Topic: Victorian wasp catchers in cobalt blue?

[ju1i3]

I've seen Victorian wasp catchers in clear glass and one recently in light purple but until today I'd never seen one in cobalt blue. Has anyone else? I can't find much reference info about them. Any recommended sources?
(sorry no pics (yet), still thinking of buying this one I saw)

thanks!

[agincourt17]

Try googling for fly traps rather than wasp traps.

Here are 2 sites to start you off:
http://bugs.osu.edu/bugdoc/Shetlar/PCDevices/flytraps1.htm

http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2011/08/worlds-largest-collection-of-hanging-glass-fly-traps-on-ebay/

Still being made in a range of designs (probably imported from the Far East)

[ju1i3]

Thanks very much. Those sites look quite interesting. I will definitely read those. (I didn't realize fly catcher was the better term - useful to search for the right thing!)

[pamela]

I've got this also in blue - will try a photo later today 
Unknown maker, but very 'Saxony, Radebergish' - still need to investigate the DRGM number...

[ju1i3]

Pamela, yours looks quite fancy compared to the one I saw.

In fact, it looks like the "bottle" traps mentioned at the second web site. It looks like it started off as a bottle, as the site says, "with the bottom pushed in" (but not like the familiar design). Has anyone seen one of those?

OR is that the common one I'm familiar with, shown at the first web site? I guess they do look like they started off as bottles.

Just found this one which is not far off, very much like a bottle at the top, although "mine" doesn't have feet, http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Antique-hand-blown-Glass-Fly-Wasp-Trap-/251250037087?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7fab515f

[ju1i3]

I did buy that cobalt blue fly/wasp catcher I mentioned and have finally gotten around to taking a pic.

I still wonder if this is genuinely antique or some sort of reproduction.