Featured Klondike and Amberette

Okay I just got these 2 tots unpacked but there are a couple of piece in their I don't recognize.






There are a few pieces of this one below in there not sure what pattern is on that one.

 

tots / totes that what I get for trying to type without glasses on and very tired.

 

I thought it was like a tot of gin.

 

Oh and this one

 

LOL

 

That looks a lot like Daisy & Button, so maybe Daisy & Button with Panels or something like that?

I have no expertise here, just inherited a lot of Daisy & Button.

 

A large percentage of your wares, the ones with Panels between the Daisy & Button, is Geo. Duncan and Sons' Elrose. Introduced in March 1885.
I believe your third picture is "Big Button". You ought to be able to look that up.

The square ones are Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton's Klondike, OMN NO. 75 with Amberette decoration.

 

Not having a clue myself, I'm certainly impressed. All you folks who can recognize patterns, when so many look so much alike to me that I can barely tell them apart, blow me away.

 

Ditto, I have a really hard time with mostly clear glass items. They just don't click in my brain.
I take my hat off (if I was wearing one) to all those here who know their stuff.

 

Thank you Big Button is correct

 

Always wondered what my junk bowl was. Now I know it is a Dalzell,Gilmore & Leighton-Klondike pattern bowl made 120 years ago

 

LOL yep that's what it is you have got yourself a pretty nice junk bowl. I caught my aunt using a beautiful Rookwood vase has her pencil holder once.

 

I'm going to take the opportunity to get some guidance myself on the right search terms to use. Years ago, in a charity shop, I bought a glass lidded bowl with feet & installed it on top of my dresser, where it holds mostly watches, some small keys. When I'd had it for a while, I stumbled into one like it, except different color, that sold on eBay for a ridiculous price. I was of course all excited, & since listing gave name of maker, I set off to see if I could find one like mine. I look from time to time, but never have. Have never seen another one sell for so much either.

It is Portieux Vallerysthal's turtle (really a tortoise) with a snail on its back as a knob. They are easy to find, mostly in blue, mostly in milk glass. Mine is colorless & frosted. It's a mass produced item; doesn't make any sense that there aren't any others out there & at least one of them for sale. The terms I know to use are in this paragraph. Am I overlooking a descriptor when it comes to the color/finish?

 

Maybe the same reason the other one you saw went for a ridiculous price was the color. All though a lot of items may be mass produced that doesn't necessarily it was in that particular color. Maybe that why yours is hard to find. I am not sure about this company but a lot of other glass companies used the left over glass to make smaller items instead of wasting it. I would do more research into the company and see what they specialize in.

 

VP had it as pattern #3805 oval butter dish in their 1907 catalog. The glass you describe could be either frosted or satin glass.

https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Vall...c5MDcmcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9MTg5JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html

 

Okay I just looked and they only used frosted glass on a few specialty pieces, I think that's why you can't find turtles like your out there, Although I could be wrong.

 

I supposed so, before I had done any looking. It was blue milk glass.

I had found that in my poking around too, sometime in the past. Was surprised to see it listed as a butter dish since today they are listed as covered/lidded candy/bonbon dishes. The design has a venerable history. Thanks for finding it again, not sure I bookmarked it at the time.

 

Looks like most of the time they used the frosted glass on usually whimsical pieces.

https://www.google.com/search?q=por...2PrdAhVwmeAKHWLMDxoQ_AUIDygC&biw=1920&bih=900

 

That's interesting. I know that when I look for colorless frosted I find surprisingly little stuff. Do you have a reference? Or is this a real live book, not the 'net? Does it explain in what sense 'specialty', as in only for certain stores or...?