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Glass Mall => Glass Market Place => Topic started by: Arthirollen on March 09, 2018, 12:47:48 AM
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Are there any collectors out there of disaster glass? A very tragic but fascinating area for the glass academic, these were made in the 19th century to commemorate and as memorials for various tragic events, mostly mining disasters I believe.
I have one for the explosion at Haswell Colliery in 1844 which claimed the lives of 95 men and boys, I have decided to sell it now on ebay as raising money for my father, take a look if you too have an interest in the social history side of glass, have to admit my photos are not brilliant though as only have a very old camera.
I recently saw a small disaster glass sell on ebay which was to commemorate the Victoria Hall tragedy in which over 180 children lost their lives.
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Hi Arthirollen, welcome to the GMB.
I have moved this post to the Market Place forum because it is in respect of a current sales item, not just an inquiry or information thread.
Unfortunately you do not give details of the eBay item.
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Hello KevinH,
Thank you so much for your welcome and for moving my post to where it should be, if anyone wants to have a look the ebay item number is 263531205148 or a search for 'mining disaster glass' will also bring it up as there are not currently any others like this for sale.
Arthirollen
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Here's the direct link.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VICTORIAN-1844-SUNDERLAND-HASWELL-COLLIERY-MINING-DISASTER-COMMEMORATIVE-GLASS/263531205148?hash=item3d5baf121c:g:V5AAAOSwOb9aktBj
I was very curious, given I was listening to a folk song about a mining disaster, Christy Moore's "Blantyre Explosion", when I found it. :)
How much was commemorating such things down to the ordinary folk who they affected directly, rather than officially led by the mine owners who rather wanted unsullied reputations?