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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Very old green glass vase.

« on: March 06, 2012, 12:23:57 pm »

Thank you wendy177, I will reach out to Sotheby’s and see what I can find out.  I looked them up and it seems fairly easy to work with them.  I will be sure to post any information I can find.


Mart, the cherub only appears ones on the vase.   I will look at it again when I get home and I do have other pictures showing all the sides and more details of the paint.  I will post them later today also.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Pitcher and Wash Basin

« on: March 05, 2012, 11:53:40 pm »

The pattern and style looks very similar to many of the stonewear items we have sitting in our second home in PA.  If that is the case it could have been made in West Germany and the rocking horse would be a lion.   

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Very old green glass vase.

« on: March 05, 2012, 11:17:14 pm »

Sorry for the late response, I was traveling for a while.

This vase does have lots of bubbles and some impurities imbedded in the glass.  Sadly both my mother and grandmother who would know more of its origin have passed away.  I was able to talk to my mom’s brother-in-law in Germany last week.  The only thing he can remember is a conversation of this being at least over 300 years old.  With European history that’s possible I guess.  But I don’t know anything about glass. I don’t have a black light to test the glass for Uranium Dioxide.  Maybe I’ll try to pick one up.  My grandmother lived in Merching Germany located in Aichach-Friedberg Bavaria for most of her life.  Beyond that it gets a little dark and she seldom talked about her childhood.  I know she was sold as a child slave to some farmers from age 8 to 17.  But she never talked about that.  She of course hated her parents and never ever talked about them.  But the vase did pass down from her parents who also lived in the same area.  So that dates it back before 1910 when my grandmother was born.  This is all the information we could get.  

If anyone else has some suggestions it would be appreciated.

Thank you,
      

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Antique Questions Forum / Very old green glass vase.

« on: February 17, 2012, 01:21:50 am »

Hi everyone!  I’m new here and was hoping someone would be able to help me identify this vase.  I has been passed through the family for years and the only thing I know for sure is that it was passed to my mom from her mom in Germany.  The writing looks to be old German.  Does anyone recognize the makers mark and also the possible time period it would have been made?  The vase stands about 9" tall.

Thanks,