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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: stew2u2 on April 28, 2016, 05:17:17 PM
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amber glass vase vase help please.
bought this vase when i got home notices a slight green tinge to the rim. glows under UV light
cant find anything about it if anyone can point me in the right direction would be very great-full
thanks stew
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is it crackle glass?
and does it have an unusually large pontil mark? Or is that the base with a smaller pontil mark in the centre of it - difficult to tell on your photo
m
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hi thanks for looking
no its like a knobbly affect as tho blown into a mold and the top 3 inches drawn out of the mold. the base has a ground pontil mark in the center of a protruding base
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are we satisfied this is not the result of manganese?
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how could i tell not sure only thought if it glowed under UV light it was uranium im lost when it comes to anything else
thanks for looking
stew
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well, you could try Christine's yard stick.......... standing back three or four feet, and if it still glows then it's uranium. Manganese gives a sort of greyish green glow, usually, but have to say that I'm really offering a suggestion only, this is not my area, and yours may well be uranium.
Try the torch on various pieces in your collection, and if you get a greenish response on pieces you know are not uranium, then you'll see the kind of effect that manganese gives. Suspect you need a reasonable quality u.v. torch though, and with fully charged batteries.
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I suspect this is uranium, especially if there is a green glow without UV. Uranium amber is pretty common but as Paul says my yardstick test is pretty good. This is interesting, though I have no idea where its from or who make it with that pontil mark.
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can you add measurements please including weight.
Is it unusually heavy for size?
It (the colour and curious decor) reminds me of a crackle glass vase I have with green strands in it. The colour especially. Mine is very heavy for size - oddly so.
m
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its about 6 inches high and 7 inches across the widest. weight is 1330g quite thick glass. the design reminds me of a kralik martele vase i had but the lines are not as defined as the kralik.
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more photo's
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that foot reminds me a bit of a Legras cameo vase I have and also an Emile Galle one I've seen.
I wonder if it might be French?
m
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thanks for the info will look in the french direction
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I associate amber uranium with Belgium.
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oooh good thought Ivo!
I wonder if my crackle amber vase with greeny strips might be Belgian perhaps?
m
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actually, having checked my Legras vase, I've just remembered what it reminds me of ::)
a vase/powder pot I have that I think is Webb Corbett agate flambe.
The base/small curved foot is similar although the pontil mark on mine is much larger.
I'll try and find a pic of it on here and link it
here
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,58232.msg329914.html#msg329914
m
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thats the closest to the pontil i have seen so far
thanks for all the help people
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does anyone think this might be a cuspidor the shape and the base makes it hard to knock over just a thought
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I took a photo of a blue glass vase in a similar shape (as though someone had pushed down the neck into the body slightly if you see what I mean?) in the V & A I think. I think it was under British Glass, which is what made me look at my other pieces to find that foot (because I'm pretty sure that piece is Webb Corbett).
However ... much to my dismay, whilst I was at the V&A I was able to use their computer to search for glass under the museum code they had set next to each piece, but once I got home I found I was unable to do so! Really annoying as I carefully took pics with the numbers showing so I would be able to do so once home.
I'll try and find the picture and double check it was under British Glass.
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The blue vase I am thinking of (though have no idea by whom it was made) is on the shelf of British glass where they name makers (but only generally rather than specifically to each museum number). In the list they give for that shelf they also include 'Webb& Sons',which might have been what prompted me to look at that Flambe bowl as that has similarities with the foot on yours (Although Webb & sons is not Webb Corbett)
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im taking all this in even if i dont find mine the knowledge gained is priceless thanks