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I have a collection of hair receivers. I have a wooden one from my great grandmother, one that has birds on it, and one that has a spring metal cover over the hole. They are neat!
Hello& thank you for this video as it's quite informative 🙏🏼 Question for you would you be able to tell me what type of glass I have if I sent you a photo of this pitcher I own?
As I glassblower myself Im used to hearing glass-talk only from the glass community so its wonderful to hear somebody else appreciate glass and all the skills and techniques🎉❤ and about the young generation of glassblowers, we are not extinct yet! 😂
This must have been made by a hobbyist, and a very good one. They sometimes signed on the artwork, and sometimes on the bottom or both. There is only one manufacturer mark on it, the one who made the blank.
Pressed glass was never made in wooden molds. Carnival Glass was pressed into metal mold and while hot sprayed with metallic salts dissolved in water. This caused the iridescent surface to form.
This was exactly the video I needed, thank you so much! I'm about to start selling vintage and antique items on Instagram and I've got so many random glass/crystal pieces, this will help me tons!
I had a friend that was so tight with his money that it was after a time said to be an illness . None the less at the time he got married I thought he was just crazy cheap. So for the gift when he got married I got him a really large Waterford vase similar to the one you were showing. I did that in the hope he would buy his wife flowers at least on special dates . I moved and went off with the army so I never did get a chance to find out how many times he bought his wife flowers if any . Oh well . He is dead now. I still hope one of his kids get the vase when the mother dies. I bet that unless she bought flowers for it there was hardly a time when flowers would have been in it .
It is perfectly safe to use for serving purposes but do not store food or liquid long term in lead crystal as the lead can leech out into the food/liquids. I have some crystal decanters that are safe to serve from but not safe to store alcohol in.
I do not have carnival glass but a German made piece with a sticker on it. It says bleikristall echt pfauenau. The end of the last name I gave to you is where the paper ends or ripped. I do know it is crystal. My mother gave this to me before her death in 2003. It's colors are similar to carnival glass. Is it worth anything?
Standing in Goodwill so my niece can do some shopping, and I’m flicking Vases as I watch my toddler play with the toys. I think it’s time I start collecting to honor my mother(God rest her beautiful soul!!!), because she collected Crystal throughout my childhood, and even named me Crystal because of her love for Crystal. Thanks for the tips!!
Yeah I have been collecting vintage decanters for a home bar until I read about the lead leeching into the alcohol if stored in lead crystal for extended periods. Lead crystal is still safe to use it's just not safe for long term storage.
thank you for your video. I recently purchased a Daum Vase from Neiman Marcus online. The piece that I received does not look like the one on display at the store, meaning that my piece has more "frosted" look/more "dull" than the displayed one. I am not sure what they used to polish their piece but I have tried to clean mine with mild/diluted dish washing detergent water and wiped it dry. However, it still look dull. What should be used to polish this brand of crystal? Thank you for your insight into this. A bit disappointed since the piece that I purchased is almost $2k.
One thing about turquoise is that there are natural turquoise pieces in jewelry and there’s stabilized turquoise. Stabilized is soaked in acrylic or epoxy resin and it will never really change color over 30 years or so. Natural turquoise will stay in most grades but with oils from our skin and handling, lotions, soaps, etc- natural turquoise will turn green over time. A kind of blah color. Natural turquoise also has natural inclusions like quartz and matrix - fake turquoise is usually dyed howlite so look howelite up and you’ll see what I mean. Peace
I grew up with Lladro. My mother's collection is awesome... she took care of them in her living room that was a museum. I didn't know what they were growing up... all i knew was if i played around them and broke one, I would be disowned.
I live near Vaillancourt and own two of their chalkware pieces. They are not inexpensive, but they are cherished and will hopefully be kept in the family for many years. As a true lover of the Christmas season, Vaillancourt, is one of my favorite places to be. I recently attended their Christkindlmarket (Christmas market) hosting other vendors of beautiful craftware.
I'm selling 2 plates on EBAY right now, well I'm starting the listing, and these plates are my grandmothers. She wants to know how much they are, they have a stamp on the back, it honestly looks like a gumdrop with a stripe through the middle but, I'm having doubts these are real. This vid was a seriously niche help here, I'm looking around but info on decoration plates are scarce, I'm not sure what the dot means, I hope you get your answer. (if I find out what each symbol means through my research I'll let you know what that means.)
Greetings. This video is interesting. I am fascinated by topics of this type. I like to study and see the world of the late 1800s and early 1900s in its artistic manifestations in every field, especially in design in general and in the furnishing of homes of those eras (Art Nouveau and Art Deco)( or Liberty). Let me introduce myself: I am Renata Teresa Cosulich de Pecine. I inherited from my father a wonderful collection of glass and crystal vases by Renè Lalique and Emile Galle. These items were my father's great passion, who traveled the world to find and buy them for his collection. And I, of course, also inherited this passion from him, Now all the vases are in the villa I inherited, well looked after, but the costs for security and anti-theft systems are becoming very high, so I decided to sell the entire collection in order to be able to live more peacefully and also to not continue to spend a lot of money on security. Of course I regret this, but I have to. In addition to the vases by Lalique and Gallè, I also have beautiful pairs of silver candelabras from the late 1700s, the late 1800s and also from the 1930s of Italian Fascism. For emotional reasons I would like the people interested in my items to be all passionate and in love with these splendid objects, just as my father was, but unfortunately I realize that many are just crude traders only interested in money. Patience ! I have to accept them! However, to have direct and personal contact with interested people, I did not turn to Auction Houses but I thought of speaking directly with people to get to know them. (After all, I am alone and not organized to go up and down to various cities carrying my precious objects. I only have a friend of mine who gradually helps me with packaging and shipping) I had a website made to present the entire collection (for anyone who might be interested, the site is laliquevasesgalle.) Some of my friends, given my passion, ask me questions about my "jargon" when I talk about my collection. For example, what they mean: "Art Nouveau", "Art Deco" or "Liberty", etc. Since it is complicated for me, I always advise them to go to Google and consult the sites on the topic, such as wikipedia. In fact, people in general have confused ideas on the subject, even if many can vaguely interpret the age of an object.
