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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Andy on January 13, 2010, 08:44:54 PM

Title: UNUSUAL BOHEMIAN LITHYALIN OR HYALITH GLASS GOBLET (ebay live)
Post by: Andy on January 13, 2010, 08:44:54 PM

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370318475407

Hoped i was the only one to have found this very unusual item, but up to £100,
so reached my limit :'(
What a lovely item, i think description is probably ok, circa 1840
Lithyalin Glass,
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/history.htm

Nice enamel work as well!
Worth a look
 :-*

Title: Re: UNUSUAL BOHEMIAN LITHYALIN OR HYALITH GLASS GOBLET (ebay live)
Post by: Andy on January 17, 2010, 11:35:54 AM

Sold for £323 , and i was hoping to get it for a tenner  ::)

Title: Re: UNUSUAL BOHEMIAN LITHYALIN OR HYALITH GLASS GOBLET (ebay live)
Post by: TxSilver on January 17, 2010, 01:49:20 PM

Quote from: Andy on January 17, 2010, 11:35:54 AM

Sold for £323 , and i was hoping to get it for a tenner  ::)

Andy, shame on you! Reminds me of the old Irish proverb: He who goes into the auction house with a tenner goes home with a piece of modern Chinese.