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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: VintageMissy on September 23, 2011, 09:31:13 AM

Title: Cranberry vase
Post by: VintageMissy on September 23, 2011, 09:31:13 AM

We have been given this piece as a donation to raise funds for our hospice - I wonder if someone might be kind enough to help me identify the piece
It stands about 30cm high

Many thanks in advance
Sarah

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Title: Re: Cranberry vase
Post by: VintageMissy on September 29, 2011, 10:34:03 AM

Can anyone help?
please :)

Title: Re: Cranberry vase
Post by: Bernard C on September 29, 2011, 11:59:36 AM

Sarah — It's not Cranberry as glassies use the term, which was generally made from a thin layer of intensely coloured ruby glass cased in clear uncoloured crystal, like my preserve dish here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,43411.0.html), and generally is Victorian or early C20.   Yours looks to me to be a homogenous red or slightly purple-red, which would date it to the middle of C20 at the earliest and most likely post-war.

My advice to the local charity I help would be to put it on the bric-a-brac shelf at £4.99 and break open the champagne if it sells!  ;D

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Cranberry vase
Post by: VintageMissy on October 21, 2011, 04:12:57 PM

Thanks Bernard - its gone back to the shop with your advice. Much appreciated
 :clap:

Title: Re: Cranberry vase
Post by: jsmeasell on October 21, 2011, 08:17:58 PM

This is a recently made item, imported from China. I see these here in the USA with some frequency, occasionally with the paper label ("Made in China") intact.

Title: Re: Cranberry vase
Post by: VintageMissy on October 24, 2011, 08:35:49 AM

Thanks James - I will pass this bit of information on to them as well

Kind regards
Sarah