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Title: baffles me
Post by: mark on February 07, 2024, 12:23:19 AM
hi all, these are blown glass base 2 1/8th diameter glass diameter 2 1/8th height 2 3/4 top lip 1 inch polisher engraved with ferns ,marks as to make unreadable due to ware , what are they for ? and how old and any other information please
Title: Re: baffles me etched what for medical ?
Post by: mark on February 07, 2024, 02:24:30 PM
hi all, these are blown glass base 2 1/8th diameter glass diameter 2 1/8th height 2 3/4 top lip 1 inch polisher engraved with ferns ,marks as to make unreadable due to ware , what are they for ? and how old and any other information please
   are they medical ?
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: bat20 on February 07, 2024, 03:08:49 PM
They’ve got a leech jar look about them , but without the flat rim.?
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: mark on February 07, 2024, 03:53:18 PM
i thought so but when i search the top rim is not the same and these are very much smaller, i wonder if it is the glass they put bees in to sting ?
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: mark on February 07, 2024, 05:49:59 PM
hi all , told ivy ball glasses but these seem small, searched but can not find any like these still baffled, to small for ivy cuttings , need super expert , think 1800s age but what are they for and signature still with loop evades me
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 08, 2024, 09:04:17 AM
They are far too small for ivy balls. The fern motifs date them to the pteridomania period !1850s-1890s). I'm not convinced the marks are deliberate though. It is possible they are table decoration posy vases for violets or primroses, which were sold commercially in bunches.
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: teckle peh on February 08, 2024, 01:17:46 PM
The look like vases to me
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: mark on February 08, 2024, 01:29:47 PM
They are far too small for ivy balls. The fern motifs date them to the pteridomania period !1850s-1890s). I'm not convinced the marks are deliberate though. It is possible they are table decoration posy vases for violets or primroses, which were sold commercially in bunches.

thank you , i have never seen with so small glass and lip such an odd design and thank you for sharing your knowledge which takes a long time to acquire
 
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: Ivo on February 08, 2024, 02:14:06 PM
They could be samples, miniature products which the travelling salesman had in his suitcase to show to customers.  They look 1870s-90s and my guess would be Northern France.
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: mark on February 08, 2024, 04:42:07 PM
thank you, but as drinking goes why such a small lip, impossible to drink from so samples vases , thank you once more
Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: mark on February 09, 2024, 06:59:59 PM
They are far too small for ivy balls. The fern motifs date them to the pteridomania period !1850s-1890s). I'm not convinced the marks are deliberate though. It is possible they are table decoration posy vases for violets or primroses, which were sold commercially in bunches.
thank you , looking googling pulling hair out trying to find similar lol also depth of bowl seems small for flower

Title: Re: baffles me
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 10, 2024, 04:08:04 PM
But not for primroses or violets. Here is a posy trough of a similar depth https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,60642.msg342010.html