Topic: How does one identify "rock-crystal" glass?

[jinxi]

Fabulous decanter!  Coincidentally, I was trying to find out about rock chrystal the other day too! So I shall be interested to know what the experts have to add to this discussion!

Veronica

[johnphilip]

Please remember Rock Crystal is not the same as Rock Crystal style cutting or you may find the wrong info . :pb:

[Paul S.]

must admit I was going to make that comment earlier, and then thought it might seem a little supercilious coming from a thicky like me  -  there is also a mega difference in value between an item made from rock crystal, and one from rock crystal glass.     In history there have been some unbelievable things made from real rock crystal...but I don't know if there has every been a sizeable decanter produced.

[chopin-liszt]

There has. I've seen them in museums around Europe.
(My idea of a holiday is museums and art galleries by day, concerts in the evening. Used to do it a lot when I was well enough.)

It wasn't so long ago an ancient Islamic one was discovered - originally sold as glass.... it made newspaper headlines at the time.

Edited to add link
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,22854.0.html

[chriscooper]

Hi Sue, I use a Picasa web album simple to use even for me  :phew: get enough free to do a few hundred photos then it's something live $5 a year. Photos appear in a block just click on the 1st photo this enlarges it, then click the left or right arrows to scroll through the photos, on the right hand corner click on the magnifying glass icon this blows up the image then keep the left hand mouse  button held down to move the image within the frame. Also makes listing photos on ebay a doddle.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/107067405711297858658/MDINACUTICELOLLIPOPVASE#

Chris :sun:

[Lustrousstone]

That's not the point here Chris. People delete and move stuff around in their online albums and then the links here are invalid. The idea of attaching pix is to retain as much information on the board as possible so it is an online reference.

[chopin-liszt]

 :angel: I don't delete or remove bits, so the images do stay.
I've been getting myself in a right tangle between trying to both photograph and post images of this thing. I'm going to have another go at putting images here, rather than links but I've got an awful lot of rubbishy pics to trawl through and looking at them makes me dizzy ... I'll get there in the end.

[chriscooper]

To be honest I have put 100s of photos on here, posting them is not a problem even for me the main problem for me and I am sure many others is re-sizing them to fit the limitations set, also posted 100s of photos on the specialist site whitefriars.com without a problem (no restriction on size ?) much simpler. I am forever looking back on here at old threads only for the photos to have disappeared, so frustrating, sorry the advice was not aimed at Sue specifically just thought hi Sue was appropriate as it was your post. Just pointing out generally to anyone struggling to post a permanent photo on here here a good alternative to Tinypic etc is Picasa which is simple to use well laid out great for storing your photos on and I think pretty permanent, I have Lost count of the times I have clicked a link on here and it's gone or clicked on a picture on here and it's too huge to see, too tiny too see or it doesn't enlarge when you click on it, so I think one or two like me find it a pain to post a photo? and much easier to post a link to a photo they already have anyway in their album which is well laid out easy to use and does great 'blown up' images. I know Christine some people do delete photos but I think most like me and I know Leni does too, use them in the same way as we used  to do in the good old days take photos and pop them in an album and keep them forever. Probably not the point of the thread but you never know some other 'thicko' may just find it helpful anyway.
Chris :sun:

[chopin-liszt]

 :ooh:

I think we're leaving a nightmare thread for the mods to "clean up", so sincere apologies in advance!
I have been contemplating using picassa, it's one I find useful when others use it.
(but eeeek - it's something new to deal with, and my brain is fried.)

[Anne]

Don't worry about the cleanup afterwards Sue, we'll manage it.

It's interesting to hear views on the picture storage here as opposed to say W/f.com - the limits here are set so that the server performance isn't compromised by manipulating them (that's a memory hungry process) and so that we have the space to store as many as possible.

We could make the size limits bigger but in doing so we risk the board falling over more often, as used to happen before we migrated to this set up (as many of the longer-standing members will, no doubt recall.)

We do keep it under review though, especially as the board is busier than it's ever been now.