Depression or Vaseline Glass Serving Bowl - Swirling Lines ID PLEASE

Depression or Vaseline Glass Serving Bowl - Swirling Lines ID PLEASE

I have been at this for hours and can't find out anything about this bowl. It measures about 10 1/2" across X 3 1/2" tall.

Thank you for any info!

 

Hi,
Could we please see it without the black light?
Thanks,
greg

 

I have seen this type of glass in the past week, problem is I browse for glass items most days, I think it's 1930s glass, it has a pattern name, probably American, a console bowl. Maker? I have to go back and find it. Or one of the American glass experts might know right off.

 

Just because it glows green does not make it Vaseline glass.

As greg said we need to see it in regular light, not black light.

 

Yes, I should have sent another photo. I thought it was so pretty under the black light!

 

Thank you so much. I sure do appreciate all of the responses. Maybe this will help.

 

This is not Vaseline glass. Some people call it Uranium Glass. It is made with uranium hence the glow under the black light.

It does look like 1930s -40s glass, but I think it might be German and not American. I don't recognize the pattern or ever having seen it.

 

Hi,
It is uranium glass. There is the old saying "IF it is green it is NOT vaseline". Vaseline glass is a greenish yellow. I have heard people say there is blue vaseline,brown vaseline and clear vaseline. When vaseline was first invented, it was called Canary glass. Since then there has been many different colors that have used radioactive substances that cause them to "glow" under black light. I do not think your bowl is American. In 70 years of collecting, I have never seen your piece before as American.
greg

 

From what I have found most 'uranium' glass can also be called 'vaseline' glass. For the purist and glass collector, the terms are for specific glass pieces, for the general public they are not. This happens often with other types of antique and vintage decorative pieces, where terms are used in some instance by some people but not all.

See these links for two recent large reference books which mix the two types together under the word 'vaseline' glass, and these are on a page for 'uranium' glass identification.....lol.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...p=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=076431257X

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...p=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0764314742

 

Hi,
That is like me calling my plastic leaded shade, Tiffany. That is why there is sooooooo much confusion on the internet. People just call it what THEY think it is. It does not make it so. As long as people think it is alright to call uranium glass vaseline it leads to mass confusion. Now I will get off my soap box and crawl back to my cave, grumbling.
greg

 

@gregsglass
One of those things you can do nothing about.... Many of us collectors have all kinds of gripes about the whole range of misuse of terms, inaccurate identifications, and so on and so on.
Some of us with more energy go around and try to supply proper terms and accurate information about these specific items. Makes no difference. In fact it's getting worse.
I respected the originator of this tread with the 'vaseline' term used because it was not totally wrong, glass from different countries use different words as well. For Bohemian glass we don't use either uranium or vaseline, we usually say UV reactive.

 

Room for another person? LOL

 

Sure...what's youre take on this?

 

It would be nice if we knew what the manufacturer called it. The yellow UV reactive glass we so blithely call Vaseline was called (in English) canary until Fenton started making it in 1927 when they called it Vaseline.
When first manufactured in Europe, the 'inventor' of it named the yellow version after his wife, Anna, annagelb (Anna's yellow or gold) and the green version annagrün, Anna's green.

 

Thank-you for the information cherryhill, I didn't know that.

 

It's statements and beliefs like this that perpetuate misinformation.
We're not necessarily purists.
We just know what is right and wrong.

 

@clutteredcloset49
We, meaning people that agree with you, which does not mean you are all right or all wrong. What I was trying to convey is that there are endless discussions about this, with no resolution, because everyone hangs on to their opinion.
If a group believes one term is correct, and another group believes another term is correct, these groups often separated by an ocean..... Then what does it matter? You can't control other people and what they say and do.
Especially today, the recent book links I provided is a great example of what I am saying, they believed they had the title right, of course. You say no. That is fine with me and with them, I would guess.

 

The pattern looks like it might be called coral or seaweed.

 

The English language changes with usage. Just like the makers of Saran Wrap started many people using that term. Not to use a pun, but the term "Saran Wrap" just kind of "stuck" and people kept using the name after new plastic wraps were introduced (with different manufacturer names). Thank you for all of the info...I have learned so much. I will ID this by the term Uranium Glass from now on. If it's green, it's not Vaseline...good way to remember that!