Collectors do make mistakes. It's one of the ways we learn. Bitter experience!
But often mitigated by the finding of treasure.
Could you try to take another pic of the way the glass achieves the speckled effect - I can't work out how it was done from these fairly big images.
A plain white background (paper, or a sheet) is very helpful.
Sometimes background stuff can get in the way of how we see things and can cause reflections which can also be confusing.
Glass isn't easy to photograph well and get it looking the way it does in reality - it's 3D. If you're the one taking the pic, you already know what it looks like, so you can see it properly in the image, your brain fills in all the correct details for you and ignores bits that don't fit.
We don't have that advantage. We see the bits that don't fit and can't work out if they're supposed to be there or not.
I assume the rim is rounded and smooth? Or is that cut and polished?
There are even different ways of polishing a rim - some are left just flat, others have tiny bevels on their edges, which is an indication of even better quality. Those are called arrises. I like that word, so you got both the story and the word.
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