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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: flying free on July 30, 2012, 01:24:15 AM
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I've searched Pamela's site and various other options and I've not been able to find this pattern...or I've missed it. Glows beautifully, frosted green glass, marked epns stand and nice centre button to screw the stand on. Quite large at 9 3/4" diameter. Any help much appreciated :) many thanks
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I think this is good quality, the glass is quite solid and a good thickness and it reminds me a little of the Bagley Spinette I have. Could this be Bagley? I have searched and not been able to find the pattern match though :-\
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It wouldn't be impossible. Not everything seems to have been documented or at least not found. What's the hole like when you take the stand off? The size is about right and the number of crimps is OK for similar Bagley plates. Do you have anything to colour match to?
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ok I took the stand off - it's the first time I think it's ever been off - the stand has a long screw and the silver plated cap on it that the screw protrudes from is bright silver :) the hole in the bowl is neat round and perfect. I used to have a small Queen's Choice? bowl I think it is called, i n green , don't know what's happened to it but it was that mint green colour butnot uranium. I found the little flower frog that I think must have come with that bowl and it's a similar mint green. Unfortunately the flower frog is clear glass not frosted and not uranium, so it's quite difficult to be sure it's an absolute match, as the cakestand has a more intense colour to it presumably because of the uranium, slightly warmer green. But did anyone else use this curious minty green? I have a few other odd bits or green pressed glass in the garage which I use for plants and things outside, and none are the green of this.
When I did a google search of Bagley Uranium Frosted green glass, google images came up with a frilled cake stand that had a similar but not the same, pedestal. But couldnt' click on the image to show it unfortunately.
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There are other items in minty green but it's generally one of my pointers for Bagley. Does the hole have a preformed ring round it possibly only obvious by feel on the back now?
This item is not uncommon and a spot-on match for Bagley U green but un-ID'd
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=608
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Hi Christine
no I can't find a preformed circle. The hole is very neat though. I would say it doesn't look as bluey green as yours does on my monitor but I'm still fairly sure it is Bagley uranium frosted :-\
Odd though that the pattern hasn't surfaced anywhere else.
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I find myself wondering how a cake could have been put on this cake stand - given the surface is not flat.
It would just make a mess of any work a baker had done... so I'd have to eat the whole thing in one go. (I can't leave a cake looking untidy - same goes for an opened packet of biscuits or a broken bar of chocolate. Untidy.)
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yes my other big bug bear is that they are only good for cup cakes, as if you tried to put a cake on it and cut it you wouldn't be able to. I have a clear pressed one I used to use for Christmas cake and it had an upturned rim on the edge, really irritating to try and cut the cake with that there so I swapped to my well-designed flat surface amber Czechoslovakian one :)
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What is this current trend for "cupcakes" all about? A silly little bit of sponge collapsing under half a ton of chemically coloured sugar, yuk!
Whatever happened to good old fairy cakes? A nice little bit of icing on top of a good bit of sponge, and half a glace cherry to finish it off prettily. 8)
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we do fairy cakes - with butter icing and wings ;D well my son does - every few days ::) It's the only thing that keeps him occupied and costs us a fortune.
Cannot stand those huge iced things though
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Those are butterfly cakes! ;D
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yes - in a rush and couldn't remember the name of them ;D
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Nice cake stand! I saw one a few weeks back in pink, wanted to buy it but it went way over my budget! The stand and button look very different though, and the flutes aren't there.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item20c666dd32&item=140767583538&nma=true&pt=UK_Art_Glass&rt=nc&si=jjEsk8sS9bFmSdR5vZT4kVHSCio%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
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Jayne thanks!!
So, did Bagley do that pink? Mine is not shiny on the inside it is frosted as well as on the outside btw. That stand, the one I saw had more similarities with that (maybe the same?) apparently on a Bagley Cakestand but I couldn't check the link when I clicked on it to see if it really was. I'm sure my stand is original to the plate and I honestly don't think it's been off the plate before I unscrewed it. And my green is near as darnit if not identical to what I think is a Bagley frog but if they didn't do pink then I guess that might be the decider :-\
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I too have one of these plates . I have it displayed with a few pieces of Uranium Bagley and it is a good colour match in different lights with the Bagley pieces. I perceive however as being a much more solid plate than the other Bagley cake plates I have.
I picked up the plate by itself at a flea market so the stand is not original.
Cheers
meegs
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Thanks Meegs - I meant to reply but forgot, I took it outside yesterday in the sun, and I could see a tiny difference ion colour as well - I wasn't sure though whether that was the U factor in the one and not the other, and thank you for comparing to your plates :)
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well it might be just that I never look for these things but here's another in pink and I'm getting suspicious - maybe wrongly.
Apparently with this one, according to the blurb, when you've finished with it you can just 'fold it up' and put it away ;D
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Beautiful-Old-1930s-Vintage-Shabby-Chic-Frost-Pink-Glass-Petal-Cupcake-Stand-/120960047991?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item1c29c7db77
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Why are you getting suspicious?
I think it's pretty handy that It's nicely embellished with an ornate glass top.
Quite a handy embellishment for a cake stand!
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well only because suddenly we have a collection of them. And it's not been on the board before. Also I have to admit to being astonished that the top of it is also frosted. I would have expected a good design to be frosted underneath and plain on top - but perhaps that is too complex a process in terms of producing the glass?
Having said that, it really does look as though my stand has never been off the plate in fairness.
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It's probably just something nobody has ever bothered to ask about or just that you can't find the thread. A lot of stuff is frosted on top. It probably just means the whole thing was either dipped or blasted - much cheaper to do it all.
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And harder to clean. >:(
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yes that's what I'd thought. I had bought it for youngest to display his cakes but the mess he makes with icing and bits it would have been scratched in no time. We're using a Minton one instead ;D
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I do miss the ROFLMAO emoticon!
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he's classy, if a bit of a pita sometimes ;D