. I don't have the specific page handy.. 

/Blair

[Lustrousstone]

Thank you 

[glassobsessed]

Thank you very much Blair for the information that will be very useful. :clap:

As an aside, after looking through as many images as I could find of French Opaline glass I had my suspicions that the vase was not French. Nothing I could really put my finger on, just a hunch and I was beginning to lean towards an English manufacturer.....

Thank you everyone for your help. :hiclp:

John

[Ivo]

don't take anything for granted. And see if you can find a copy of http://www.amazon.com/opalines-French-Christine-Vincendeau/dp/285917236X.

[glassobsessed]

Ok Ivo I won't, what are your doubts?

If I see a copy of Les Opalines or any other book on glass going at a good price I would buy it. You can't have too many books (picked up two on caving yesterday in a charity shop), even a couple on glass I have had for ages that I thought were of minimal interest have turned out to be very useful and informative.

John

[glassobsessed]

Nearly 14 years later another one, lightning striking twice?

The bobbles caught my attention, almost look applied but there are what look like a few very faint mould lines on the blue section.

John

[thewingedsphinx]

As glasshound mentioned these are likely google  “Boston Sandwich free blown mold blown hobnail vase”
Also sawtooth vase pointy Knop instead of raspberry. I can send a picture of the Boston sandwich book if you like.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/free-blown-mold-blown-oval-hobnail-3825291598
There are more in this auction.

The picture shows one that arrived on my doorstep on Saturday..

[glassobsessed]

Where did yours arrive from?

I see some significant differences to the Sawtooth pattern vase which is similar, they have a different shape foot and far fewer crimps around the rim to start with.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/free-blown-blown-molded-sawtooth-vase-4690607581

Attributions that are 'handed down' and followed meekly are like a red flag as far as I am concerned, convenient for dealers and reassuring to buyers but often built on sand. I wonder at the chances of me finding two identical bits of imported American glass from this era.