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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: petet63 on April 03, 2012, 09:31:54 PM
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Just been thinking about all the bits of glass I buy and realised I have a vase that I bought but have never listed or shown as its better off hiding at the back of the cupboard. I have no idea why I bought it. It is quite a large vase and a lovely brown colour. What pieces do you have hidden from public view !!!
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/petet63/SDC11547.jpg :-\
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/petet63/SDC11555.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/petet63/SDC11548.jpg
P.S. Free to a good home ;D ;D ;D :o
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You've not seen my swan :o,it's not on display but I like it in a way,I think someone said it looked like it had been trodden on ::) ;D ;D
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Oh I am glad it is not only me!
This one looks okay at a distance - with the light behind it - but it is a huge clunky ugly thing close to.
Murano my foot! Definitely further east than that!
Jackie
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P.S. Keith - your poor swan looks like I feel when it gets to about 44C in the summer - sort of melted ! But still cute. (the swan - not me!!) Jackie
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I still feel I am winning this one ;D The swan is close mind you :D. Colour it brown and it would beat mine. The vase has a hollow stem and the pontil mark looks like the maker couldn't be bothered and let the vase fall off ??? The foot is so uneven. An end of a hard day 'sod it ..that will do' piece for sure. :-[ Its a mistake you only make once. I cant throw it away its not in my nature and would have to pay someone to take it I think. Its a reminder to be a lot more selective ;D ;D
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I don't really hide stuff, most of it is in my Picasa album (link in sig). I might forget to photograph it or lose the photo.
I like the vase in the first thread. Nice polished pontil i think. Unusual shape. I like the blue vase as well, i would have thought Czech with the blue side lobes. I would have bought it just to find out.
The swan, ha ha ha, you never know, it might turn out to be a rare Whitefriars flattie Swan! ;)
Edit: Flattie around my area is a kind of flatfish (dab, halibut, etc). :)
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I don't have anything I consider truly hideous, but I do own about a handful of very expensive mistakes ;D - I have taken to selling them at far less than I paid for them just to get rid - the things that may be considered hideous (beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all) generally cost a few pounds. So for some reason they don't offend me. It's the pieces that cost me dearly, because I was too stupid to listen to that internal voice that said 'check it out first' that I resent :-[
m
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Just the other week I bought a small glass seagull in a charity shop - nothing spectacular - but I was convinced it was uranium. I didn't have my black-light to check, but it glowed like billy-o in the sunshine.
Got it home. Washed it. The day-glo glass paint came off.
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oh Sue ;D, I'm sorry but that was the funniest story!!
It made me think of my gorgeous lime green vase that was knicker elastic pink when I opened the bag when I got home. But at least I managed to sell that to a friend who absolutely loved it.
m
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Ok,I don't show this very often,the vase itself is fine,it's the decoration :o what a face :o
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That is quite nice, enamel?
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;D do you hide it with something shorter in front so just the nice toppy bit shows?
oops I've just seen TC's post (who is seemingly much nicer than I am :) )
I've also just remembered though, I have the overly complicated, brightly coloured 'Chinese Muran'o vase that OH has refused to have on show. Even he, with no interest in glass, took one look at it when it arrived and declared it hideous, cheap and nasty (one of my most expensive early purchases)
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No, really, i like it. It fascinates me, nice foot, wavey bits, muted colours. :)
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I really like the vase but all I can see is that face ::) ;D ;D
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Glad I started this thread ;D It's keeping me amused knowing its not just me. Its nice to look at glass but never good when it looks back :o I do try to listen to the voice but Im sure there will be a few more mistakes.
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There,that's better,should nave thought to do that ages ago ::)
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pretty! does it glow under blacklight?
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Genius Keith! Just don't put a mirror behind it and you're sorted.
I'm going to show you my 'guilty secret'. It's not that I wish I hadn't bought it as it was (obviously) a cheap item, but it is placed where no-one can see it. I found it in my 'glass' search on Ebay and even though it wasn't at all what I was looking for, it drew me in and I had to buy it. The Ebay photo was pretty bad so I didn't know what I was buying really. Anyway, here it is - mostly glass except for the figures and embellishments. To be honest, if I could be totally frivolous, I'd probably collect these things, and the little lampwork figures that come in glass boxes with a mirror behind - Oooh they are awful, but I like them!
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Probably the piece i bought a couple of days ago and asked to be IDd on here , i put it down to permanent juvenile dementia , had it since i was born . :-\
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What piece was that?
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No glow m, ;D ;D
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To embarrassed to keep all of mine, they were palmed off to a charity shop.
Aaargh, I lie, I still have one of them, I keep it to remind me of my folly, not that I learnt from it. ;D
I bought it on ebay not long after I first registered, a 'Scandinavian' looking vase the Canadian seller said was made by Holmegaard. When it arrived I realised it was three inches tall not the ten or so I was expecting. It obviously was not Holmegaard and years later I discovered it was made by ICET in Venezuela. It is 'displayed' in my hall.
John
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The colour reminds me of the chocolate blancmange they used to serve for school dinners ;D ;D
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The colour reminds me of the chocolate blancmange they used to serve for school dinners ;D ;D
;D That is so true Keith! I remember it well - especially the skin on the top, which you always prayed you wouldn't get a lump of in your serving! :-X
Back to the thread subject ... I have to admit that I display ALL my glass somewhere! None of it is actually hidden away or in cupboards, although some of it may be high up at the back on top of a cabinet! However, my worst buy is this:
It was on our first trip to Murano - in fact, our first trip to Venice. The hotel in Venice offered a free boat ride to Murano and we, being 'innocents abroad', fell for it. What happens is, the hotel have an agreement with a particular salesroom on Murano and the 'free boat trip' takes you to the back entrance of that showroom, not to Murano proper. You are herded in, given a brief display of some fairly basic glassblowing, and then lead to the sales area, where the 'hard sell' begins, and you are put under great pressure to buy something - anything, but the more expensive the better! - and then when everyone on the trip has bought something you are herded back out the back entrance and into the private hotel boat back to Venice! And some poor tourists think that's it! They've 'seen' Murano! >:(
We had to buy something to escape the pressure, so this is what we bought! I loath it, but J says we should keep it as a reminder of our first visit (we did go back later, on the Vaporetto- Water Bus - and see Murano proper) so this little piece of tat (sorry JB) is still on display, although it stands on the top at the back of a cabinet! ::)
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Is it small or a Holmegaard piece but very far away ;D ;D ;D