Topic: Clear and blue/white opaline cased glass

[bat20]

Thank you Sue , really interesting.So someone who knows his onions !

[bat20]

Could the clear have been trailed onto the rim and then pinched ?

[chopin-liszt]

It's possible. 
A while back, I had an old frilly edged uranium plate with extra shaping like this, (I think it eventually went to Pamela's Museum  ) and I found out that the extra shaping was done after the frills, by slumping. It was an extra bit of work carried out for each individual piece, to get the big dips and humps. But it was just the one colour of glass.

To find out if there is clear casing over the body, try looking at the very edge of the base, with a light source behind it. (I use the strong lights over the kitchen hob) Wiggle it around a bit to see if you can make anything out on the outside.

With the wiggling, try to find a way of seeing the very surface from the side on - so it appears thicker. 

[Lustrousstone]

This is almost certainly Bohemian. The clear will be an applied rim. It is possible that the first gather was the opaline (which my or may not be uranium glass but definitely isn't vaseline (yellow uranium) glass) and that the blue was a much smaller gather blown into the opaline until it adhered. This is quite a common method of applying a thin layer of colour. Applied rims are common too. It probably didn't have a frog though it might have had a metal handled frame.

[chopin-liszt]

One of the contestants, Patrick Primeau, in Blown Away, blew a bubble inside another one, but it looked terribly difficult. He did it to create bulging eye parts poking out of a diver's helmet.

I did not know it was a common thing to try to do. Thanks for enlightening me. 

[bat20]

Thanks very much everyone for the input ,really appreciated .I’ll be back on this one when I find my torch or get another.

[bat20]

Think it glows a bit

[Paul S.]

Hi - I hate to be picky about subject headings, but 'custard glass' -  how was that arrived at?           The obvious assumption is that tapping on this one would bring up a custard glass  -  surely the heading should be changed.

[bat20]

Happy for the heading to be changed….Don’t think it’s the only mistake on the ste 😂😂

[Paul S.]