Monthly Archives: October 2013

Now Identified as Bohemia Etoile – Update to Bohemia Crystal Gold Rimmed Edge with the Queen’s Lace Etch

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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Luckily this has been identified by ‘someone in the know’ as Bohemia Crystal in the Etoile pattern.  Replacements also shows this stem in this blank – yippie!

I am pleased to have the mystery solved (March 23, 2015).

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Original Post – October 26, 2013

I have various pieces of this etch including a decanter.  In the replacements.com database the blank is different.  All of my pieces have this stem.008

This piece is likely a sherry glass or cordial.  It’s not my favourite pattern, but I guess it’s pretty enough.

Westmoreland Lovebirds Covered Dish

25 Friday Oct 2013

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Westmoreland Lovebirds - perhapsWelcome back to myself!  I have been very lackadaisical about updating my poor blog.  As the Beatles said, “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy looking the other way!”

I have not been acquiring at the rate that I used to.  In fact I am trying to downsize my collections and have been repacking boxes in the garage, giving away stuff and putting stuff aside for Christmas gifts.  Having said that…there are still a few treasures to show off.

This particular covered dish is a case in point.  I bought it online.  It was advertised as a piece of Westmoreland glass.  I knew Westmoreland made a covered lovebirds dish, but I still wondered if this was accurate but didn’t have any reference materials to verify this.

I bought it anyway and then ordered a copy of the book Westmoreland Glass: 1950-1984 volumes 1 & 2 by Lorraine Kovar.

As it runs out Westmoreland made this piece in many colours.  But……there is a note in the book to say that it was also reproduced in the colour alexandrite.  It’s hard to see in the photo, but the dish is a pretty darkish pink or lilac, but it might be considered to be alexandrite.

I posted a query on the Everyday and Elegant Glass Forum, asking if this is alexandrite in anyone’s opinion.  I also asked who made Westmoreland Reproductions.  I had one respone that said that Dalzell/Viking had some lovebirds on ebay as well, but I don’t see any now.  I may try a glass forum to which I belong on Facebook.

In any event, I have a very pretty piece, that is Westmoreland in my mind and I have a neat, interesting book.

 

Red Flashed Rose Bowl with a Cornflower Cut

10 Thursday Oct 2013

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Cornflower Red Cut (2)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.