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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 Classy Glass on -
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.... -
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Permalink Reply by A Staffordshire Lad on
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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.... -
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Permalink Reply by Graceful Shops on -
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
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Permalink Reply by A Staffordshire Lad on
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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
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Permalink Reply by Classy Glass on
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Hi Sandy,
Am fairly new to Vintage Village and Ruby Lane and so navigating my way around is still problematic for me, however I have just visited to take a look at your own wonderful things. You are so right too in what you say, for each and every one of us learn something new each day, no matter what our own collective interests may be, but that is all a part of the fun, though of course also frustrating at the same time, when one is unable to id something or has to rely upon guesswork.
Best to You,
Colin
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Permalink Reply by Graceful Shops on
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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.
Graceful Antiques on Ruby Lane
Graceful Vintage on Ruby Plaza.
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Permalink Reply by Classy Glass on
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I could not agree with you more. One of the joys for me personally since opening my own shop, is the re-discovery of not only my own things but to be surrounded by so mnany like-minded people here at VV and of course on Ruby Lane itself where I have been made to feel very welcome.. A day never passes without me taking a look at the wonderful things in other folks shops and also travelling to fairs and shops here in the UK. I was fortunate indeed that my late parents influenced me greatly to things of antiquity. Incidently, my avatar is an exceptionally rare glass lamp by Sabino, which shall remain with me forever until passing on to my Daughter Karis & My Son, Jared who has Autism. I have been an admirer of glass in particular since aged just ten and have collected it ever since. Not for its value, but for the very medium that it is, for just as say some love their silver or pottery for example, I am as avid for glass and knew from a very young age that I wanted to wrk with it too and so having also been an independent glass blower myself, I cannot imagine a day without it running through my veins... Of course it can argued that glass is perhaps the most fragile of all items, but one can often forget that most glass in the main was produced to be used as intended and so too it should be, just as an antique chair should be sat upon or a Tea Pot should be used, not that I am sugesting we make a brew, in histoirically important items! Each and every one of us are Custodians of such items and as such have a responsibilty to them too.
I am in AWE of the friendship newly found by all that I have met on these pages since deciding to part with some of my treasures. As a single parent, and with no family left save for my children, it is time now for others to become thier custodians. I have that responsibilty before I leave this world, which is the sole reason as to why I now part with it. I am also a designing artist and as I cannot work outside of my home (due to my Son's needs, and as a single parent) I shall be concentrating upon my artwork more, as we all of us need an income. Glass blowing is something which cannot be done in my bedroom, and so alas those days are gone and very sadly missed they are too, but?
As for breakages or as to why so many antiques remain undamaged, is that MOSTLY accidents only happen through over zealous cleaning or handling. The less that they handled then the better they are for it. This may contradict what I say about using such items, but DUST etc. is every antiques worst nightmare (in my point of view) and so the better they are displayed away from dust, then the more liklihood they will forever survive.
I also find it very encouraging today, that new generations are collectors and admirers, just as I was way back when, for I rue the day should this ever not be...
Best to you,
Colin
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