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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 10589400, member: 76316&quot;]I got this vase ~35 years ago at a church rummage sale, an&#039; what it cost me was a <i>lot</i>, then. I went back all 3 days, chatted up the seller quite a bit...but in the end paid what she wanted for it...an&#039; wasn&#039;t too surprised she hadn&#039;t sold it yet.</p><p>Kept it for years in a south facing window, &#039;cause I am still besotted with its flash of fire when the sun strikes it. It&#039;s one of those things I love, but that I&#039;ve decided to sell before I stumble into it an&#039; shatter it. Seems I&#039;m clumsier than I was, somehow.&nbsp; Anyway, I thought to share it with all my friends here before it goes bye-bye.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s 8 3/4&quot; tall, to the cut, chamfered an&#039; polished rim, which is 5 3/4&quot; diameter, the foot is 3 3/4&quot;; weight is ~30 oz. The red threads (0.044&quot;/1mm at the rim, but may be slightly finer near the foot) an&#039; everything else about it, are perfect; zero chips, cracks, missing thread or other blemish; flawless. How in the world a single semi-molten glass thread can be so well controlled is a real puzzle to me; I suppose it may have been machine made. I&#039;ve looked many times for some other mark on it to ID the maker...without success. The hyphenated? (spaced) spelling of Czecho-Slovakia <i>may</i> offer a clue about when it was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone can reasonably attribute this to a known maker, I&#039;ll be thrilled to know about it. Hope you like it...thanks for lookin&#039;!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]531187[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]531188[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]531189[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]531190[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]531191[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]531192[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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