Featured Glass decanter. 18thc?

Bet that stopper is one of the ubiquotous Heisey stoppers found to fit (almost) this nice bellshaped decanter. Which looks more like a Fostoria 1930s style to me but then I don't know them all.

 

looks like same item and seller but different platform!

 

That very well could be. I’ve encountered that quite a few times in the past including quite recently. Title will say 18thc then description will list a year well into the 1800’s. I really wanted to know what would give this away as 18thc if I wasn’t seeing it at all.

 

With a name like that it’s gotta be true!

 

Interesting. So it’s some type of liquor that does this only or other things as well? Since you avoid it like the plague I guess it just hurt the value quite a bit? I wonder how much clear glass I’d have to look at to be able to spot the difference between dirty and “sickness” now that I know it exists!?

 

Water will cause glass sickness. The only real remedy is serious internal polishing or muriatic acid.

 

"Sick" glass is caused from chemicals in the glass interacting with a liquid substance left in the glass for long periods of time.

@Cherryhill is probably better able to explain it in proper terms.

Sometimes it can be cleaned out.
Fill the decanter up to the top of the sickness with rice. Add some ammonia a few drops of Dawn original dishwasher detergent, fill with water, and let sit a week, a month, more depending on how bad the "Sickness" is. Swish the bottle whenever you walk by.
You may have to repeat.
May not take all of it out, but I usually have luck with this.

 

OK. There are two kinds of Sickness, (at least). One is deposit. If a liquid evaporates and has left behind a deposit, this can be removed with a mild abrasive, shaking rice in it may help.

Another Sickness is corrosion. Some acids will attack glass, dissolving the surface, leaving it cloudy. This can be cured in some cases, the process is similar to tumbling, polishing stones to make them shiney. One puts an exceedingly fine abrasive powder and a liquid inside the container and rolls it over and over. for like three weeks. continuous. There's a guy in the middle of Indiana farmland that has a building full of these tumblers polishing glass. Kim Carlisle by name. He ought to turn up in a Google search.

 

Kim did a bang up job getting rid of the sickness on my Webb/Fritsche glass urn. I highly recommend him. Reasonable rates too.

 

Hi,
I can also recommend Kim. He saved a vase from my Gram that I thought was a goner. It came back looking brand new. Rain water from a leak in the roof of a storage shed collected in the vase and it was in terrible shape.
greg