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$75.00Flower Petal Glass Vintage Finger Candles and Bonn Bonn with Liner
Rare Federal Flower Petal glass candle holder lanterns with matching bowl and plate. Circa 1950’s-1960’s. The distinctive pattern is called Petal #2829.
Set includes 2 hard to find finger candle lantern sets. Matching service bowl with liner added to complete the decor set for your table.
Made of vintage thick pressed colorless pattern glass. Looks amazing on the dining or end table. All in excellent condition.
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$145.00English Hobnail milk glass table or console centerpiece ensemble.
Made in the 1940’s – 1950’s by Westmoreland Glass, U.S.A. All items except the long bowl are marked by maker, WG embossed on the seats. Westmoreland Glass was an elegant glass maker of the early to mid 20th century, USA. They are no longer in business.
Thick, sturdy milk glass in English hobnail. Hobnails are flattened with four points. Normal hobnail pattern is rounded. The long bowl has a Sawtooth rim.
The vintage fan vase measures 5.25″ tall, 6.5″ wide and 1 5/8″ thick. It is in excellent condition. The long bowl measures 12″ long & 5″ wide. The long bowl has a sliver chip off one of the sharp Sawtooth points. See images. The candlestick holders are 5″ tall, one has a sliver chip on the base which can’t be seen, the other in excellent condition.
Well-made and sturdy opaque white glass goes with any color scheme. Beautiful and elegant decor focal point set.
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$70.00Vintage Venetian glass golden Topaz free-form ashtray from the elegant days of Sophia Loren.
Watch Sophia’s old movies and you’ll see lots of examples of mid-century elegant Italian glass in the movie sets. The Venetian glass of the mid-20th century was upscale and fancy. An bowl like this was her style. Beautiful, elegant, memorable.
This old Italian beauty still retains its original label. Label reads: Vetro Artistico Veneziano Handmade Genuine Venetian Glass Made in Italy. Made in the 1950’s to 1960’s. At least 60 years old.
Weighs 1 lb. Measures 4¼” round, 2¼” tall. Nice deep bowl to catch and retain the ash. Rim was hand-formed to provide rests of different sizes. Accommodates all size smokes plus pipe resting. Makes a lovely flower, candy or candle bowl when not in ash service.
Beautiful golden yellow color lightens and darkens according to the thickness of the glass. In excellent condition.
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$85.00Hand blown glass Atomic Era Borske Sklo Czech decanter.
Retro Bohemian blown Czech glass decanter in Emerald Green with real gold decor and original solid glass Jetson style stopper.
This is a large blown Czech glass decanter, measuring 14″ tall. Hand blown and hand decorated. 1950’s Bohemian Glass made by Borske Sklo Glassworks, Czechoslovakia (now known as the Czech Republic).
In great+ condition. Gold decor is 98% present. Very small sliver chip on inner side of rim (can’t be seen unless looked for) where stopper meets decanter neck. Solid glass stopper and bottle neck are ground to fit snug. The vase shown in image 2 is not included.
Black streaks showing in the images are caused by light reflection on the gold. There are no vertical black marks on the glass or the gold. The gold decor is solid.
Great conversation starter and useful decor for your bar.
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Big, beautiful vintage mid-century modern Murano art glass horse.
This vintage Italian glass pony weighs in at 2¼ lbs and stands 9¾” tall, 8½” long and 3½” thick. It was blown hollow in multiple parts, then applied together by the artist.
Playful pony n excellent condition. Hollow parts are airtight, no fogging. No chips. Perfect. Blown in amber and crystal quality vintage glass.
Circa 1960’s to 1970’s. Maker unknown, but certainly from one of the great glass houses of Murano, Italy.
Great gift for the horse lover. Excellent decor for a high shelf in the kids room.
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$70.00Beautiful emerald green glass vase encased in quality crystal. Hand-made in Italy, circa 1970’s.
The style and form of this vase is often attributed to Seguso (Mid-20th Century Italian glass). The Seguso glass house did make a form like this, including the encased twisted colored glass in the tail. A vase exactly like this in emerald and crystal with applied fin feet is shown at Worthpoint.com as a Seguso piece.
High quality glass. The vessel was blown from on optic mold providing the vertical optic panels. The fins were crafted separately and applied. The twisted emerald glass encased in the tail is a difficult decor to achieve.
In excellent condition. Measures 8″ tall and 5½” at widest.
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$95.00Handmade vintage Murano art glass owl with green millefiori eyes.
Mid-20th century Italian made owl figurine possibly by Franco Moretti. Certainly vintage Murano glass by one of the fine glass makers of the time.
Quality multi-color glass layered by hand and encased with crystal. Inner layer of colorless glass is cased with Lattimo (milk glass) providing opacity. The Lattimo layer is cased with the colored mottled glass. The owl’s body has silver leaf in the colored glass layer and expertly controlled bubbles inside the red glass head. The green millefiori eyes and colorless beak were applied. The figurine is solid glass, not hollow.
In excellent condition. Big owl figurine stands 5″ tall, 3″ at widest and weighs 1.6 lbs.
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$125.00Large and Heavy Blenko Art Glass Bookends by Don Shepherd
Here’s an unusual set of Blenko Art Glass bookends. Nicely detailed sculptured American Indian bust. They were designed by Don Shepherd (1974 – 1988) as part of the ‘IceFlow’ line produced in 1977.
Big solid chunks of clay molded colorless glass weigh 9 lbs total. Guaranteed to hold your books without slipping.
Nice vintage quality thick, heavily textured Blenko Glass bookends. The room lighting enhances the decor by lighting it up in areas and by reflecting nearby colors. Really beautiful.
They stand 9½” tall, 4½” wide and 2½” thick. Weigh 4½ lbs each.
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$65.00Vintage Muranese Art Glass Hand Blown Stoppered Jug and Handled Bowl by Rainbow
Mid 1950’s art glass hand blown vessels for the vanity or table. Beautiful set by Rainbow Art Glass made in the USA.
Both were blown by hand with mottled white decor. The mottled decor combined with the style of the form was called ‘Muranese’ (Murano style), according to distributor ‘Belknap’ in their 1955 catalog, see image.
The jug/cruet has its original, fitted double-ball stopper. The dual handled urn is a scarce item, rarely seen today. The urn is slightly darker in color than the jug due to old-fashioned methods of mixing glass colors (by hand). Different batches of the same color often had slightly different tones.
Pontil scars from the glassblower’s punty on the base. Image 5 includes a large cobalt blue goblet to help show size and color.
Both in excellent condition. The jug measures 6″ tall. The urn is 3.25″tall and 4.25″ wide from handle to handle. The stoppered jug part no. was 781, and it came in six different fab shapes. Great fun to collect all shapes. The two-handled pot hasn’t been spotted in reference material.
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$150.00Set of Blenko Art Glass air twist goblets Line 500. Shown in Blenko’s 1956 catalog.
Very hard to find survivors of Blenko’s early years. Designed by Bill Blenko himself. Big and Beautiful hand-blown air twist stem goblets.
Set of two measure approx. 8½” tall. Flared bowl measures 4½” wide at top. One is in excellent condition, one has a small, thin sliver chip on the rim. See image 4.
Lovely dark amber bowl applied to the air twist stem. Circa late 1950’s.
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$95.00Rowland Ward Game Bird Song Bird Cut and Acid Etched Crystal Brandy Snifters
Set Of 4 Rowland Ward Game Bird brandy Glasses. Beautifully cut, then acid etched to achieve 3 dimensional detail. Very well made. Superb quality crystal.
Over-sized at 6″ tall. Perfect for your fine brandy, cognac or even whiskey. Hand-Blown.
Two of the four snifters retain the original label, all wording is faded out. We believe these were made by Moser in the name of Rowland Ward who was a big game enthusiast, taxidermist and naturalist in England.
The unreadable sticker on the upper foot leaves us puzzled. We haven’t seen a Moser sticker that looks like this. Date of make is unknown, estimated mid-20th Century. Perhaps it is a distributor’s sticker.
Superb quality. They ring like long, lingering bells. Very fine blown crystal. Detailed bird carvings, each different. In like-new condition.
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$95.00Morgantown El Mexicano Vintage Glass Plates Set of Eight – Scarce
Vintage glass plates by Morgantown are in a scarce pattern which has evolved since the early 1930’s, originally called El Mexicano. The pattern variation name ‘Crinkle’ was produced in 1962 through the 1970’s. Very hard to find today.
The pattern was originally designed to look like the primitive plates found at an Inca archaeology dig. According to Morgantown Glass, the Spaniards taught the Incas the secrets of glass, but they had only crude materials and tools which produced “rough hewn glass objects”. Advertised as “An Ancient Technique Revived!” Called by numerous names, Del Rey, El Mexicano, Ockner, El Rancho and Crinkle glass.
The vintage glass plates are made of heavy double layered glass. The two layers are sandwiched together, the seam can be seen nears the rims. Color is moss green, a yellowish green. Very heavy glass.
Set includes (2) 8″ plates and (6) 6.5″ plates. Heavy glass, 8.5 lbs total plate weight. Would make the perfect dessert set for country, mid-century gothic, primitive, ocean, or organic decor. In near mint condition.
There are no chips, no cracks, no hazing. The rough edged rims have a minute amount of chiggers, that can’t be seen at all.
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$260.00Set of 12 vintage Tiffin crystal goblets with elongated bubble stems from the 1970’s.
Ready to grace the table at your elegant dinner party. These high quality vintage crystal wine glasses produce lingering tones when plinked. Stylized air-bubble trapped within the 5-panel stem.
Produced in the 1970’s by Tiffin Glass, an upscale elegant glass maker from Ohio, USA. Cataloged Tiffin stem #17596.
Eleven of the twelve are in excellent condition. One has a shallow smooth rim chip on the upper bowl. Use the goblet with the rim chip as the ‘hostess glass’. Large goblets measure 6½” tall, 4″ wide bowl.
Incredibly hard to find this quality made vintage crystal stemware, especially as a set of 12.
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$45.00Pair of Bimini Glass style dancing figures stemmed glass goblets. Vintage handmade lamp-worked glass.
Set of curious figural stem glass goblets with tulip type vessels. Made in the style of Bimini, a famous Austrian producer of lamp-work art glass in the 1920’s-1930’s.
Extremely popular at the time, the famous fragile works introduced by Fritz Lampl and Joseph Berger was imitated by many other great glass makers of the past and present. Bimini is hard to identify as it is often unmarked. The infamous Venini (Italy) produced Bimini type forms during the same period. We do not know who made these interesting vessels or the age. Estimated circa 1920 – 1970.
Very unusual stemware. Perhaps they were not designed as drinking vessels because the ruffles allow spilling if your lips are not placed correctly. They make beautiful posy vases or candle holders. With candles burning inside the vessels, it looks as if the figures are carrying a huge torch.
Hand-made from thin torch worked glass. The foot is folded up on the rims and applied to the 6-part human figurine, which is applied to the thin blown bowl. The bowl decor is frosted white and stained red on the ruffle.
As with most vintage frosted and/or stained items, the vessels have a few areas of wear. The wear is hard to detect unless looking very closely. All else is in fine condition. Very light and delicate. Each stand approx. 7″ tall. One is slightly taller than the other due to the hand-made process.
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$65.00Vintage Royal Ruby Bubble coffee service set for four.
Set of Royal Ruby Bubble cups and saucers. Includes four saucers and four cups.
Beautiful patented Royal Ruby color by Anchor Hocking, USA circa 1940’s to 1960’s. This popular pattern was called Bubble. The first Anchor Hocking catalog featuring this pattern in 1941 called it Bullseye. The Bubble pattern came in Royal Ruby, colorless, Forest Green, Sapphire Blue, Opaque White, and Iridescent.
It’s great fun to collect the Bubble pattern. A large number of table glass and decorative forms were produced. The Royal Ruby color is most highly sought by collectors. Royal Ruby table glass, vases, etc. are favorites for adorning the holiday table.
Anchor Hocking made glass to endure heavy use. It’s hard to find this glass without some signs of usage because it is all at least 50 years old now. There are two sets available (choose quantity above) and all are in pristine condition.
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$115.00Beautiful and Large Vintage Glass Pitcher Vase With Hollow Blown Handle
Stunning vintage glass pitcher vase in light yellow graduating to orange color and diamond point pattern. The color is called Persimmon. This was made with a 4-part mold. 4-part molds were used up to the early 1900’s, rarely used after. Circa estimated to 1940.
This vintage glass pitcher vase was hand blown into mold with hand finished spout and applied free blown HOLLOW handle. The hollow handle suggests a very fine early maker. Northwood Glass produced a pattern exactly like this called Diamond Point, Westmoreland Glass called theirs English Hobnail (used as a generic name today), Cambridge Glass, Imperial Glass, New England Glass all produced English hobnail too. Actual maker unknown.
In very good++ condition. Bottom wear is heavy as it should be. Two small aged smoothed chiggers and one 1/8 inch stress mark (does not affect integrity of glass) beneath the daisy marked base. Pitcher must be turned upside-down to see it. The rest of the glass is in pristine condition. A few tiny bubbles in the glass are present and are expected in old pattern glass. The bubbles can’t be seen unless inspected closely.
Measures 7″ tall, 8.25″ from handle to spout and is 6.25″ wide. Can be used as a beverage pitcher or a floral vase.
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$55.00Vintage Art Glass Ruby Bowls by Pilgrim Art Glass
Pair of vintage art glass ruby bowls by Pilgrim Art Glass hand-made in mid-20th century U.S.A.
Shown in 1960’s Pilgrim Art Glass catalogs as style no. 437269. Part of Pilgrim Art Glass’ Epic line.
Designed by the infamous Moretti brothers who studied on the Isle of Murano in Italy. Made in Murano style, formed by hand with applied handles. Pontil scars on the base.
These beautiful ruby bowls with colorless applied handles have multiple uses. Perfect on the dining table for gravy and sauces. Also make nice snack servers, flower holders or catch-all’s. Beautiful as hostess gifts filled with goodies.
Measure 7.5″ long, 6.5″ wide and 2.75″ tall. Offered as a set of two. Both in perfect condition.
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$110.00Lovely large vintage cranberry glass flared vase with original Pilgrim Art Glass label.
Perfect size for a dozen big roses (image 1 has small wooden roses shown). Measures 9″ tall with a 6¼” wide flared opening. Weighs 2½ pounds.
Pilgrim is famous for their cranberry glass creations. This is an unusual form, rarely seen. Estimated circa 1960’s to 1970’s.
Pulled from a multi-optic panel mold, then mouth blown to size and hand-finished to create the form. The rim is shaved and polished. Distinctive triple hoop base. The pontil scar was erased when the rim was shaved.
This large vintage cranberry glass vase is clean as a whistle, rarely used if at all. Label still attached. There is one extremely tiny flea bite on the rim. Cannot be seen but can be felt when running a finger over the rim.
Cranberry glass achieves its color from the addition of real gold to the glass batch. The amount of gold used determines the shade of pink. This big beauty is in a medium dark shade.
Give your love a dozen roses in a stunning hand-made vintage cranberry glass vase by the infamous Pilgrim Art Glass! He or she will swoon and love you forever.
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$160.00Morgantown Crystal 32 Panel Blown Crystal Bar Tumbler Set of 12
Vintage blown crystal bar tumbler set by Morgantown Glass USA. Made in the early 1950’s. Morgantown Glass part no. 715. Set of 12 includes (6) 15 oz. highball tumblers and (6) 1½ oz. cordial shot glasses
Hand-blown crystal from a 32 panel optic mold. The plethora of optic panels produce a beautiful shimmer that’s hard to capture in images. It is very unusual to have so many panels.
Made of quality crystal. Rims are heat finished. Dark olive green solid glass foot was hand-made and applied to to the bowl. Pontil marks at the base of the foot. The highballs measure 6.25″ tall, the shot glasses are 2.5″ tall.
Strong crystal ring tone. No damage, like new. Incredibly beautiful glassware for the table or bar. Made in the U.S.A. Rare find, especially as a set.
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$90.00Vintage Gold Leaf Venetian Art Glass bowl.
Made in 1950’s Italy in Venetian style on the Isle of Murano. In image 6, an ashtray exactly like this one (in a different color) is shown with the original maker’s label which reads: Hand made Genuine Venetian Glass Made in Murano Italy Vetro Artistico Veneziano. Vetro Artistico Veneziano means Artistic Venetian Glass in Italian.
The label was used as an official Italian export label, actual artist unknown. Glass offered specifically for export was made by all the great glass makers in Italy.
This ashtray does not have the original label attached.
Hand-made in colorless glass with abundant gold leaf veils trapped inside.
Back in the day when everyone smoked, beautiful bowls like this were created for multiple purposes. Functions as an ashtray, catch-all, floral bowl, candle-holder and sauce or candy bowl. Note: Always remove metal part from modern candles when using with vintage glass.
Vintage Italian art glass excellent condition. Measures 5½ long on three sides and 2¾” tall.
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$55.00Vintage Blown Royal Ruby Glass Vanity Set Made in USA
In Anchor Hocking’s patented ruby glass color. Set includes: (1) covered canister just the right size for vanity items; (1) a vase for your posies; and (1) matching tumbler
Vintage Royal Ruby glass is unique, beautiful and functional. Deep jewel-like ruby color like this can’t be found on new made items. Perfect for the vanity, guest bathroom, kitchen or bar.
First developed in 1938, this wonderful ruby glass color survived through the 1970’s. Royal Ruby glass was produced in 100’s of shapes. Extra fun to collect.
All in excellent condition with medium bottom-wear. Circa 1940’s to 1970’s. Jar stands 8.5″ tall, 4″ round with a base girth of 12″. Water tumbler is 5″ tall. Vase is 6.5″ tall. All are blown from mold.
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$210.00Big Blenko Art Glass Decanter Charcoal Crackle
This Blenko Art Glass decanter bottle was made in the rare Charcoal color. Item’s in Blenko’s Charcoal color are relatively hard to find. The color was produced only a few years; 1954 to 1958, 1961 to 1962, and 1971.
The giant form was designed by Winslow Anderson, an infamous mid-century glass artist who worked with Blenko from 1947 to 1953. It is a 920L decanter and originally came with a tall teardrop stopper in matching color. This decanter has lost its original stopper. The stoppers are very easy to break and usually don’t survive the years.
The bottle is shown with a ‘married’ ruby glass hand-blown stopper from the same era. The stopper fits well, in itself is hard to find, and looks awesome until a matching charcoal flame stopper is found.
The bottle was mouth-blown, hand-formed, then sheared at the neck opening. It was dipped in ice water while still hot to create the crackle effect. The neck opening rim was fire-polished smooth.
The base still retains Blenko’s inventory label. It reads: “Blenko, Milton W.VA 0920L”. The bottle stands a whopping 16.5″ tall and weighs 3.6 lbs. The neck opening is 1 1/8″ wide (measured from inner wall). In perfect condition. Glass is clean and brilliant.
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$75.00Big Retro Modern Optic Blown Glass Goblet Vase
Big and beautiful hand-blown optic glass vase in grass green. Made in retro modern 1960’s Italy. The giant bowl was blown from a diamond optic mold and the hand-worked domed base and stem were individually applied.
In perfect original condition. Glass is clean and brilliant. Shown next to normal size wine glass in image one to illustrate its large size. These beautiful old mod vases make lovely draping plant or floral holders.
Larger than it seems! Measures 12″ tall, 8″ at widest with a widest girth of 23½”.
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$140.00Vintage Mid-Century Modern glass pitcher and goblets.
Set of Mid-Century Modern glass cocktail pitcher and four goblets. Hand blown vintage bar glass in dark blood red with colorless twisted stems. Includes a glass stir stick.
Made by hand. Probably of Scandinavian origin. Circa 1960’s. Quality vintage glass.
The colorless twisted stems are applied to the bowl and foot. The rims are heat finished. The dark smoky red color is unusual and appealing.
Set includes four 4.5″ tall goblets, one 8″ tall stylized pitcher and one colorless glass stir stick. Set is in wonderful condition, no signs of use.
Perfect for your next classy cocktail party!
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$110.00Hand-made Pulegoso art glass from Mid-20th Century Italy with foamy bubble decor trapped within emerald green and clear glass layers.
Back in the days of art glass studios, when beautiful objects were produced by masters of the art for everyday use, elaborate decorative bowls like this were made by famous artists and distributed throughout the world. The art glass studio era ended in the 1980’s, but was in full revival until then, making glass objects using methods gleamed from antiquity. This Italian Pulegoso art glass beauty was created sometime between 1920 and 1970.
According to the Corning Museum of Glass; Pulegoso
(Italian, from the dialect word pulega, “bubble” Glass containing numerous bubbles of all sizes, produced by adding bicarbonate of soda, gasoline, or other substances to the melt. The bubbles make the glass semi-opaque…. Pulegoso was developed by Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892-1977) on the island of Murano, Italy, in the 1920s.It’s big and very useful. It was designed to double as a catch-all, flower bowl, candle holder, snack bowl, and even as an ashtray. Measures 6″ wide, 7″ long, 3.5″ tall and weighs 2.8 lbs.
There are no chips or cracks. There is some light use marks in the center of the bowl caused by over 50 years of use. But the glass is still brilliant and whole and the use marks are hard to see. We are offering this rare item at a discounted price due to the use wear.
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$40.00Retro modern glass candle tube chimney in hand-blown Tangerine
Tangerine retro glass candle chimney made in the 1960’s – 1970’s. Mod hot orange color called Tangerine by most mid-century modern glass makers.
Made to fit over puck style candlestick holders. Reflects a beautiful soft dark orange light with lit candle inside. Shown with a Blenko Chestnut puck candle holder (available separately).
In like-new condition. Contains an elongated bubble within the glass left by the hand-blowing process. Measures 6.75″ tall, 4″ wide, circumference 12.75″.
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$40.00Imperial Glass Open Rose Rubigold Lustre 10″ Bowl Vintage
This large Imperial Glass Open Rose Rubigold bowl measures 10″ round, 3¾” tall and weighs 2.2 lbs. Made of quality, thick vintage glass. The pattern ‘Open Rose’ is deep and detailed. Sometimes you’ll find dulled, almost blurred patterns on antique or vintage pattern glass due to an aging, overused mold. This bowl’s pattern is sharp and clear. It is in excellent condition.
Imperial Glass began making Carnival Glass around 1908. In 1962 Imperial made the first reissues of their Carnival pattern glass. Most, but not all, items from this period were marked with the well known IG. The color ‘Rubigold’ was produced only between 1965 and 1972. This bowl was not marked with the IG on the base.
Beautiful color with shy hints of Ruby highlights within the iridescent gold carnival glass. Lovely bowl for your table or as a hostess gift filled with goodies.
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$90.00Hand blown Danish Modern crystal cocktail set in like-new condition with box.
Elegant, high-end Danish Modern crystal. This series was called ‘Elsinore’ and was made in different sizes and colors in stemware and pitchers.
Four of the six cocktail stems retain the original ‘Kastrup Holmegaard‘ label. This label was first used in 1965 and was changed in 1975 when Kastrup (a very, very old Danish glass making company) was dropped from the label.
They are all in excellent condition. Beautiful, well-made glass. The bowl, stem and foot were hand-blown separately and then applied to each other. Smoke grey color with just a hint of smoke olive green.
The box took a beating, but the cocktail stems survived. It’s so nice to have the box because it identifies the series name. Measure 3.75″ tall with a 3″ wide mouth. Holmegaard part no. G6736 (found inside box). Circa 1965 to early 1970’s.
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$370.00Big hand blown art glass vase set with exterior polychrome and aventurine murrina décor.
Mysterious hand blown art glass vase set. We are unable to identify the maker or the era at this time. The only decor match we’ve found was described as “vasa Murrhina”, but it was on a vase from the first century A.D. This unique pair of vases are not from the first century. They were probably made in the 1940’s-1960’s.
They could be mid-century Italian/Murano/Venetian: Pezzato (Venini), Mosaica (Vistosi/Toso) or AVEM (Dino Martens). This high quality hand blown art glass vase set was certainly made by a master of the craft. Estimated circa 1920 – 1960.
The exterior décor process is called “Roll Up” or “laminated”. Colorful sheets of glass produced with kiln-fusing are rolled over the blown vessel, then attached to a blow pipe and blown again. It involves warm, hot, and cold methods all in unison. Very difficult to achieve.
The inner glass is blown cobalt blue (image 7). The laminated layer is not cased in clear as usually seen, it is the outer layer. Surface is textured. Multiple images included here due to difficulty in capturing the intense beauty of the vases. The laminate colors are blue, yellow, and copper aventurine. The laminate is wrapped over the vase openings which creates a stunning decor effect.
The vases are large and heavy. Measure 9.25 & 9.5″ tall, Weigh 3.75 lbs each. Slightly different height and shape on each is due the hand blowing process. Interesting soft form bullet shapes. Both in excellent condition with roughly ground pontil marks.
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$70.00Vintage decanter stopper extra tall in dark olive green glass.
Hand-made solid glass stopper measures 9.75″ long. Made in the U.S.A. during the Mid-Century Modern decor period (1940’s to 1970’s).
Please see image provided of the olive green baton stopper for exact measurements. It is in perfect condition.
This big mid-century modern vintage decanter stopper in olive green was made for the fabulously large decanters so popular back in the day they were produced, and still so very popular today but hard to find. Often we find the big decanter bottles without the stoppers because the stoppers are prone to break.
To determine if your stopper will fit your bottle:
Replacing missing stoppers is tricky. A good fit is essential. The measurements must match perfectly to the bottle neck opening in order to seal the air out and sit upright (without wiggling). Replaced stoppers are referred to as “married”, meaning the stopper is not original to the bottle.
- Measure the inner diameter of bottle neck opening. Use a soft tape measure to determine the width of the top opening. Measure the open space only, between the bottle neck opening. Do not include the glass rim of the bottle neck.
- The stopper’s ‘insert top’ (see image with measurements) should match the inner diameter (width) of the bottle neck opening exactly or just very slightly smaller. You can use your soft measuring tape to encircle the inner top opening to obtain the circumference.
- Most decanter bottle necks taper slightly down toward the vessel, resulting in a smaller neck measurement than the bottle neck opening. You should know the length of the insert. The insert is the portion of the stopper that enters the bottle neck opening.
- Take the measurement of the stopper’s insert length, from base to top of insert, and use your soft tape measure to determine where the stopper base will rest in your bottle neck. The stopper’s ‘insert base’ should measure exactly or just very slightly smaller than the measurement of the area of the bottle neck where it will rest when inserted.
Most stoppers made for the large decanters from the past have a ground area encircling the stopper base. These stoppers have been ‘ground to fit’ by the maker for the exact bottle they were made for. If you know how to grind glass, or know someone who does, you can have your stopper altered to fit your bottle. This can be done only with stopper inserts that are slightly larger than the bottle neck.
Trying to get a perfect ‘marriage’ between a vintage glass decanter and replacement stopper is not easy. Often, even when the measurements match up, the stopper will tend to lean or wiggle. If your decanter is for decor purposes only, and you do not plan on using it as a decanter, you can put a small blob of putty or wax on the inner neck of the bottle to stabilize the stopper.
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