Glass Message Board

Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: ttttootall on September 10, 2014, 11:33:41 AM

Title: Ebay listing "I.L.T." Question?
Post by: ttttootall on September 10, 2014, 11:33:41 AM

I have one of these and always wondered:
Manufacturer/Maker
Age
I.L.T meaning (except mine looks more like F.N.T)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-MILLEFIORI-GLASS-PAPERWEIGHT-RARE-SIGNED-I-L-T-EARLY-PONTILED-1800s-/201130323698?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed44d2ef2

Title: Re: Ebay listing "I.L.T." Question?
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 10, 2014, 01:44:47 PM

I think Lustrousstone might be able to help. She collects this sort of weight sometimes - I think the letters are probably somebody's initials. They turn up with names on them, executed in this manner.
Possibly Pilkington or Beranek, but wait and see what Christine says.  :)

Title: Re: Ebay listing "I.L.T." Question?
Post by: RescoCCC on September 10, 2014, 04:02:11 PM

Is that an annealing crack I'm seeing in the first image?

Title: Re: Ebay listing "I.L.T." Question?
Post by: ttttootall on September 10, 2014, 05:28:12 PM

Looks more like a shadow and reflection to me.

Title: Re: Ebay listing "I.L.T." Question?
Post by: Fuhrman Glass on September 10, 2014, 08:36:05 PM

Early US Midwestern weight. As I recall FLT in those links is the logo for the Odd Fellows Lodge. I think it stood for Friendship, Love and Trust. Google Odd Fellows Lodge and see if I've got it correct. BTW: I didn't see any millefiore canes in that weight, just a lot of "end of day" stuff picked up off the marver.  These were made in the early 1900's in many of the Midwestern factories in Weswt Virginia, Indiana and Ohio.

Title: Re: Ebay listing "I.L.T." Question?
Post by: ttttootall on September 10, 2014, 08:39:00 PM

Thank you,
That is very interesting.