... So I would look to researching Bohemian glass refiners for the decoration on this piece.
... The Vaseline crowd seems determined that only those colors that are yellow/green should be considered because they are so infactuated with the reaction when in fact colors such as Cambridge's Willow Blue which also had Uranium Oxide in the formula glows almost as brightly as their defined yellow/green colors. My point exactly! "Uranium" doesn't describe a color, "vaseline" does. Here is what you will not find...you will not find many (if any) members of numerous National US glass manufacturer collector groups (insert names here) refer to any of their manufacturers colors as vaseline, therefore it is inaccurate to use vaseline as a primary descriptive noun regarding US glass manufactured during the Depression or Elegant periods. By this reasoning we shouldn't refer to any color any other way than how the manufacturer that made it did.
I'm no collector of vaseline glass, I couldn't care less what people call it. But I think the reasoning behind rejecting its use is faulty.
My opinion only of course although it is I do believe shared by more than a few. Ken
So who did initiate the term Vaseline in its present usage? In the 80's (dealing days) I came across it used to describe opal glass and deep blue bottles used to contain Vaseline. It was never a very meaningful name for me and it was not my area. I always remember being confused by it - only since GMB days have I seen discussion to define it more narrowly.
Wow, I actually found a credible reference for an early date of the term! I'm astonished. A quote from this site: http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/vaseline_glass.htm
"There was also a new petroleum ointment on the market during this time period called vaseline, and the formula for the jelly at that time was the same color as this soda-lime formula of yellow glass, so coincidentally, people started calling the yellow glass vaseline glass. The oldest reference I have found in print is from N. Hudson Moore's book, Old Glass: European and American (c. 1924). On page 349, she writes, 'All the pieces shown in figure 207 are in this royal purple and canary yellow, which, by the way, no real collector would ever call vaseline, a dealer's term.' "
Those sellers again, always screwing things up, eh, Mike?
Give me an S&W Intagliod Caraffe any day ...and I'll show you a company capitalizing on the popularity of the term "intaglio"! More marketing maneuvers. ;) Using original makers terms and spellings adds to the complexity but it has its limitations. Generic terms are inevitably going to remain a part of glass collecting and from time to time they will change. But within dedicated groups of glassies - Frogs, Carnival etcetera, change will be resisted.
Assumptions about US/UK variations can also be taken apart, for example, Jugs vs. Pitchers are assumed to be such a variation but both terms were used within both markets by manufacturers in both countries. Is there a difference in meaning, or are they synonymous?
Kristi we will just have to agree to disagree. " My point exactly! "Uranium" doesn't describe a color, "vaseline" does." The reason the term Vaseline was invented/coined in the first place was because Uranium/salts/oxides, etc. were most predominately used in glass formulas that produced the yellowish or yellowish green coloration & it isn't the color of the glass that infatuates people, its the "glow" when its introducted to an outside light source. "Vaseline" was presumably coined because the color looked like Vaseline, which to my knowledge never glowed. The fact that the glass glows is a separate issue. Uranium Oxides were used in a variety of colors although admittedly later in terms of production eras, blues, greens (without a hint of yellow), etc. Uranium was used in yellow and green glass beginning in 1830 therefore the term is vaseline is restrictive when used to describe glass that reacts when its Uranium content is exposed to the outside light source, it ignores the fact that the basic chemical structure that is used in the batch produces the "glow". To ignore & totally disregard this fact & base it solely on the end color of the glass produced is rather pointless not to mention inaccurate. This is no more pointless or inaccurate than calling purple glass "amethyst" rather than "manganese." I would suggest the term Uranium reactive glass is more appropriate. To embrace the term vaseline to describe a simple chemical reaction & limit it to only glass of a certain specific color is simply not scientifically valid.
Uranium must impart qualities to glass beyond the fact that it glows under a black light, or it wouldn't have been used so successfully for so long before the advent of UV bulbs. Much uranium glass I've seen is a beautiful, rich color.
the fact that you can't tell until you get your UV light out.
Another similar piece, probably by the same maker, see http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,21310.0.html
Bernard C. 8)