Topic: nailsea jug??? worth

[bubbadog]

i have a similiar glass jug to the picture shown,any info ,worth would be appreciated............

Mod: Photo removed due to copyright concerns..
Mod: Poster's own photographs added.

[Pinkspoons]

I take it that the photo you uploaded is not your own, then?

[bubbadog]

that is correct,,took photo of my jug but unable to downsize it at the moment, enough to 125 kb to show on here,,i have just found an exact match for the jug i own !!!!!!online at the bridgeman art library/nailsea type green bottle glass jug with white splash decoration c.1800 at /torre abbey/torquay...no clue at the value yet!!!!!!! any ideas?

[Max]

Sorry bubbadog, I've removed the photo as it wasn't yours.  Taking photos from other sites/people leaves the GMB open to copyright problems.   :cry:  Do have a look at this link and upload your own photo soon, we look forward to seeing it.   :hi:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6522.0.html

[bubbadog]

okay................

[Cathy B]

Is this the piece: Nailsea jug at Bridgeman photographic site?

It will be best to post an image of your piece, because it might be subtly different. Often similar items were made by different glassworks in different places at different times, and it can be very difficult to pin down a firm identification, especially for the layperson.

If you're still having trouble, email the photograph to me and I'll resize it for you. (Get my email address by clicking the email icon, which looks like an envelope, under my username at the left of the screen.)

[KevinH]

In page that Cathy linked to, the item is titled "Nailsea type green (bottle) glass jug ...". But the picture shows a jug with cranberry-ish glass - not green!

So how much faith can we put in that as a source of reference. But, they did say "Nailsea-type", which is a point in their favour!

[Cathy B]

How much faith can we put in it as a reference? None at all I would say, Kev. That site is basically a repository of stock photographs.

The link just illustrates the image that bubbadog had found, which might even be different from their piece, and we won't know until we see a picture of the jug in question.

[Frank]

Nailsea type is one of those throwaway terms, mean glass with spots or streaks marvered in. The example has several inconsistencies with the Nailsea glass shown in the Glass Study.

In any case, to confirm Nailsea would need careful examination by people very familiar and some good provenance.

[Cathy B]

 :hi: Hi bubbadog, I've added your photos to the original post.

The trick with images is to use a program such as Irfanview or Gimp, and then scale the image so that the longest side is no more than 700 pixels.  Usually this alone will lead to a file size less than 125 kb, but in your case, this wasn't enough, and you'll have to compress the jpg as well. (All jpgs are compressed, but you can take them down to lower resolutions  to make the file size smaller.) To do this, use 'save as', and you'll get a sliding bar with percentage compression - just drag to a lower percentage. Usually I wouldn't go lower than 91%, but yours needed reducing to 83%.

Hope that makes sense!