Glass Glorious Glass! What's your favorite?

Hi Glassies :)

We are helping to reinvigorate the Groups here with good content that we hope will bring in lots of Googlebots and of course, new members and potential customers!

So to start I thought it might be fun and informative to have a discussion here about which types of glass are our favorites.

Feel free to add photos, as well as any links to great glass reference sites. No promotion of items for sale here tho ;-)

(I'll copy reference links that are great resources to the "sticky" area above)

I love just about all glass! but my very favorite is the pressed glass from the Art Deco - Depression era, and especially the vases, bowls, flower frogs and, my most loved, vanity accessories from that period.

Most people are familiar with the classic Depression (and Elegant) Glass made by all the renowned American Glass companies, but here is a wonderful resource to learn more about the European early 20thC Pressed Glass...get ready for some serious glass eye candy in this remarkable glass gallery!

Pressglas Pavillon by Pamela Wessendorf

So, before I write volumes about how I also love Cameo glass, and reverse painted glass, and opal glass and...and....and.....

;-)

what is your favorite type of glass?

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Permalink Reply by jacque merritt on August 14, 2011 at 12:44pm

lol, platter is "sunflower", only made for 2 years, I think it was, about 1936 or so. other later, lol

Permalink Reply by San Marcos Art Glass on September 4, 2011 at 7:38pm

I love Murano glass animals, particularly the old ones. Who can resist this Archimede Seguso horse made for Seguso Vetri d'Arte in 1937? (This horse may be sale pending even as I write.)

Or this Napoleone Martinuzzi deer made for Zecchin-Martinuzzi in 1937?

I would love to post many more pictures, but I would take up the whole site. There are a lot more posted at the Murano Zoo. Each one of the animals has such personality. There is something about glass with a face that I really relate to.

Anita

Permalink Reply by A Staffordshire Lad on November 28, 2011 at 6:16pm

Daum, Nancy.

I'm going to find a piece at a car boot sale, someday!

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on November 28, 2011 at 8:17pm

Hi Colin

Bill is one of your countrymen :) as you may have gathered by the "boot sale" reference...which for most here in the USA would likely be thought of as a sale of things to go on your feet ;) !!! lol

I owned an exquisite piece of Daum once...but sadly sold it years ago *sigh*

Not something we see much of at the sales here in the USA...... and always with sticker shock when we do!!

Permalink Reply by A Staffordshire Lad on November 29, 2011 at 2:05pm

It's the Cameo Glass pieces that I mostly like, Colin.

I'm from Staffordshire, so I'm a pottery lover, and I'm sure Cheri would (quite happily :O) ) confirm that I have little knowledge of glass.

But I'd like to think that I do recognise beauty in design when I see it, and the organic and floral Daum designs remind me very much of the early, James MacIntyre, works of William Moorcroft, but in a different medium....if you get my drift

As for being very, very lucky??

Well, I'll post you the photo on here when I find it :O) :O)

;O)

Bill.

Classy Glass said:

... Oh My Dear William, I myslef have several items of pate de vere and other works by Daum, but as yet not foiund at Boot fairs! The glass produced by this incredible factory is exceptionlly varied indeed. It depends also upon the "period & style" that you seek, for I have much glass by this factory, even vinatge items, that can be purchased for less than say £50 ($70USD) however,m if its the cameo glass that this factory is reknowned for or say their early examples of the 2oth century, you will hunt high and low at ANY boot fair, less you are very very VERY lucky indeed. ;-)

I currently have FIVE Daum produced items which I would care to exchange with you, however, each being produced circa 1940s until present, as my early pieces are to cherrish. Hey, Daum, Tiffinay, Loetz, Lalique.... Rarely if at all are they found at ANY boot fair or charity shop, Those days have long gone, unless you search far and wide and attend every sinlge such place, under the sun! (smile)

Permalink Reply by A Staffordshire Lad on November 29, 2011 at 2:41pm

Hello again Colin,

Please feel free to call me Bill, by the way. Most people do.........unless I've been up to no good :O/

I will drop you a line and you can certainly send me some photos, if you like. However, it may also be advisable for you to post them on here somewhere, like the Pottery group, because I'm only really savvy with our local Staffordshire potteries (concentrated mostly on my own favourites) and have only a limited knowledge of any other stuff. It may well be that other people on here would know more about the "other" stuff than I do.

The Moorcroft, of course, I would love to see and give you an opinion on :O)

I know little of the glass, as I said before, so I'm afraid Mr Woodall doesn't ring any bells. To be honest, I saw a tiny piece of Daum, decorated with poppies, in amongst some Moorcroft items I was viewing at a local auction. Really nice and so I did some googling..............but that's about it, I'm afraid, and I don't really expect to find anything at a boot sale, any time soon............although I have confidence that I will know it if I do see it ;O)

I'll drop you a quick email now, before I go and watch some football.

Bill.

Classy Glass said:

Hi William, My Fellow Countryman! You sound the kind of person I could need, for I have loads of pottery which is not my field at all and I struggle constantly to ID it or describe it with any degree of accuracy etc. I am quite literally discovering boxes of things which belonged to my late parents. Just today for example I found this incredible tea set of the finest porcelain imaginable and in pristine mint condition, by Haas
& Czjzek I alkso know that somehwre here is a box with very early Florian Moorcroft and early in date. My Mum & Dad were avid likemyself with their collective interest, but as I have only recently moved back here to live, I knew nothing of things which I am discovering.... You are more than welcome to email me personally for photos etc if you want. glassology@live.co.uk particularly once you return from a bootfair with a 50p Emille Galle lamp, or hey, have you ever seen examples of the English cameo glass works by George Woodall? Unsurpassed by ANY cameo glass maker....

Permalink Reply by Graceful Antiques on November 29, 2011 at 2:50pm

Howdy Bill. So glad you found us.

I love your items and appreciate your knowledge greatly in your field.

Helping each other out is fun. Noone can ever know everything about all antiques and vintage.

Sandy

Permalink Reply by A Staffordshire Lad on November 29, 2011 at 2:57pm

Hi Sandy,

Really nice to "talk" to you again and I hope all is well :O)

Bill.

Graceful Shops said:

Howdy Bill. So glad you found us.

I love your items and appreciate your knowledge greatly in your field.

Helping each other out is fun. Noone can ever know everything about all antiques and vintage.

Sandy

Permalink Reply by Graceful Antiques on November 29, 2011 at 3:35pm

The historical relevance far outweighs anything for me as I am a collector first and foremost.

The moderator Cheri of this group and me moderated together for years on Auctionbytes on a forum called The Haul helping others identify stuff.

Besides that I have never, ever understood some dealers attitudes for lack of better word.

Especially in a mall setting online. Names or tags and proper identification brings more customers and more eyes to a site.

They may look at my stuff but quite possibly they may also meander towards yours.

I am always stunned especially with glass that these treasures last over time.

Obsessed is an understatement with my love for all things vintage and antique.

Why I hang out here on the Vintage Village. A busy time of year as there are usually many people here.

Love your avatar by the way Colin.

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Graceful Vintage on Ruby Plaza.