Topic: Mdina Globes for Perusal

[chopin-liszt]

Are we really quibbling about a couple of years, John? :24:

They're both Michael Harris period, I know the generality is that necks and flanges got longer and thinner and less buttony, but there's also the sort of thick cup-shaped one .... and it's only a generality.

I've got a bit of a suspicion that yellow alone is very early.... that once they got going with blues as well, they didn't really go back....
only a suspicion, mind, no proof, no evidence, nothing.... other than a distinct shortage of them.....

[glassobsessed]

You know me, I will quibble over hours.....

[Greg.]

Must admit rather partial to that that pale yellow globe of yours John, apart from the neck and rim the colour looks very early, maybe even experimental.

The yellow globes do definitely appear harder to come across.

[rocket-vintage]

Here is a Mdina Globe I picked up at the weekend complete with stopper . .  .



:ooh:

[chopin-liszt]

That's a perfume bottle I'm afraid, not a globe.
Globes don't have stoppers, but perfume bottles do have biggish rims, which could be mistaken for the early "button" rims.

Lots going on in it, though - nice thing.

[rocket-vintage]

If not for the stopper how would someone differentiate between a perfume bottle & a globe?

[chopin-liszt]

Size, and the appearance of the inside of the neck.

[rocket-vintage]

What's the size differance between the two & what should I be looking for on the inside of the neck?

[chopin-liszt]

A perfume bottle will have a ground inside-of-the-neck and the inside-neck is deep, while a globe has no grinding and the inside of the neck is more likely to be curved, in line with the shape of the vase. Mdina perfume bottles can be up to 4"-5" tall - they are quite big. There are also distinctive perfume bottle shapes, and the stoppers are long clear things, not the round, coloured stoppers of decantery bottles.

(I have to confess, I try to avoid perfume bottles along with pwts. Both these categories of glass have "another genre" of collectable interest - often occupied by wealthy folk who drive the prices up to silly levels for what are, to me, just smaller and less interesting bits of glass.)

[rocket-vintage]

Only very subtle differances then.

After reading Mark Hill's book I mistook my vase for a globe as he makes no mention of mdina perfume bottles. The pictures in the book & description would lead most people to thinking a perfume bottle was a globe vase minus the tiny stopper (I imagine plenty of these delicate stoppers get lost or broken). See pages 42-43 of "Michael Harris Mdina Glass & Isle Of Wight Studio Glass) .

Interestingly the perfume bottles that are mentioned later on in the book for Isle Of Wight Studio Glass DO feature the round, coloured decantry style stoppers.