Topic: Possibly amateur cut glass bowl

[ktinkley]

this is an oval flat bottomed bowl, I can't find any marks on it or anything similar pictured anywhere.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's an amateur cutting - it's uneven - the right side is higher than the left and the cutting marks are also uneven - so the mark on the right is slightly closer to the bottom of the bowl than the mark on the right - I tried to photograph it, but due to the curve of the bowl, I couldn't get it to show - is it likely to be an amateur piece or an apprentice piece?  It seems unusual in it's simplicity, and the glass itself is fairly thin and fragile. 

[Mosquito]

looks like a liner from something; I guess it would have once stood in an EPNS frame or similar. Doubt if it's amateur cutting, it's more likely that it left the factory like this, although if one side is lower than the other it may have been ground down later to remove a chip.

[ktinkley]

Now I feel stupid lol - the whole thing makes so much more sense if you think of it as a liner!

[chopin-liszt]

 

Sometimes what you might consider to be "amateur" might merely just be evidence of it having been hand made.
Old stuff often does have manufacturing flaws, the metal wasn't of such good quality as it is now, because of advances in the chemical composition. Annealing ovens were not as well controlled, all sorts of problems arose because of the primitive conditions of manufacturing.

Early on in a glass collector I know's career, he dismissed a large Irene Stevens cut bowl going for a song, because the metal had bits of frit and bubbles in it.
He thought that meant it wasn't right.

He was completely wrong - the frit and bubbles meant it was absolutely right.