blueyes29
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posted on August 21, 2005 09:10:51 PM
Can anyone help identify this large amber-colored bowl? It's got a large flower (daisy?) design molded in the bottom and 3 rounded glass feet on the bottom. The bowl is about 10 1/2 inches in diameter and about 4 inches tall. I could find no marks. Thanks for any help.
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estatesalestuff
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posted on August 22, 2005 03:44:17 AM
Sorry, don't know anything about this ... maybe someone will come along that recognizes it? 
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carolinetyler
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posted on August 22, 2005 05:49:07 AM
I don't recognize it as being anything special - I would just call it a large amber footed centerpiece.
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classicrock000
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posted on August 22, 2005 06:22:26 AM
Being Im an expert in this field, I can tell you right off the bat-its a large vingtage amber bowl
The bowl is 10 inches in diameter and 4 inches tall,and theres also 3 rounded glass feet at the bottom-no need to thank me,glad I could help.
[ edited by classicrock000 on Aug 22, 2005 06:24 AM ]
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blueyes29
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posted on August 22, 2005 08:35:15 AM
Thanks all...your comments were very enlightening!  I enjoy selling vintage glass but find it very frustrating since so many of the early makers apparently didn't mark their pieces. I know "experts" must spend a lifetime learning their art and I applaud their efforts! As a consignment seller, I just don't have the time to undertake that study and do appreciate the help found on this board. In the long run (or short run), does it REALLY make that much difference to identify a piece a Westmoreland/Fenton/whatever in the listing? Or is "Vintage piece" generally enough? Thanks again...
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buyhigh
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posted on August 22, 2005 04:53:46 PM
I once owned one of these and used it as a salad bowl. I disposed of it several years ago since I no longer have a family to serve meals to and it took up too much cupboard space. Think I bought it new but do not remember when. I have other identical at swap meets a number of times just sitting there on the ground with the rest of the household "trash" being sold so I doubt they are very disirable. I gather there were many of them made. As I recall the bowl was rather heavy and might cost a good bit to ship - possibly more than the bowl is woth. Sorry I cannot remamber the date I purchased it. Maybe 1960's or 1970's.
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buyhigh
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posted on August 22, 2005 04:58:56 PM
typo - meant I have seen other identical. By the way What makes something vintage?
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sparkz
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posted on August 22, 2005 08:21:35 PM
These bowls are very much in demand in Bakersfield, California. They are used as punch bowls at trailer park potlucks. You pour a bottle of Thunderbird or Tokay in it and fill to the top with Sam's Club cherry flavored soda. Toss in a couple slices of onion, and you have a centerpiece that will add class to any shoestring budget function.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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paloma91
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posted on August 23, 2005 07:12:49 AM
I did a google search on glass Amber salad scallop footed and came up with this link as well as many others Look half way down the page. wrong color.
http://www.spglass.com/Ca-z.html
CAPRI Blue, Hazelware Division, Continental Can Company, 1960's
You might want to check further doing google searches with different word combos
Good luck
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carolinetyler
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posted on August 23, 2005 07:34:57 AM
Here's the long and the short of it - mostly long antique is:
- Could be anything ranging from a piece of furniture to art. The US government considers any item over 100 years old to be an antique, whereas most collectors use 50 years as a benchmark.
- Items that are believed to be 100 years or more old. The use of the term in itself does not guarantee that an item is in fact 100 or more years old, but instead indicates that it is a belief that the item is approximately of that age.
- Any furnishing or other object that is 100 years old or older, but loosely applied to all old furniture. Technically, it should be confined to periods ending with Sheraton's style in Europe and with Duncan Phyfe's in America.
- Traditionally an antique meant an item produces before 1840 and made by hand. Customs officials in most countires have deamed items over 100 years old to be antique and therefore duty free. It has recently come to mean any item of special value or of historical significance. To purists however the 100 year rule is still used.
- Although opinions may vary, most experts feel that all dolls made prior to the 1930s are considered to be antique. The exception to this ruleuse to be the "composition dolls," but this is slowly changing and many collectors now accept pre-1930 compositions as antique as well.
- Depending on what industry you are talking about, it could mean something that's 50 years old (as in the furniture industry) or 5 years old (as in the computer industry)
- Vintage: Vintage Items that are believed to be less than 75 years old and that are believed to be of not current manufacture.
- Collectible: While the word collectible can refer to many different things, in the Doll world a collectible is a doll that was made over 25 years ago butless than 75 years ago. Also, things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique)
My opinion is Vintage is when you need to make $10-$50 on an item - antique means $50 or more
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buyhigh
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posted on August 23, 2005 08:54:56 AM
Ok And now that I think about it, I believe I did not buy this bowl but that it was given as a Christmas present by one of my ex-inlaws. They shopped in Kmart and other such places at the time. And it was new. Think I once put spaghetti for 2 in it.
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blueyes29
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posted on August 23, 2005 10:50:56 AM
The bowl came from the estate items of the mother of a friend of mine. He has no idea where/when his mother got it. Maybe I'd be better off listing it as a "large glass bowl" instead of putting the word "vintage" in it. Thanks for all the help.
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