03 Sunday Nov 2013
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I bought four of these in the Kitchener/Waterloo area (I think) in August. I was dogsitting my grandbeagle over the long weekend yet managed to check out a few shops! I was hoping to identify them, but no luck so far. Perhaps I will post them on Facebook today.
The have been posted on my favourite Elegant and Everyday Glass, by someone else, but remain unidentified.
In any event they are very pretty. A nice dainty etch with flowers, ribbon and swag. Look like open champagnes.
10 Thursday Oct 2013
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This is how The Encyclopedia of Glass (Mark Pickvet) defines flashing or flashed glass:
“A very thin applied exterior coating of a different color from the base color (thinner than a casing or an overlay). Flashing is usually completed by dropping a gather of hot glass of one color into a pot or crucible that contains a different color in such a manner as to cause only a thin layer to adhere.”
You can’t see the flashing in the photo, but it is a shiny orangey coating on top of the red.
When you buy flashed glass, you want to make sure that the coating isn’t scratched.
This piece has a “Made in Canada” sticker. It is not a piece of W.J. Hughes Cornflower. Hughes did not use flashing in production.
There was a glasscutter named R. G. Sherriff who had worked for Hughes, but left the company to start up his own business in Toronto. He cut a very similar pattern uner the guise of Crystalware. Hughes and Sherriff were in litigation over Hughes assertions that Sherriff had violated his rights.
Anyway…the long an short of it is that I have no idea if Sherriff cut this or not. Could be someone else’s. It’s pretty …so I picked it up in Cobourg a couple weeks ago.
01 Tuesday Oct 2013
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I should probably be showcasing some amber or marigold glass, because it’s the first day of October. But…I think I’ve already posted all of that glass. I’ll have to check!
Over the weekend I was repacking some boxes and came across these pieces. Interesting look at a similar etch, but different blanks.
I imagine that a number of companies produced this band of circles. I have no idea who made the blanks and won’t bother to try to find out to be honest. I dont think I bought the three that are the same, at the same time. They do look very similar however. I like the shape of the one taller, narrower piece. But while the circles are interesting, they aren’t particularly pretty. Off to the garage they went!