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Message:: [QUOTE="TheOLdGuy, post: 136640, member: 878"]I would love to see that lamp lit. SIS. The tidbit tray is also striking.Is it glass as you say? Pictures are hard for me to distinguish from porcelain? If glass I would like to say Westmoreland which would date it pre-1985 but can't find it any books. Definitely not slag glass which is made by mixing different colors, usually only two with one being white, with the finished product having broad streaks of color. Slag Glass: A short explanation"Slag glass" is a collectors' name for opaque pressed glass with coloured streaks, usually white and/or cream streaks like this brown bugle made by George Davidson's in the North East of England in the 1890's. It is a name which was not used by glass-makers until recent times. The name derives from the belief that these colours were achieved by adding "slag" from iron smelting works to the glass. Do a Google image search for slag glass. 50% of more are NOT slag glass but enough are, though mostly the new purples, which I call ugly examples.[/QUOTE]