Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Yesterday we dealt with a red selenium perfume with a laticino ball connector .

Marshall Ketchum points out that in the factory records this technique is referred to as Silverine Rosa. I asked why this obviously laticino technique had this label in the factory records. Here is Marshall’s response.

I was having an email conversation with Bonnie Salzman about some of her perfumes and she had called the ball stem of one of her perfumes by that name. I questioned her about it and she sent me a copy by email of a Steuben blue print that used that name, Silverine Rosa. The balls appear to be mica flecked so that is where the Silverine must come from. I assume that stoppers made the same way would have the same name.

By the way, the same blue print also showed a 6574 goblet with a Silverina Air Trap bowl. That must be the shape number of the assortment of stemware that that I have accumulated for the website that I did not really know the number for.

So, another lesson from this is that it is not uncommon to have the same shape numbers for tableware that covers a number of different types and shapes of glass. Therefore, sometimes the same numbers will appear in different sections of Gardner’s book. Many times a shape number will show up for something like a goblet, but then not the rest of the set. The problem is that if you don’t have access to the blue prints, which only a few have, you may be out of luck in figuring these shapes out. However, bit by bit this will be developed on the www.cardersteubenclub.org web site as Marshall as webmaster discovers and sorts this out.

For example, see http://cardersteubenclub.org/shapes/results-view.cfm?keyword=1 (if you have any trouble go to the website an do a search on shape 6574)

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