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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Trebor on March 30, 2011, 07:28:02 PM
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Hi , I can not Waite any longer. As i can not post you the pictures just yet i will tell you about them . They are . Height 85 mm, Width 140 mm. They are i think Victorian, Green blue with a pink internal casing with applied amber rim and feet, and yes they glow green under black light .The feet have a leaf motif. I have discovered that they are from the Stourbridge area perhaps Thomas & Webb . :or:
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Post the pictures in your gallery, and then post us the link, Robert :rah:
Carolyn
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Hi all i think i have fix my computer hopefully so i will be able to down load my new pieces of glass . Well my first ones are a pare of Victorian bowls . They are green or blue on the out side with a applied amber rim and feet .The inside is inlaid with a pink glass and under black light it fluoresces green Height 90 mm, Width 135 mm I think it is from the Stoubridge area
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:hiclp: Hi Robert -- Can you take them in Brighter light? Not sure if it me, or my screen, or my eyes 8) but it is hard to tell the color as everything kinda has a tint of blue to it...maybe it it just me here ;D
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Rose the blue effect is caused by the fact that blue light bends(refracts in air) more than red light. This means that photos taken under the eaves of a house are always slightly blue. This just looks like an extreme example.
Could I suggest Robert that you need to take them in direct sunlight - but a dull day will cut down shadows and reflections dramatically and produce a better result. Side benefit is that the extra light will cause your camera to "stop down" which has the added benefit of improving the focus.
Ross
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Taking photos so that the bowls are in the light from the window against a plain pale background but you are between the window and the bowls, i.e., facing into the room, might work too. Check that your camera is set to auto white balance.
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Hi
I think have sorted the color now so here we go again
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That's much better :clap: :clap:
Which bit fluoresces?
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Hi Christine its the mean body that fluoresces I'm trying to take a Pict but still struggling with this new program
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I think thats it :X:
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;D As I expected. They're probably late 19th C/early 20th C. They might be English or they might be Bohemian. I'm doubtful that they are Thomas Webb; the quality doesn't quite look good enough. And that is probably as good as the info gets.
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Thank you Christine . They do seem to have been made in haste .But still there my second pair on uranium glass :or:
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They won't have been made in haste necessarily, but workers were paid on piece rates and quality standards (i.e., what was deemed suitable or unsuitable for sale) weren't as high as they were now. In addition, items that were as much decorative as functional were a new thing for the working classes. They wanted things that they could afford and top quality takes time and costs money. It's like today, you don't go to Poundstretcher and expect Harrods quality. You want something pretty that you can afford.