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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: duncano on October 19, 2011, 03:11:32 PM
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Another junk market find...looks like a jelly mould superficially, but seems to be better quality with a ground bottom etc. It measures 9.5cm in height and 8cm across.
Anyway any info on it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Duncan
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am I seeing a small lip (ledge) just inside the mouth? - not quite sure from the pix.
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Hi Paul,
No it drops straight down for about 1cm. I think I see what you mean on the photos. The top seems to have been ground and polished and also the outside edge has also been ground as well to create like a bevel.
Hope I have helped more than hindered.
Duncan
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perhaps a little confusion here. Are you saying Duncan that there is a lip or ledge of sorts (internally), about 1 centimetre down from the rim?? - and then the moulding starts. Thoughts were that if there had been a lip at about that level, then one possibility might have been a butter dish. Don't think it is a tea mixing bowl - probably too small, and they were cut glass, usually. Aside from the ground bottom, I take it that the remainder of the body is simply pressed glass?
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The diameter decreases by a curved rim 1cm down from the rim. Its a very curved ledge! Yes I think it is definitely pressed glass apart from the grinding and polishing at both ends. Definitely not cut glass but still quite a weight at 0.9kg.
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Measure the volume. If it's a pint or half pint, it's probably a jelly mould. But it looks like a jelly mould to me.
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It's just over three quarters of a pint in volume!
I am no expert on jelly moulds but just seems that someone went to too much effort.