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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: ardy on July 19, 2011, 10:44:05 PM
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There are a fair few of these around in square form and I have one myself, I hadn't seen a round one before. Looks close to AS and the size is right (7") but Cenedese seems to be ringing in the back of my head for some reason.
Any thoughts anyone?
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260814033718&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
If interested I may post some more photo's when it turns up.
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:hiclp: Very Nice ardy !!!
I have no idea who the maker is.....but for some *funny* :t: reason it kinda reminds me of a piece that I have here (but glows). http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,35491.0.html (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,35491.0.html)
Not sure why it is making me think that way.......?........? but Nice piece. Do post more pics when you get it!! :mrgreen: WTG :thup:
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That is gorgeous! stunning colour. Can I see a pic of your square version as well please? I love opaline glass and I have a square one that is cut. I thought it was possibly French.
Rose I love your lidded opaline pot as well! beautiful :sun:
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Hello Flying Free here is the picture of my other Archimede Seguso one. My stuff up it is alabastro and round as well!!!!!!!!!!! :thud:
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Ardy, I just found this. I see some similarities. http://cgi.ebay.com/ARCHIMEDE-SEGUSO-Murano-ART-GLASS-PINK-PERFUME-BOTTLE-/330590439802?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf8b9c97a
tam bam
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Ardy, I just found this. I see some similarities. http://cgi.ebay.com/ARCHIMEDE-SEGUSO-Murano-ART-GLASS-PINK-PERFUME-BOTTLE-/330590439802?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf8b9c97a
tam bam
Thanks Tami - yes these are the square ones that are in Leslie Pina's book. I like these items as they seem to point to a more genteel age when women had large bottles of oils and perfumes in a bathroom. Somewhat voyeuristic but there you have it!!!!!!!!!
Still looking for a replacement stopper for the alabastro one above think it will take a serious amount of time and the chances of finding someone with a broken bottle but a good stopper must be rare. Even if I found one it would still need regrinding.
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ArgHHHH!!! don't you just hate it. You buy off ebay and wait and wait for delivery, in this case 5 weeks and then it ain't nothing like you expect it to be.
Where do I begin - it is moulded, the stopper has never been ground into the bottle. It is so light a feather duster might crack it, in fact the stopper feels like it weighs more than the container.
The god of ebay giveth and the devil of ebay taketh away!
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I'd ask for a return then as it was advertised as Seguso.
m
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hi m - never sent anything that is working back before and the costs to ship it back make it prohibitive. Think I will just swallow my failure and look at the next piece that I KNOW is A.S.
I find that the photo's are not always great and it makes a rough id difficult and that was the case with this one. I have an antique dealer friend and he will not buy off ebay as he says he needs to touch and feel it to ensure it is quality. He is right but I don't have all day to wander around auctions and op shops looking at stuff.
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aren't they supposed to pay the postage back if it is misadvertised? it says Seguso. And you're saying it isn't. Therefore it is misadvertised isn't it?
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No ebay does not define this - some sellers do this but it is not a general rule. You can understand it from a sellers pov, take this vase for example I paid roughly $25 for it and shipping was $38 if they take it back the sale has cost them $101 less whatever they can sell the vase for. If this was the general case a lot more sellers would leave ebay.
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If it is uranium glass, which it looks as if it is, I would try reselling it as just a uranium glass perfume bottle, as it will have value from that PoV. Buyer beware as they say, we've all done it.
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Very true - and this is not my first. I saw a pink opalescent vase in the UK, after careful checks against books and internet I bought, when it arrived it just didn't feel right. Did more research and it is a piece from eastern Europe I think??? Will look into the uranium glass option.
Shouldn't have been such a smart arse and bought the one Tami pointed out. I got so wound up about a yellow one my brains went out the window.
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Ardy, it is worth persuing a refund.
I always tell the seller if it wasn't as described, and say I would like a refund please.
They usually say, send it back and they will refund.
I then say, happy to do that but would want reassurance that they will refund return postage.
They usually say they will refund original price and keep the item.
If they say they want it back but won't pay return postage, just leave a rotten negative feedback....it calms the angst anyway.
Poor you, very disappointing. :thud:
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Ardy, I'm sorry that the bottle is not what you hoped. I thought the rim did look a little thin to be A. Seguso, but I do not know all the pieces they made. Perhaps you can take a picture and put it on the general glass board. It may be something that is good. My first thought when I looked at it was that it looked German, but I didn't know.
I know your disappointment. I've done the same thing myself. Pictures can sell, and the picture looked promising. You can write to the seller and let him know it is not A. Seguso. Perhaps he will make the deal more palatable in some way. The shipping is very high, so returning would hurt you both. Perhaps you can work out a better arrangement.
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Thanks Rose and Anita but I will just check it to see if it is uranium and take Lustrousstone's advice and sell it on.
It is not the money it is more the loss of what I was hoping would be a good piece of AS - Need to grow another brain or get a better set of eyes.
The embarrassing thing is Alison said up front 'there's something not right about that stopper' and I ignored her as she knows nothing about AS or glass for that matter. Female intuition don't you just hate it? (If your male of course).
I think I convinced myself it is right, despite the little messages I also noticed like the thin edge that Anita mentioned.
There have been worse buys but I thought that was mostly behind me. :ooh: