10 Thursday Apr 2014
Posted in Northwood
This pretty marigold piece has lots of neat detailing. There is the scalloped edge, the rayed interior, the floral design on the exterior, beads on the exterior and little feet that look like twigs.
Both Carnival Heaven and David Doty’s Carnival Glass sites show photos of a number of samples. Some of them are quite beautiful.
This little bowl is in great shape for having been made in the early years of the twentieth century.
10 Thursday Oct 2013
Posted in Unknown Engravings/Etches
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.
14 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in Unknown Cuts
There’s something appealing about having one vase in which to float one pretty rose. Not that I have ever done that of course.
I don’t know if this is old or not. It is very heavy and the cuts are large. But I wonder if rose bowls are old fashioned. I mean even more ‘old fashioned’ then the stuff I have here.
My guy picked this up for me at an auction. He seems to be becoming the source for most of my new acquisitions! I’ll just have to put a rose in it. My single rose bush hasn’t had large flowers – it’s only in its 3rd or 4th year however, so maybe this year!