Topic: What have you found on your travels?? Anything exciting??L@@k...

[pamela]

Anne, I thought 'Walther 1934 Lydia.jpg' is visible to everyone? 

LYDIA has sisters: XENIA and ULM (Walther 1934 Tafel 4
 

[bat20]

Sorry you'll have to carry on clogging it up, "Like" buttons are for Facebook not here.

Fair enough Anne...I read somewhere they can cause technical problems as well,I've never joined up to facebook.

[Anne]

Anne, I thought 'Walther 1934 Lydia.jpg' is visible to everyone? 

LYDIA has sisters: XENIA and ULM (Walther 1934 Tafel 4
 

Doh! Sorry Pamela, I didn't read the filename ... I rarely do as they are in most instances not very helpful.

[Lustrousstone]

How about a Loetz rainbow jardinière from about 1890 at a Mr Dickinson price. The opal inner is just a variant, as is the subtle irridescence,  and they don't all have four colours, though I suspect the "brown" might actually be two overlapping colours. No damage apart from some loss of gilding.  http://www.loetz.com/decors-a-z/rainbow

[bat20]

Corrr!..that's a real Bobby dazzler Christine.

[glassobsessed]

My favourite buy for some time is this little Bohemian vase, iridescent and with enamel flowers. The Powell straw opal shade is very nice too.

John

[chopin-liszt]

My recent "fabby" finds are far too pathetic to post after Christine's and John's.
sulk.
So I'll have to make do with a much older one. Some glass costume jewellery. The sort with the fake pink opal cabochons, made of multiple colours of glass in opalescent glass, over gold foil. This is a lovely set, each cabochon surrounded by 10 bits of cut amethyst glass.

[Paul S.]

well, it looks the part Sue, and if it gave you a buzz when you found it, that's all that matters.

[chopin-liszt]

Didn't you know I'm a (secret) collector of old foiled beads?
It's one of the joys of glass - that it can be made to emulate the most fabulous of gemstones.
I can't tell the difference between diamonds and cut crystal, so why should I bother with stupid diamonds?
Their prices are all fixed in the first place and they really are incredibly boring. Useful for marking glass, though.
I will wear this necklace vey happily, but not the clip-on earrings. Clip-ons just fall off.

[brucebanner]

Here are two of my recent favorites, i think the two (left and middle) are Czech 50's and the third on the right is signed, no idea who by, i think it might British studio glass,  i have had that for a while but they all seem blend in well on my best sunlit shelf.