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I think a teacup in solid silver is about as decadent as you can get.

Real folks use a thick china mug

La-di-da finger crooking people use cups without broken handles, with a few flowers, made when people used to like flowers.

Solid silver teacups is just drinking out of money. Silver teacup drinkers are simply taking a few minutes break from grinding the faces of the poor, and will get back to it refreshed.

However, my silver teacup collection (and they are very hard to find as poor-face-grinders never part with anything) reflect the national characters of the nations that made them.

British sterling. Modest, plain, restrained, possibly a bit embarassed




Austro Hungarian late 19th C. Elegant, fine restrained decoration, fin de siecle Vienna cafe, almost excusable.



French, same period, twice the size of the others and mad as a fish.




All top grade silver from the respective countries.

Another favorite of mine... Bohemian Kralik Art Glass Seashells. Another organic shape that comes in a variety of colour. A few of these shapes can be identified in the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Monograph No. 59., Czech Glass Catalog featuring Kralik. You can purchase this catalog on eBay.

If you have any questions, about the decors or any of the vases, pleased to be of help. I will be posting more examples in this thread.

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