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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Rosie1 on July 04, 2009, 10:10:15 AM

Title: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Rosie1 on July 04, 2009, 10:10:15 AM
Any ideas on this one please. I think it's Alexandrite glass as it does look a pale pink in normal light but more clear and a little bluey under flourescent light. Also, if anyone has any ideas where it's from.
Size is 5.75" x 3.75" & 2.5" high. Quite heavy - 600g with smooth & polished pontil.
Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: TxSilver on July 04, 2009, 12:57:04 PM
It doesn't look like a typical alexandrite piece. Alexandrite looks lavendar or purple under incandescent and blue under flourescent light. Perhaps it has a touch of alexandrite, though, that it giving it the characteristic. It is hard to tell from the picture.
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Sue C on July 04, 2009, 03:01:32 PM
Anita is right, i think this is the colour you need to look for, my figure is very lilac during the day but at night look's as thought he has been in the fridge all day he is so Blue.
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Andy on July 04, 2009, 04:18:06 PM
I would lean towards Czechoslovakia as the most likely origin.
Good chance someone may know a factory. ;)

Cheers
Andy
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: TxSilver on July 04, 2009, 07:30:35 PM
The more I look at the larger pictures of the bowl, the more I think that alexandrite is a possibility. Perhaps what I was calling lavender could be referred to as pink by other people. After all, lavender is blue-pink. Sue's pictures is a good reference to the color. The second picture looks very pink.
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Jindra8526 on July 04, 2009, 08:54:54 PM
ZBS - Zelezny Brod, Czechoslovakia - or Czech republic when really alexandrite (from picture hard to recognise) or rather Chribska.

Jindrich
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Sue C on July 04, 2009, 10:10:49 PM
Mine is definatly Italian, murano, fully signed by the artist
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Jindra8526 on July 05, 2009, 05:08:08 AM
Well Sue, yours is however absolutely different.

Jindrich
Title: Re: Alexandrite Glass???
Post by: Rosie1 on July 06, 2009, 03:25:00 PM
Thank you so much to everyone for your help. I have so much to learn.  :chky: