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Cambridge Aurora – Cobalt Blue…….and now the Green…..and now the Carmen and Amethyst.

16 Sunday Oct 2016

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Cambridge Aurora Carmen Stem (2)I think the Cobalt pieces are still my favourite.  I love the rich, red blue.  However I find all of Cambridge’s colours that I have seen ‘live’ to cambridge-aurora-amethystbe very attractive.  I think I have already posted the pieces in the red separately, but thought I’d put these all together for comparison.

Here are the 4 1/4 inch cocktail glasses in Carmen (red) and Amethyst (purple). Also pretty.

 

 

 

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Posted on January 16, 2016

Cambridge Aurora Water Goblet (1)I am enjoying the start to the New Year in sunny, beautiful Jamaica.  While I have seen my share of stemware,  none of it has been old!

But this pretty piece fits the bill.  While I never did acquire a water goblet in all of the produced colours, I picked up three of these glasses some time ago.  I looked through my book in Cambridge’s colours and think that this is their Forest Green.   A very rich shade.

 

 

 

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September 15, 2013

Cambridge AuroraI have been ignoring my blog – shame on me.  It’s not as if I don’t have some things to show off, just been busy!

Isn’t this gorgeous????  I almost bought three of these pieces in Cambridge, Mass. I was sorry that I hadn’t bought them, so I have been looking out for them since.

The photo doesn’t show the colour to its fullest richness.  This is a beautiful, deep blue.

This pattern, 1066, was also made in clear, red, amethyst, moonlight blue, gold and green.  I like the blue the best, but it occurs to me that a set with one of each colour would be attractive too!

Requiem for…….Portieux Vallerysthal Blue Vase with Goat Head Decorations

28 Tuesday Jun 2016

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Portieux Vallerysthal White Vase (3)As stated (below) I had regrets that I sold my blue vase and eventually I did replace it with another one in blue.

I found out that they were made in other colours as well and I bought this one in white/cream/custard.  It is slightly shorter than the blue vase, but just as gorgeous.

I ‘think’ there is one in green, but wouldn’t bet money on it.  If so, however, I ‘have’ to have one.

The Canadian/US dollar exchange rate is brutal however, so it could be awhile!

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This post – February 14, 2014

Portieux Vallerysthal VaseI know this sounds silly, but every so often I sell a piece of glass and it makes me feel a twinge of regret.  This is one of those pieces.  I have had it for almost a year and a half now.  I can’t recall how long it has been for sale, but it’s been awhile.

I could never understand why it didn’t sell.  I thought this would be snatched up right away.  It is a gorgeous piece.  The colour is very attractive and the details are most interesting.  Maybe the photo didn’t really represent the vase well enough.Portieux Vallerysthal Vase (2)

It has been a fixture on my “blue’ shelf……..my shelf of blue glass……and I will miss seeing it there.  Yes, I know I didn’t have to sell it.  But…..now there will be space for another blue piece.  Well, at least for awhile.

The only good thing, is that anyone reading this post likely has their own glass ‘thing’ and will completely understand!

It is heading off to beautiful British Columbia.  I hope the buyer enjoys it!

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Original September 3, 2012 posting

This weekend we moved my youngest from one apartment to another in Ottawa.  We took the scenic route home and stopped at a few shops en route.  We went into a great antique market in Perth.  What a neat little town, definitely worth a longer visit.

I was taken with this pretty blue vase.  Didn’t know a thing about it, but liked the goat’s heads on the sides.

I posted the photo on the Elegant and Everyday Glass Forum site and a gentleman indicated that he thought (subject to verification) that the piece is as I’ve indicated – French,  and perhaps 1907/1908.

Whatever – it is pretty and I will enjoy it.

Anchor Hocking Fire-King Devilled Egg Tray – Delphite

26 Saturday Mar 2016

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IMG_3560It seems appropriate to highlight this devilled egg tray over the weekend where eggs, albeit chocolate, are on the minds of lots of little ones.  I have a couple of these trays – one in peach lustre and this one in the delphite – and I have often marveled at the concept of a separate tray for eggs!  Although I must admit that it looks nice on the table with eggs on it!

I bought the book – Delphite & Jadite by Joe Keller & David Ross and learned a few interesting things:

  1.  That the opaque pieces of delphite/delfite/chaline are more expensive to collect, and harder to find than jadite, which I thought was expensive enough!
  2. Delphite was first introduced by McKee in the late 1920s.
  3. There are a number of distinct colours with chaline being a lighter, more vibrant shade of blue.
  4. Anchor Hocking’s pieces, produced under the Fire-King lines in the 1950s and 1960s were made in turquoise blue and azurite.  Azurite is a very pale blue which looks almost white in tint.IMG_3561

This tray is obviously Anchor Hocking’s turquoise.

This is a great book with lots of illustrations.  There are many pieces in both colours that I have never seen.

I love the fact that the bottom of the tray, although not seen when in use, has been so attractively fashioned.