Topic: What kind of glass is this? Orange with white spots in it..

[Paul S.]

Hi  -  there are many books on glass now available for you to choose from  -  most of them are not expensive, and perhaps for something like 100 Euros in total you will then be able to see differences between some of the important 'types' of glass.
Don't buy expensive academic books  -  what is important for you are books that have good quality pictures  -  it is what these 'types' of glass look like that is essential for you to understand...................   and of course do try to handle as many pieces of glass as you can.

Try to understand what is meant by:...............
 'cased glass'
what are the differences between:........     lead glass and soda glass ...........between cutting and engraving  .........  between acid etching and engraving ............   flashed glass and overlay glass   ..........    the different methods such as  -  pressed glass and mould blown glass and free blown glass.
............   and don't spend a lot of money if you don't understand what it is that you are thinking of buying.
and most importantly - buy only what you really like - and if that happens to be art glass from the first half of the C20, then you should end up with a lot of colourful and attractive pieces.

finally  -  my compliments on your proficiency in written English - it's very good. 

   

[flying free]

'Back to the glass, I'm kind of attracted to satin glass, opaline glass, frosted glass, milk glass etc.
And I understand it's hard to tell the difference when you don't know any history about it, or even
seen some of it in real life. Long way to go... But that's fine.'

me too my favourite type of glass really along with very old enamelled glass.

But.... I think it is important to understand the difference between 1830 (or even 1600s) opaline glass and 1960 opaline glass for example.  There is a huge variety and difference in quality and rarity and desirability (and therefore price) and of course there is a difference in how they made the glass opaline.

Some pieces that have all those things are very expensive indeed.
Others that only have one may not be expensive.  Don't waste your money, spend it wisely as then later on, you may be able to sell that piece to 'upgrade' to a better piece.

You could also go online and check out the photographs of museum glass collections - particularly those in the museums in Germany. There should be a list somewhere online. They have astounding and wonderful collections in the museums in Germany.
Also the Corning museum.
I would spend time looking at glass online and in books and working out what you like aesthetically. 
If you are near Amsterdam  there are at least three museums with great collections and more I think.
The Rijksmuseum has an online website for their glass collection including pieces not on display.

Then keep your eye out for those pieces when you are on ebay or out and about

Have fun, it's the best collecting area as there is soooo much to learn and so much variety.

m

[antonizz]

Paul S.,

Thank you very much for the compliment 

I think I have to start at the beginning. How glass was invented and made over the years.
The quality pictures are important indeed.

Thank you very much for your detailed input, this is really helpful to me.
Most people (well, there aren't many people taking the time to really explain)
skip the basics, and explain it their own level of knowledge. I'm glad you can
put yourself in the position of someone without experience:

"Try to understand what is meant by:...............
 'cased glass'
what are the differences between:........     lead glass and soda glass ...........between cutting and engraving  .........  between acid etching and engraving ............   flashed glass and overlay glass   ..........    the different methods such as  -  pressed glass and mould blown glass and free blown glass. ...."

Thank you!

[antonizz]

@flyingfree,

Just yesterday, in an antiques shop..  I saw this very beautifully green enameled opaline pedestal dish.
I came home later, and immediately started googling but I could anything unfortunately.
It had a silver (I believe silverplated) foot. That's why I started doubting about the age.
I really want to buy the piece but I'm not sure about it's age and value.
Could this be Charles X ?? Or is this impossible. I don't know why, but the silver foot
made me believe it wasn't so old. Plus he asked €100,00 for it. A bit above my budget (!!at the moment!!) haha.

The difference you talk about concerning the age of opaline, I understand how important that it.
The only thing I mostly do recognize is Italian 1950's/60's opaline. The pedestal dishes and lidded boxes.
Not always... but I'm learning.

About the museums, I didn't really know about online collections etc.
I'll check that out right now. Haven't thought about that really before.

Thank you for your help!!  (again )

[flying free]

wheww €100.00 is too much to pay for something when you don't know what it is in my opinion   unless you are a millionaire of course and I am not.

Rather than buying, spend time looking at online collections searching the GMB for information.
Just look at things for sale in real life, rather than buying them.
There have been multi millions of glass items produced over time - obviously a few have a high value and many do not.

Spend your hard earned € on books first

and by the way, mistakes still get made even many years later  - I bought a piece last week and realised within seconds what it was and that I did not want it    too late ... but NOT €100.00 fortunately.

m

[antonizz]

Well yes it is. For me too haha.

Excuse me for responding so late.

Bought myself 2 books today:

1 (Dutch):    "Recognizing Antique:  GLASS" .
2 (English):  "The Encyclopedia of Glass" by Phoebe Phillips"

It's a beginning