23 Saturday Jul 2016
It has been awhile since I have posted on this blog. Not for lack of interest or acquisitions. But….summer travel and gardening makes me want to me outdoors.
Thought I’d put my nose to the grindstone (a/k/a laptop) and try to post some recent purchases.
………I don’t know why I keep buying pieces with the Corn Flower cutting. I have many – don’t use them and don’t sell them. They are very common in my part of Canada. But…..
This piece is a nice solid piece of pressed glass.
27 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in Heisey
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I was trolling Around the Block just before Christmas looking for some jadite mugs. Didn’t find any, but came away with this pretty three lite candelabra. I was pretty sure it was a piece of Heisey, which was verified by the “H in a diamond” mark. However I kept referring to it as “Plantation” when in fact the piece of vegetation is not a pineapple, but is an acorn!
I gather researchers and collectors call the pattern “Tricorn”, but the name is actually “Triplex” and this is line #129.
The piece was made in a number of colours and in crystal with a different colour base.
20 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in Unknown Pressed
I picked this piece up awhile back. I assumed, because of its size, (the vessel stands almost 8 inches without the stopper) that it was a decanter.
I posted it, looking for an ID, and was advised that it might have served as a cologne/tonic container for a barbershop, back in the day.
It obviously had gilt on it as there are still remnants around the leaves. I like the way that the stopper is also decorated.
I am guessing that this is late nineteenth, early twentieth century, but would love to be corrected.