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Carnival glass? help with id please
« on: September 05, 2010, 05:28:51 PM »
Hi names Colin from Leeds here in the uk and just joined, bought a couple of pieces from a car boot sale the other week and though i have looked i cannot find them (excuse the newbie) so any help with identifying them would be much appreciated.
So the smaller one is this
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC00918.jpg?t=1283707539
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC00919.jpg?t=1283707557
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC00920.jpg?t=1283707574

the larger one is this one
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC00921.jpg?t=1283707599
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC00922.jpg?t=1283707617
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC00923.jpg?t=1283707632
they need a clean but im well pleased with my first purchases and all for the princely sum of £4 for the pair  :thup: :thup:
Colin

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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 05:42:42 PM »
Any help with this would be great thanks
colin

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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 05:55:44 PM »
Hello Colin,the second one is diamond and rib pattern,Fenton glass,will have  look for the other and get back to you,
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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2010, 05:57:05 PM »
Hi Colin - welcome  :)

Your first vase is Imperial's "Morning Glory" - your second vase is Fenton's "Diamond & Rib".

Well done - you got a bargain.

Glen
Just released—Carnival from Finland & Norway e-book!
Also, Riihimäki e-book and Carnival from Sweden e-book.
Sowerby e-books—three volumes available
For all info see http://www.carnivalglassworldwide.com/
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« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2010, 06:11:14 PM »
Many thanks for the replies im well pleased to have these two as the first in my collection thanks again

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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2010, 06:24:32 PM »
Your two lovely marigold vases are an excellent start to your Carnival Glass collection! The "Morning Glory" vase is especially pretty - this vase comes in three sizes, yours is the smallest size. It's important to note that swung vases (which is what these two vases are - "swung" describes the way they were made) are classified by the diameter of their base and not their height. In making them, the glass worker would have clamped the base of the hot glass vase onto a tool called the snap - he would then have literally swung it in an arc, the hot glass lengthening as it was swung.

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Just released—Carnival from Finland & Norway e-book!
Also, Riihimäki e-book and Carnival from Sweden e-book.
Sowerby e-books—three volumes available
For all info see http://www.carnivalglassworldwide.com/
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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2010, 06:27:49 PM »
Glen thanks for the information i have seen a video on you tube where they were doing exactly what you have just mentioned many thanks

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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2010, 12:14:03 PM »
After the vase is "snapped up," a worker takes it to the glory hole to get it hot enough so that it will be able to be lengthened by swinging (either back and forth like a pendulum or round and round like a baton twirler).

I think the video from Fenton's appearance on "Dirty Jobs" can still be found on Utube.
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Re: Carnival glass? help with id please
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2010, 05:55:25 PM »
After the vase is "snapped up," a worker takes it to the glory hole to get it hot enough so that it will be able to be lengthened by swinging (either back and forth like a pendulum or round and round like a baton twirler).

I think the video from Fenton's appearance on "Dirty Jobs" can still be found on Utube.

yes thats the one i have seen many thanks

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