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For my first posting, I thought it would be perfect to share what I love the most with collecting Bohemian art glass. Here is a few blooms from Kralik. These forms I refer to as floriforms and are from the Art Nouveau era. They have an beautiful organic shape and come in many various colours. I am new to the site and looking forward to meeting others of interest. I do research glass and hope I can be of help to others on this site. So bare with me as I get the hang of using this site. Hope you enjoy looking at a sample of my glass garden. Thanks! ~Leah

The most interesting aspect about collecting Victorian Art Glass shakers and condiment sets is that you can collect just about all types of Victorian Art Glass and display it in a small area.

These types of items include salt, pepper, sugar shakers as well as mustard jars, small cruet bottles, and toothpick holders. If you are lucky enough you may run across a silverplate holder of the period that will hold the pieces! The holders can be very ornate and really enhance the shakers in which they hold. As mentioned above, these items come in all sorts of art glass. This includes cased glass, decorated opalware as well as many other forms of enameled glass. Others include Amberina, Burmese, Peachblow, Findlay Onyx, Opalescent, Chocolate glass and so many others.
Some of the manufacturers that made these items are Mt Washington, New England Glass, Consolidated Glass, Hobbs Brockunier, Challinor Taylor, Northwood, and so many others of the period.

Some folks just didn't know how to have fun in the good ol' days...



...or DID they?



HEY HEY it's Friday NIGHT! Let's go watch folks lay in coffins!

Hi,
When I saw this all I could think about is how much would Candlewick collectors pay for it. lol

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251548882829&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

14 minutes in and three bids!! Especially for a $1.99 gw buy!!

I've had this photo for some time now, saved it and a couple of others from the garbage. This is large (21"), came out of a convex glass frame - is there anything that can be done to save this?
What time period do you think this is from? The buttons look like maybe antler buttons.
thanks for looking