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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: RAY on February 17, 2008, 02:23:05 PM

Title: what is it ?
Post by: RAY on February 17, 2008, 02:23:05 PM

the only bit of glass i got today, it measures 16" long a very deep green/blue at the widest part, cased in clear glass, the thing inside pops up so you can hang it on something , the thing that puzzles me is the knobby bit sticking out on the end, there are two hole's drilled either side at the top for the metal cap which two screws hold in place.... anyone have any ideas what it is ???????????

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Title: Re: what is it ?
Post by: Frank on February 17, 2008, 02:41:04 PM

Part of a glass installation probably.

Title: Re: what is it ?
Post by: Sue C on February 17, 2008, 05:30:26 PM

Chandelier drop ?

Title: Re: what is it ?
Post by: Anne on February 18, 2008, 12:42:57 AM

Hi Ray, how about one of those lustres for a smaller lamp?

Title: Re: what is it ?
Post by: Frank on February 18, 2008, 09:10:25 AM

That centre rod slides out until the ferrule is at the cap - giving quite a long support visible above the glass. So it is very unlikely to be a lustre.

Logic for my suggestion.

At first I thought that it might be one of the many 'lightbulb' sculptures but the cap is not airtight and the lump is not the closing of an evacuation hole, plus the rod slides out so then I thought:

The nose gives it a dolphin like appearance and with the construction of the metal parts, the irregularity of the flashing all say to me a piece of Art. In the 70s/80s lots of largish glass collages were made and I doubt all got sold and must have been broken up at some point. I could easily imagine a hanging construction with the objects having different lengths of support to set the height of each piece