It’s glass sickness, caused by liquid being left in the decanter. There’s no easy fix. Muriatic acid can work, as can polishing it out.
Does it indeed! That’s very useful. Thank you.
Hmmmmm…. Any sign of what might have been the clasp? I’d suspect fold over. And I think that’s pre ww2.
Nice old millefiori beads.
Bisto is also gravy powder. ;)
It’s an invalid feeding cup. Someone held it to the sick persons mouth. The half cover stopped the gruel or soup spilling on them. That’s why...
My father in law was an artificer. In Devonport dockyard as a youth all through the war, then went on to design guns. Big ones. He headed up teams...
They may be earlier, as in early to mid nineteenth. Lovely things.
I thought aliens!
It’s lampwork. The problem is that literally thousands of glass artists made these.
I think that’s a foot roller.
That’s Doulton Lambeth that is and if you show the base I can probably give you chapter and verse. Have you actually soaked it in hot water for...
The transfer goes on unfired clay. Let me see if I can find a decent cite for you.
Studio work. I’d be looking at local artists.
Not Loetz, too thick a glass, and the wrong spatter, colour and base too. It’s later, I’d think sixties onwards. Has a bit of a Maltese look....
The transfer, or decal to you, is applied. First firing, then painted, then glazed and fired again.
Spot on, florentine and relatively recent. I picked up three of these and a mini chest of drawers a few weeks back. They were sold often as...
Are those actual Globe Wernicke?
Does look Japanese or Korean. Kimchi?
It may be a transfer outline then hand coloured.
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