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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: keith on September 14, 2009, 07:54:06 PM

Title: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: keith on September 14, 2009, 07:54:06 PM

2 ins high,wear to the base I'd of thought English but the decoration says not,Keith.

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: dirk. on September 14, 2009, 08:49:01 PM

Schachtenbach in Bavaria and Novy Svet in Bohemia made a lot
blue / turquoise alabastro glass in the mid of the 19th century.

edit: just read the title and have to add that I don´t think it´s
pressed but mould-blown with cut rim and handles.

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: keith on September 14, 2009, 11:47:04 PM

Thanks Dirk,Keith.

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: dirk. on September 15, 2009, 05:07:06 AM

This seller has a beaker with a similar decoration on his site:
http://www.antiquitaeten-schlemmer.de/glas/glas-19-farbglas.htm

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: Bernard C on September 15, 2009, 05:15:02 AM

Keith & Dirk — I'm sure it's pressed, as the outside side seams appear to run through the centre of the handles, and you can see the slight irregularity where this seam curves into the base on your second photograph, Keith.

I've always believed that these were containers for prepared French or DSF mustard, potted meat, or something else along these lines, sealed with card and wax.   Blue appears to have been the C19 and early C20 colour code for both pottery and glass containers for prepared mustard.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: Bernard C on September 15, 2009, 07:06:24 AM

... and Colman's were the first to use yellow as the background for the labels on their tins.   This had the unfortunate consequence of convincing consumers that mustard had to be bright yellow, hence the unnecessary and supposedly harmless colouring additives found in some prepared mustards, even today.    As always, check the ingredients list.   You are safest with D-I-Y mustard powder in the tin from Colman's — even Taylor's, the oldest prepared brand on the market, has been recently degraded by the addition of a stabiliser, presumably for wimps who don't know how to mix in the few drops of liquid that used to form on the surface.

... and have you tried to buy sugar and sweetener free piccalilli?

Bernard C.  :hb2:

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: Cathy B on September 15, 2009, 09:12:48 AM

You'll have to make your own piccallili, Bernard. The ones we see here are so bright, you'd swear they'd fluoresce.

Title: Re: Blue pressed salt,i.d please,
Post by: keith on September 15, 2009, 01:24:53 PM

Sorry the photo was not clear,just had a look at the salt with a lens,can't find a seam,mould lines etc...Keith.