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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by flying free on December 24, 2024, 01:06:37 AM »
Report on Glass compiled by Jos D. Weeks Special Agent addressed to Hon. C. W .Seaton Superintendent of Census March 21st 1883 (This appears to be the document I was quoting previously I think?)

See page 25 for the information re quartz used in Bohemian glass:

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Report_on_the_Manufacture_of_Glass/IKs6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=is+bohemian+glass+quartz+different+to+sand&pg=PA1062&printsec=frontcover

small information on Stiegel on page 80
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Report_on_the_Manufacture_of_Glass/IKs6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=is+bohemian+glass+quartz+different+to+sand&pg=PA1062&printsec=frontcover
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Glass / Re: Val Saint lambert vase in petrol blue
« Last post by Tehewanek on December 23, 2024, 11:57:24 PM »
It is 21.5cm high

There are no etchings indicating the maker on it.
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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by cagney on December 23, 2024, 08:34:11 PM »
  The use of quartz as a silica base most interesting. I was not aware of this fact. Quartz being a highly pure form of silica there may be no need of a de-colorizer in the batch, thus their unfamiliarity with the properties of manganese. Much as the English unfamiliarity with the properties of uranium?

  Stiegels former career as a ironmaster and eventual inheritor of a local ironworks [he married the owners daughter] would account for the molds being made. Careful study of each different pattern in this series of bottles involving the extensive holdings at Winterthur and holdings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art show consistent anomalies in the molding of each different pattern to heavily suggest that there was only one mold used for each pattern.

  Regarding the bottle in the link [Pook & Pook Auction]; it is most likely blown from a gather taken from the top of the pot. This is where impurities would form and be ladled off before use, but of course not necessarily all of it. This especially true of open top pots, these may require more than one ladling during their given use of a batch. Early 19th century American price list this as"tale" [second quality] and sold it at a discount.
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Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria / Re: Czech glass / mnemonics drawings
« Last post by fontanazul on December 23, 2024, 07:56:05 PM »
Without a doubt Vladislav URBAN is a relevant piece of the VERTEBRAL column of modern Czech pressed glass,
whose virtual coccyx was the master Rudof Schröter.
                  *This piece was produced in Hermanova Hut´ pattern: 20070, in 1962
Sin duda Vladislav URBAN es una pieza relevante de la columna VERTEBRAL del cristal prensado Checo moderno,
cuyo cóccix virtual fuera el maestro Rudof Schröter.
                  *Esta pieza fue producida en Hermanova  Hut´ patrón: 20070, en1962
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Glass / MOVED: Mottled Glass Vase Impressed Mark
« Last post by Anne on December 23, 2024, 03:32:08 PM »
This topic has been moved to British & Irish Glass.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=73708.0
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British & Irish Glass / Re: Mottled Glass Vase Impressed Mark
« Last post by Anne on December 23, 2024, 03:31:47 PM »
Glad we could recolve it Howard.
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Glass / Re: Val Saint lambert vase in petrol blue
« Last post by flying free on December 23, 2024, 02:10:21 PM »
and could we see a pic of the top showing the rim and also the base please?

And what height is your vase in cm?

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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by flying free on December 23, 2024, 01:37:55 AM »
deleted.  - remembered that Spiegl showed the diamond daisy design as being 18th century:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://www.glas-forschung.info/pageone/pdf/farbglas.pdf

I wonder where Stiegel had his molds made?
another of the diamond daisy bottles here - the glass looks as though it has other colours mixed in
https://live.pookandpook.com/online-auctions/pook/stiegel-glass-works-cologne-bottle-18th-c-5352337
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by flying free on December 23, 2024, 01:21:26 AM »
The link to the Simeon Shaw publications is here - apologies

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Chemistry_of_the_Several_Natural_and/W4EOAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=the+chemistry+of+glass+simeon+shaw&pg=PA499&printsec=frontcover
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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by flying free on December 23, 2024, 12:50:57 AM »
Thank you so much for such interesting information. 

The link to the Simeon Shaw publication 1837 on Glass is here - apologies for omitting it previously:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Chemistry_of_the_Several_Natural_and/W4EOAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=the+chemistry+of+glass+simeon+shaw&pg=PA499&printsec=frontcover


I thought I'd read something about sand used re Stiegel (Steigel as it's sometimes referred to in old documents) but I can't find what I came across the other day now irritatingly. It was some old report somewhere.
I did come across this report on glass (written by Anonymous) published 1883, which may be of interest/contain some interesting info on glass manufacture per se although I've no idea if the info is accurate - anyway, it might be interesting :) :
Page 80 mentions 'Steigel'
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=svTzEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1123&printsec=frontcover&dq=1837+glass+making&source=entity_page&newbks=0&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

On page 75 it reads:
'As is stated in the chapter on materials, sand is but seldom used in Bohemia, Quartz, which is quite abundant, being substituted for it.'
Perhaps this might link in with your explanation re the violet glass?
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