Wednesday, December 5, 2012

We’ve been discussing a colored olive dish. Brent Wedding of Corning adds this:

Alan,

The Steuben catalog Feb 2011 B offers an olive dish with colorless scroll handle and Indigo Blue bowl. The shape number is 9629.

Best regards,

Brent Wedding

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Rande Bly of Birmingham, Alabama talks glue chip

I would like to share on a shape 7218 Lemonade I saw. I purchased 7 7218 Lemonades in Topaz with Celeste handle, Clear with Pomona handle, Topaz with Pomona handle,etc. from this same seller.

Marshall shows this mug comes in Bristol Yellow with Pomona handle in Book two page 219. This shape is nearly always internally vertical ribbed with slight swirl.

What I see in these mugs under magnification of the photograph is glue chip. I see a 7218 in Bristol Yellow with Pomona handle done in glue chip to body, applied handle and complete exterior acid bath within a 1/4 inch of the top rim. They are internally ribbed with slight swirl. Glue chip is very rare and nothing else looks like it. Steuben made some in the 1920’s but it never hit production. When the glass breaks on the surface of the piece it is very thin and almost looks clear giving the pieces the appearance that they are coated in ice or frost. Length of time in the acid bath can vary to change the surface texture.

As the story goes the seller purchased them from a family member of someone who worked for Steuben or Corning. I bid what I thought was way too much and was outbid. I am sorry. I tried to get them so we could have them first hand to study as an example. The seller also had a 5 prong – prong vase in Celadon that Marshall has already added to the web site even before it sold for over $1200.00! Amazing speed thanks Marshall!!

So, the question is…..what in the heck were those yellow Lemonades?

Rande Bly

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