Cranberry Hobnail with Nails...Literally

[GreenhornGirl]

I bought this because from a faraway glance (one of those auctions where you can't see much) thinking it might be a vintage Fenton Cranberry hobnail vase.  Now I'm not sure because 1) I can't find a Fenton with quite this type of rim and 2) there are no markings on it other than--and this is odd to me--two nails on the inside of the bottom of the glass (inside the glass, you can't feel them) arranged similar to an X.  I have never seen nails inside glass like this.  Anyone have any ideas on this piece?

[GreenhornGirl]

Also only the inside rim appears to be pink, not the inside itself.

[ironlord1963]

    Wow     I mean Wow       at first look I would think Fenton Hobnail, but the crimped edge looks different, I just thumb through my 3 fenton Books and nothing like it shows up.  I'm still thinking fenton, but you may even have a Piece of Hobbs, they were earlier then Fenton and did some of the orignal Hobnail pattern stuff.  I will look around a bit more, but will have to say WOW again 

[ironlord1963]

Found one site that has a similiar pattern and they are calling it fenton

http://www.anythingold.com/fenton_blue_opal_hobnail_bud_vase.html

[GreenhornGirl]

Thanks, ironlord!  I looked in my Fenton book and it looks sooooo much like the Fenton Cranberry hobnail on the body itself.  But I can't find one with this size, shape and rim.  The nails part is driving me crazy because I can't find anything about it or like it and I've got to think it must've been intentional.

[ironlord1963]

    It is a fenton for sure, found one at replacement in milk glass just like your, but not the right color.  This is a bit unusual color.

[GreenhornGirl]

Ooo that DOES look like it!  Forgot to mention I measured mine at 3 3/8" H and 2 1/8" W at the mouth.  I wonder if that one has the nails in the bottom!  1941-1955, they say.  I looked in the 1950 catalog here http://www.fentonfan.com/catalog/1950january/1950january.swf and page 4 has a very similar style but the different rim.  Looked in my whole Fenton book plus all the Fenton catalogues available online that I could find but couldn't find this exact style yet.

[bob535]

I was looking for my Hobbs book, for about 15 min now....I can't seem to find it for some reason....I found the book at a thrift store a while back, and thought....I'll get it...Now i can't find it.....but looks like it is settled that it is a Fenton??

[ironlord1963]

This one is a bit closer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/expknitter/3882182181/


And Bob I need to get a Hobbs book, I'm a bit jealous 

[bob535]

Never mind I just found the book, and it was a Hull book not Hobbs.   I am not a glass pro, but i thought....YAY i can finally make that book useful...but it is Hull...sorry  

[bob535]

.....and Hull is pottery not glass.....so i was way off  

If this book were a Hobbs book I'd give it to you...it does nothing for me, and I try to steer clear of glass. Meaning i wont buy anymore of it. I have plenty, but I always stress when shipping it, hoping it gets to its destination safely....

[ironlord1963]

    That's O.k. I don't have a Hull book either, I know who to come to when I have a Hull question.

[bob535]

Yeah man i'll let you know what i can about it 

[GreenhornGirl]

LOLOL Bob!  Thanks so much anyways    That one does look so similar, ironlord.  Do you have a link for the one you found at replacements.com?  I have no idea how you did that so fast, I got like 430 results.  I can't get over the nails in the bottom...I asked my parents' opinions, and one of them said "maybe it was a mistake."  So of course me I'm like "THERE ARE NO MISTAKES!"    I like replacements.com because they often have the pattern names for pottery & china and the dates and whether or not they're discontinued.

[ironlord1963]

     I find the best way to search replacement is to type in the search box.  I put in Hobnail glass and just started looking.  Also Google images is really good about that just type in Hobnail glass, and once I established it to be fenton I retyped in Fenton Hobnail Glass.