Kiko, are you certain about that? It's threaded, marvered flat, dragged, similar to a pulled feather design.
I'd guess one of the WVa companies, but no bets. It took me a loooong time to realize that I can't know it all, probably no one can. some pieces...
I must apologize, I'm the source of "Favrile" in this thread. I simply read too fast, didn't check what I thought I saw. Blame it on impatience.
When Tiffany used "Favrile" they meant it to mean "Hand Made" I have no idea what it means in this instance, it certainly isn't from Tiffany.
And if it doesn't say "Glass" many won't stop and look. I didn't 'till almost 6 hours later.
That's due to it being solid glass, not hollow, As the rest of it is.
I spoke with a mold maker years ago, he told me he'd made many many flask molds, carving them into fire bricks, easy to carve (relative to iron),...
I know, but that's not documentation. I still think it's Northwood. That's what lots of other people think, too.
I've thought Northwood, but with no documentation. I agree with Cluttered's dating.
Uh...I might call it Optic, optical refers to eyeglasses. I believe the vertical lines are reflections not optic ribs.
What ever it is, it was machine made. those bumps all over the bottom were to help it move from the machine to the lehr for annealing, all...
Many of us don't study bottles, but pressed or art glass. The two products have little shared technique
The color Canary, AKA vaseline, was developeod in the mid 1840s, could have been made any time after that.
George May be correct, it's beyond my ken, but anyone could have purchased the US Glass/Duncan moulds after US Glass closed in the 1980s.
My 30 or 40 year old memory says they bought all of them. Most of our related research was with Geo Duncan & Sons which merged into US Glass.
Why do I remember that US Glass/Tiffin bought the Duncan Miller Molds?
Just to be certain, everyone calls it "Nailsea" but there's no documentation that the decoration was ever done there. No, there's no agreement...
I've seen these modern "large millifiori" called Murines.
Funny about "Reversed Amberina". When a piece is on the blowpipe, and is struck, the bottom is where it would be struck. To put the ruby at the...
Nope, this isn't Hobbs, Brockunier. I can't find my copy of Lee Marple's book on Phoenix, it might be in there, but I don't recognize it. My...
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