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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: keith on December 16, 2016, 03:33:25 PM

Title: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: keith on December 16, 2016, 03:33:25 PM

7 inches tall with a gilt interior, silvered finish still in good condition, loads of wear with palm trees, very festive  ::) ;D ;D

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: flying free on December 16, 2016, 10:59:18 PM

is the disc still intact?
Did you see my post on Christmas treats from Germany? ( :-[ you didn't comment)
I put a link on there to a mercury glass page on the GMB.
I like it - I like the ones with the gilded interior (mine has this - looks fab on display)
m

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: keith on December 17, 2016, 12:20:39 AM

Just had a look, sorry  :-[ beautiful decorations, had some similar many years ago, what happened to them I have no idea, can't put anything out like tinsel due to our 'eat anything he sees' chihuahua  ::) the goblet is very similar to mine and yes the disc is missing, as usual  ::) ;D ;D

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: flying free on December 17, 2016, 12:29:51 AM

 oh shame about the disc.  Mine is there fortunately but you can carefully put a cork bung in the base and that will stop the silver deteriorating any further.  Or probably even just seal it up with a bit of sellotape - at least that will stop the silver worsening.
I think yours is probably Bohemian.
m

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: keith on December 17, 2016, 10:39:02 AM

Thanks  for the tip about using a cork, now I've got one somewhere, I think  ::) ;D ;D

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: Paul S. on December 17, 2016, 09:38:05 PM

just seen in one of my books that some similar silvered glass was produced in the States -  'some with bands of painted roses' - toward the end of the C19 ..................   but I guess you know more accurately about this one.
There's a Max Miller joke about a lady and her Chihuahua  ...........   but can't tell it here :'(

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: flying free on December 17, 2016, 11:57:13 PM

yes I did think of the US versions Paul when I saw the palm tree , good point.
Worth looking into.
m

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: flying free on February 10, 2017, 11:18:20 AM

I doubt you'll get an id, but Bohemian makers did do palm trees :)

I think it is a Bohemian piece
http://www.antiquemercuryglass.com/pAGE6.html
m

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: keith on February 10, 2017, 02:44:06 PM

Thanks m,  ;D ;D

Title: Re: 'Mercury' glass goblet, id if possible ?
Post by: flying free on February 10, 2017, 03:38:33 PM

welcome - I think it's probably better to use wax to seal it btw.
m