Forget Nailsea, that's been accepted as wrong for decades. Nailsea wask known for cobalt blue glass, solid blue.
Its "grey cut' unpolished. appears etched only because that too is grey. Once you visualize a grinding wheel making the marks, it becomes obvious....
"very unique" indeed. Good catch, Tall!
Yeah, the tumbler is Hobbs, Brockunier's but the vase was made long after Hobbs closed in 1891. Sorry, I know Hobbs, Brockunier, find someone who...
Not Hobbs, Brockunier! With VERY minor exceptions their Dew Drop was pressed.
Heisey's Buttress may be found etched, but htis isn't it.,
Sorry, no joy here. No knowledge, either.
I've wondered about the metal, it appears to have been chemicallyi stripped, or, never plated. I would have expected an antiqued bronze finish.
These are signs of hand made glass. No glass maker wants them none can avoid them. Correction, modern factories, (Baccarat, Val St. Lambert,...
For the record, glass cooled below 900ºf behaves as a solid, it will break before it bends. Or slumps.
Not to ignore the above suggestons,s but also look toward Chalet, in Canada. They did a lot with heavy ashtrays, etc.
Mine doesn't have a base, I purchased it at the Kokomo Opalescent Glass Factory in Kokomo, Indiana. It does have a GIS sticker. It seems they...
I have a piece similar, rolled into a shell shape, from Glass Eye Studio.
I know there is unsigned Dorothy Thorpe glass out there, but without her signature on at least one piece I'd hesitate to call it that. Original...
The 'waffled bottom' is a result of the punty used to pick it up subsequent to the the pressing, to tool it into shape. The waffle will pick up...
What ever it is, it was pressed and tooled into shape. To have been blown it has to have been hollow at one time.
I've not seen any comments on these (the ones with numbers on the bottom) the numbers indicate to the manufacture which mold they were made in,...
I looked in "The Glass of Frederick Carder" by Paul V Gardner. There are 58 pages of vase drawings, (Drawings either done by Carder himself or...
Marble, Bingo. Slag when not marbles.
No, Agate, a natural mineral/stone is colored throughout, the pieces above are glass (which some may call agate) in two layers, one with green...
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