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Message:: [QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 13184, member: 40"]It's a bird feeder/waterer /font /fount. These are mostly continental. A lot found their way to the U.S. in all those antiques container lots that came over in the '70s, 80's, 90's. !9th. century. probably northern Europe, maybe France. Bottle glass. Some were made in the U.S.. There's a great example in the Sandwich Glass museum, blown of clear glass with a swan or bird finial. American origin would be rare. Sure would like to see this in hand. Then I could tell if it were authentic or....newer. I've never seen one reproed, but the glass doesn't appear to have much..."bloom" in the photo. The "bloom" is the natural mellowing of the surface achievable only with the passage of great time. Something that is very elusive, if not impossible to capture accurately in photos. Is there any provenance with this piece? If it could be traced to an early American maker it would be fairly valuable.[/QUOTE]