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Unknown Hobnail Lamp

08 Thursday Aug 2013

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028My guy is my silent partner in the glass buying crime!  He pretends that he scorns my obsession, but either comes home with stuff that I like, or ‘makes’ me buy things about which I am dubious.

This is one of the items he ‘forced” me to acquire.  We were in Fort Erie, visiting my mom and doing the rounds of thrift shops.  He, although not to be admitted even under threat of torture, fell in love with this piece.  I was reluctant to buy it because now we have to find a shade that fits on the bulb, that looks appropriate and is in good shape.

I have to say that I don’t need to have a vintage shade as I don’t like yellowed stuff.

I haven’t even put a bulb in this lamp so don’t know if it works.  But…it is cute and maybe I’ll find a shade, and maybe I’ll find a place to put it some day.

 

 

Indiana Glass Wild Rose Bowls

28 Sunday Jul 2013

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Indiana Glass Wild RoseI think I have mentioned that my wonderful eldest child decided to use white and blue Pyrex dishes that I bought her awhile back as her ‘set’.  So she put the call out for white side pieces.  I was so happy to have a purpose for purchasing!

I picked up the milkglass Lily Pons bowl I posted awhile back, and these two bowls, also from Indiana Glass.  The pattern is called Wild Rose.  According to the wonderful Indiana Glass/Carnival Heaven site, this pattern was also called Wild Rose and Leaves and Gloria Anne.

It’s hard to tell from the photos, but the bottom centre of the large bowl is almost transluscent.Indiana Glass Wild Rose (2)

According to Replacements, the small bowl is a ‘fruit cocktail’.  I thought that it might have been an individual nut bowl.

In any event….does the child want any of them?  No.

Fenton (?) White Hobnail Crimped Vase

31 Monday Dec 2012

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Hobnail VaseLast new hobnail piece that I am going to show.  I also bought another white hen on nest, but I’ve already shown one off.

No markings on this vase, but I am assuming that it is a piece of Fenton.  Eight inches (more or less) tall.  Pretty common.  I am guessing again, that it is at least 30 years old.

I used to have the exact same piece in blue, but sold that ages ago.  I’m not too crazy about the white hobnail (I must admit) but it IS easy to find.Hobnail Vase (2)

I also saw a lidded white milkglass box on a stand in Fort Erie.  I think it was a cigarette holder.  I’m kind of sorry that I didn’t buy it.  But…oh well……Can’t have everything!