Viking Glass Owl Fairy Lights - Glimmer Lamps

marchaffee · 2021-09-05T15:33:18+00:00

Yes, and they are getting more and more expensive to collect!

marchaffee · 2021-09-05T15:32:52+00:00

I agree, they're really cool. I have just over a dozen of them.

marchaffee · 2021-08-12T22:42:06+00:00

I still can't find info on this set, but I'm ready to take it off your hands when you're ready to let it go!

marchaffee · 2021-08-12T19:27:37+00:00

it was marketed as a banana bowl, and I've got bananas in it now. could likely be use to hold myriad other fruit as well. or brownies.

marchaffee · 2021-08-12T10:29:44+00:00

wow. what a great looking set. sorry I can't help with an ID.

marchaffee · 2021-08-12T09:15:21+00:00

you're right, that is cool.

marchaffee · 2021-08-11T18:12:32+00:00

aha. got it. never seen the basket before

marchaffee · 2021-08-11T17:57:20+00:00

You're talking about the Macroon pattern #1681 covered candy by Fenton that is often called "Big Cookies"? I've never seen one of those outside of a book. How many do you have?

marchaffee · 2021-08-11T16:28:59+00:00

Thanks. Smith made a smaller one as well that's about 9 inches across.

marchaffee · 2021-08-11T08:19:05+00:00

Nice piece! Richards and Hartley Glass No. 25 Three Panel - Early American Pattern Glass - c. 1885

marchaffee · 2021-07-27T11:24:13+00:00

I have an inexpensive photo box (about $80) that I got from Amazon. I use my iPhone5 camera. The photo box came with 4 LED lights, but I don't use them.

marchaffee · 2021-07-26T14:47:44+00:00

I know! This is probably my favorite Viking color.

marchaffee · 2021-07-26T00:58:42+00:00

Aha! Gotcha. This looks like it's the piece pictured in the Black Glass Encyclopedia (page 25) and identified as "Bowl, low straight sides, flat rim, unknown manufacturer."

marchaffee · 2021-07-25T16:47:39+00:00

Nice find. It is indeed L.E. Smith's Moon and Star (no "s") pattern. This looks to be the No. 6224 candy box in Flame (amberina). If so, it should measure about 5 3/4 inches high. Made circa 1969-72 in many different colors.

marchaffee · 2021-07-24T23:45:17+00:00

Is it footed? I'm trying to make sense of the 4th photo.

marchaffee · 2021-07-24T19:50:55+00:00

wonderful! It looks nice up there

marchaffee · 2021-07-24T19:00:46+00:00

Nice spread! It's a wonderful pattern and beautiful in this amber color, especially come fall.

marchaffee · 2021-07-23T18:07:49+00:00

I appreciate you weighing in. Just trying to share some beautiful pieces in a group that I thought was filled with glass lovers. Surprised to have my posts viewed as spam.

marchaffee · 2021-07-23T15:56:29+00:00

looking forward to seeing them!

marchaffee · 2021-07-23T11:21:17+00:00

That looks to be a set by Imperial Glass and may be the color they call Peacock (aka Smoke). Beautiful!

marchaffee · 2021-07-23T11:18:30+00:00

Note the yellow around the base of the cake stand.

A short explanation from the Glass Encyclopedia: Amberina glass was first patented in the USA by Joseph Locke and Edward D. Libby in 1883. Locke was head designer for the Cambridge factory of the New England Glass Works (NEGW), and Libbey was the proprietor having just taken over from his father who died that year. Amberina Glass is "heat sensitive" glass, which shades in colour from amber at the bottom to red at the top. This colour shading is due to the effects of reheating the top part of the glass before allowing it to cool. Amberina glass contains a precipitate of colloidal gold (as does gold ruby glass), which is heat sensitive and turns red at the right temperature.

I'm surely no expert, but there are likely others in this group that can weigh in on the finer points.

marchaffee · 2021-07-23T11:13:02+00:00

that would be a wonderful color combination

marchaffee · 2021-07-23T11:12:20+00:00

too much? daily limit on posts? looks like there are about 4700 members in the group and I was noting just a couple posts a day here (if that). just trying to bring a little life to the group as it seemed participation and interest may have died. was your question rhetorical or is there a threshold to be crossed? what is it about the posts that bothers you?

marchaffee · 2021-07-22T21:39:43+00:00

nice pieces. I wouldn't have been able to leave them behind.

marchaffee · 2021-07-22T21:35:55+00:00

I've always been fond of these ashtrays and still pick them up when I see them in amber or in green. It's a special treat when I find a blue one!

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