Glass biscuit box i know, but how many colours have you seen this in !!!

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Glass biscuit box i know, but how many colours have you seen this in !!!

Post by keramark on Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:30 pm

Personally i have seen this box in 3 different colours, how many more are they and which colour is rare !!!. I have seen a clear one, a green one, and this one has a hint of very pale blue to it.

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Post by skay on Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:19 pm

What is it that the man is holding?

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Post by keramark on Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:27 pm

It's a lady, and it's called a Pandora Biscuit Box. The figure is on all four sides and i believe it's a book she is holding. . . Pondering

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Post by skay on Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:37 pm

Oops Happy not my forte. She's been 'working out' I bet.

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Post by fuzzyedges on Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:14 pm

You can add amber and uranium (unless you class that as green) to this Sowerby barrel

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Post by keramark on Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:46 am

Uranium Green yes, thank you fuzzyedges .. Happy

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Post by Potty Primate on Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:22 pm

I'd like to see a uranium one under U.V. lights, I'll bet it's stunning.
If you've seen them in green, this very pale blue, and clear, I'd assume there'd also be an amber and 'sapphire' blue, and possibly a non-uranium 'emerald' green too.

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Post by fuzzyedges on Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:10 pm

There is possably a pink as this was a popular colour used by Sowerby
The clear is known as flint
The pattern is 2544

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Post by Potty Primate on Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:10 pm

Which clear one's called flint, fuzzyedges, the one in keramark's photo or the uncoloured clear? I only ask because I'd have said that the one in the photo has a flinty hue.

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Post by fuzzyedges on Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:25 pm

Sowerby's never refer to clear or uncoloured always to flint in there catalogues
Photos are so deceiving Uranium is nearly always shown with a uv light in pictures whilst in reality they always look draber plus there are colour variations in the the colours dependant on the additives mix

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Post by Potty Primate on Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:41 pm

Cheers fuzzyedges Excellent
So would the box above be called flint as well as one with less colour in the mix, or is it one of their 'intentional' colourways with its own name?
Please forgive the inquisition, but I love to learn new things, even at my age Cheeky

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Post by fuzzyedges on Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:52 pm

I can stand a correction but as far as I know all the clear products were called flint
http://www.pressedintime.com/Colours.htm
Explains better than me

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Post by Potty Primate on Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:00 pm

Brilliant, thank you. Excellent I'm fascinated by the art (alchemy?) of glass-making. Just the fact that glass is actually a super-cooled liquid I find amazing.

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Post by fuzzyedges on Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:03 pm

even better when you think of it as sand

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Post by Potty Primate on Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:13 pm

And that it can arrive ready-made in meteorites and from volcanoes.
Plus, of course, it is one of the very rare early discoveries that China can't lay claim to Big Laughter Chinese

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