Topic: green fruit bowl with green mat glass Art Deco looks with metal any IDs please

[lmj]

my bowl is 23cm across 12cm high and is a darker green than photo depicts the dots are raised as are the outside lines could this British and am i right about the age? Lynn

[Paul S.]

Hello Lynn  -  the answer is yes, it could be British  -  but might also be from the Continent of Europe  -  so again, have you tried all of Pamela's encyclopedic collections and Masterbuchs??   Age wise you are also possibly correct  -  I'd guess somewhere between 1930 and 1950.      According to some of the more knowedgable people here, it was not uncommon for the glass to come from one factory, and be married to a metal pedestal from a completely difference source.        Not easy to see from a picture often, and it doesn't look quite the right green for uranium  -  but have you checked for a 'glow'.    Do you in fact have a u.v. torch??

[lmj]

would i call the matt glass as opaque/etched/Vaseline ? thanks Lynn

[Paul S.]

my excuse - should I get it completely wrong - is that I can't see the picture very clearly ...........but, opaque/etched/vaseline it is almost certainly not.    Would imagine that the textured surface of the mould was such that it has produced a frosted finish on the underside of the glass (the top side appears shiny to me) - thus creating a translucent effect (i.e. allowing the transmission of some light, but in a diffused way).       This shade of green looks wrong if there had been some uranium present - and as you probably know, the only certain way to prove this is to use the u.v. torch.    Do have one?

[lmj]

Cheers Paul..frosted is what i will use,and i have tested the glass with my uv pen which at the moment is working very well for something inexpensive and Joe 90 looking ! and no it is not uranium glass.Thanks again Lynn

[Paul S.]

great Lynn, now all we need is an attribution..................quote today from lmj......"something inexpensive and Joe 90 looking !"..........sorry, I'm too young to remember that

[lmj]

  :chky: you'll just have to google Joe 90...Lynn