Peter Lockett of Winnipeg, Canada responds to this lovely decorated green scent bottle we’ve
been looking at this past week:

I have researched the silver maker’s mark on the questionable bottle. The maker is R. Blackinton & Co., North Attleboro, MA. The company operated from 1862 to 1967. William Eric Voss indicates, on the Silversmiths of America site, that the original mark of this company, a sword through a B, was used until 1900. If this is correct, this would be too early for a silver mount on Steuben glass.
Well, Peter, all this suggests that someone made a bottle currently, took an historic silver cap and put it on the bottle to pass off as a true antique bottle. The dating on the cap precedes 1903 when Steuben began operations through 1915 when such a bottle would not have been produced anymore. Also, from other e-mails we learn this decorating style has been seen passed off in a number of antique venues these last 6 months. It is good to alert collectors of these bogus vessels being passed off as true antiques of Carder or other makers, whoever they may be. The unanswered question that no one has been able to address is who is producing this. I see a lot of vases on eBay attributed to Radtke, that have the look of an Aurene. This is forthright and honest and we know what they are. However, who is producing these decorated green bottles?

In the last e-mail we asked the question. Who made the questionable decorated green lay down
perfume? In response David Goldstein of Naples, FL referred to his wife, Elissa’s response:
Elissa thought that it was Carl Radke and recalls him making Green iridescent glass with millefiore murrines like those on the bottle, although she does not remember him making lay-down perfumes. He is still working and it may be worthwhile for the owner of the bottle to contact Carl at Phoenix Studios, which is his trade name.

In another e-mail Sam Kissee of Chico, CA supplied Carl Radke’s (Templeton, CA) web site.
http://www.phoenixartglass.com/
Click on the web site. Then go to the section on “Catalogue”. Then go to page 3 of the catalogue. A showing of decorated green with millefiore flowers. Do you think Carl’s the creator of the lay down perfume? Carl Radke’s front page says his work is “Museum Quality Restorations and Custom Commissions. All pieces signed and dated by the artist.”