Topic: 17th century glass goblet with repair staples

[staceysteve]

I bought this goblet it is 4 1/4 in tall blue glass with etched paterns of a dog jumping a fence and a rabbit and a castle all in blue circle it is very heavy glass it also has a Crack which has been fixed with staple like Pins through the glass please help me. ..

[staceysteve]

Hello , I would like to know if anyone can help me with this goblet. I think it's 17th century english clear and blue glass that has been repaired with metal staples.It also has etched pictures around .  From what I have read they stopped using the staples in 1750. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

[chopin-liszt]

Hi, I'm sorry nobody has answered your other post about this glass yet, but not everybody is here every day. Please have a little more patience.
I'm going to ask a moderator to remove this double posting, otherwise things could get very confusing. Don't worry about it.
I'll say something about your dates in your other post.

[chopin-liszt]

Hi, you said in your other post about this glass that you have read that staple mending stopped around 1750.
That can't be right. I have a Davidson slag glass jug in the shape of a fish, which is mended with staples and that is a good bit later than 1750.

It is a really, really difficult and complicated thing to do - tiny holes of the right size have to be drilled into the glass, in exactly the right places and the staples added.

Glass was a luxury item and did get repaired rather than get thrown out, when broken.
I only have my jug because I wanted an example of a staple mend.

[Anne]

Duplicate topics merged, please don't repost the same item as a new topic. You can add a reply bumping it back up the list after a reasonable time (e.g. a week or more) but not more often please. I've also changed all the topic posts to something more meaningful which helps the Search option find topics later.  Please see the Help forum for advice on using the board, why topic titles matter, etc...  http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/board,22.0.html

[staceysteve]

Thank you so much for all your kind helpful responses.

[chopin-liszt]

There is a description of how to do the stapling in the archives, here.

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5386.10.html

(David E's "malachite" jug is the same one as my Davidson slag glass fish. Malachite is green, the jug is purple and white. Glass does sometimes shift between folk here. I suspect, as it was such a long time ago, we didn't know any better than to call it malachite.  )

[staceysteve]

Thank you so much for the link it was very helpful to learn the process.

[flying free]

It would help probably to be able to see the actual glass as your pictures are too small.
Could you reedit and post them at 600x400 pixels please - that should fit within the limits and should enable them to enlarge sufficiently to be seen.

Thanks
m

[chopin-liszt]

There is a whole load of techie info and help here;

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34093.0.html

on how to get the images sorted.

If you crop a load of background off first, (like you did for the second image) that can help too.