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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: uphoosier on October 29, 2010, 02:30:25 PM
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Any opinions as to the age and origin of this decanter are welcome. Lovely raspberry prunts on the stopper, ground out and polished pontil. There is also a bit of white debris in the glass. Perhaps Italian early 20th century? Thanks for looking.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-13573 (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-13573)
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-13572 (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-13572)
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-13571 (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-13571)
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Reminds me of this sort of thing: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,36860.0.html
John
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Yes, it does look similar but without any decoration, engraved or enameled. I looked at a couple of Italian glass catalogs from 2009 and they had decanters with similar prunts on the stoppers. None of them sold, so I makes me wonder if they were mis-identified by the auction house or if they are like all sorts of decanters - out of favor and no buyers.
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Looks Germanic to me .
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I think the same as JP
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You can get help for that Jinxi. ;D
John
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One word for you John BaaaH . :thup:
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Thanks, all.
Ken
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definitely Theresienthal !
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Does the decanter glow madly under UV light? - nice thing!
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It actually doesn't glow at all, but I'm still pretty pleased with my $5 thrift store find.
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Hi Thomas
What date do you think it is?
Hazel :fr:
Was sunny now raining.........
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Well,
in my humble opinion: it is definitely not Theresienthal. :cry:
Although it is now to be sold on ebay as Theresienthal. http://cgi.ebay.de/Antique-Art-Glass-Theresienthal-Decanter-/170559873711
Am i right: Found for 5$ and to be sold for minimum 279$ ??? :hiclp:
Please notice: Not every vessel with prunts was made by Theresienthal!
Kind regards
Stephan
http://www.roemer-aus-theresienthal.de
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hm who else has made it then ? :huh:
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Ehrenfeld, Oberglas, Poschinger, Heckert - take your pick.
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Koeln- Ehrenfeld sounds good to me in that case .. !
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I have no problem changing the listing. It certainly seemed that Theresienthal was the consensus here at the time I listed it. Note that I did not suggest such an attribution at all at the time I first posted here. Please also note that the price paid for an item is not in the least a determinate of the price asked for it upon sale. Anything in your collection you would not sell for 10 or 20 times what you paid for it? If you wish to purchase the decanter, you are certainly free to make an offer.
Thank you for your comments.
Ken
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There are loads of things in my collection I would not part with for 100 times the price I paid.
(*smug git*) :sun:
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i am defintely sure that i bought a few items for too much - but then - years later - i think they are cheap at the todays point of view .. !
but anyway its not about the money - collecting is fun - research is fun - to clean them and use them and in the evening with a cigarette and a glass of wine just to sit down and watch them ! and we all know that we can´t take anything with us on our last day.. !
so : carpe diem :rah:
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I am at an age that I have accumulated so much, I can't keep anything new unless something else leaves. I told my wife that I was going to price this decanter high. If it doesn't sell. I will keep it and get rid of something else. She gave me an evil look and said, "What are you going to get rid of?" I didn't have an answer - yet.
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Please also note that the price paid for an item is not in the least a determinate of the price asked for it upon sale.
I have no problem with that, after all that is partly what dealing is about. Unless of course the price being asked bears more relation to asperation than to reality, therefore making the item overpriced :o :huh:
Nigel
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Whether the price being asked bears more relation to aspiration than to reality will be answered by those who are going to buy or to buy not at this price.
Of course i have an idea, but :nogos:
Kind regards
Stephan
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Sorry Stephen,
I obviously didn't make it clear enough, my comment, was general, not specific to your sale. Since you've drawn attention to it in your reply, of course your quite right, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating ;) :)
Nigel