Ok - Open Salts Overload - can I ask for help on 9 (out of >250??)

Exhausted from this - antiques of this nature are not my forte. I got through most, but some I had questions on... Not really sure what's the best way upload 2 images with short descriptions for each on one thread?

Here are four, anyhoo: really hope that's ok - just need something specific on each so I can look up comps - I'll just upload these and take a break.

1. Boot: clear with Trade Mark H over T (or T over H) backwards on heel


2. Cobalt Flint Glass 1840 - I was quoted $300 (conservatively) but can't find comps for that statement... was told condition was not an issue bc of age



3. Clear basket with lumpy interior and granulated exterior with curved handles and polished bottom



4. Larger cool green something-something with marbled Lustre (is it even a salt?)

 

The boot is a candy container

The cobalt is 20th century - likely Hong Kong

The lump I don't know

The last looks like cheap MIJ ashtray

 

Thanks, Terry -

(FYI, anyone who responds - my ?s aren't debating, I'm genuinely curious)

Age and/or maker on candy?
Cobalt sounds like flint to me - why do you say 20th C?
What's MIJ?

 

Made in Japan......& I can still see what looks like tar marks on the indentations...

 

tar marks?
O - lol - I looked up "tar marks"
No, was some silver guilding that has worn off.

 

Stuff I thought was junk was Elfinware - so I just never know. Better to ask.

 

That don't look like silver.........but if you say so.....you have it in your hands...

 

I guess the boot is a Fenton interpretation of a vase

The two part mold for items like the cup didn't come in to use until after 1900

 

it's worn off the handles, as well...

Terry: you have good eyes!

On http://www.patternglass.com/Ask/Granny.htm I read "EAPG was made in 2, 3, & 4 section molds. "Three mold" is meaningless in determining the age of glass."

She doesn't give details on which mold started when, though.

 

#1 Boot - The H underlined used to be on Butchiedog's glass mark page. But link doesn't seem to go the page anymore.

Does anyone know how to search for archived sites?

#3 - Can be described as overshot glass.

#4 - Is European not Japan as evidenced by the numbers. Lustreware is generally early 1900s to pre WWI. (There are exceptions).
My guess would be German or Austrian.

I doubt it is a salt, possibly a toothpick, or may have had stuffing with covered velvet for pins or needles. Those are only guesses.

 

the boot is a Herman Tappan vase. Does the inscription around the top of the boot read 'Sollers Fine Shoes' with the patent date? The number of mold marks isn't an indication of age as mold requirements were dependent upon the complexity of design.

 

Tappan's 1886 design patent for a glass shoe 'Bouquet Holder' is #D17023.

#2 looks like Bryce's 'French' pattern, though I've not seen it in cobalt - can't recall seeing this salt in a modern repro, and personally see no reason that this one wouldn't be 19th century (small items, in particular were done in 2-part molds).

#3 looks to me like maybe mid 20th century European art glass, will have to look through some books...

#4 is not a salt, maybe a vase, or as suggested, a toothpick or pincushion, would also guess German.

~Cheryl

 

#2 - 6 sided cobalt plain fluted may be pictured in Heacock & Johnson's 5,000 Open Salts, A Collector's Guide, p. 49, fig. 657. I'm not 100% sure they are the same without seening the top of yours and knowing the height of yours. The sides and pedestal look the same, but the 6 sided salts have different tops. Anyways, the authors give the following description:

P. 115
"657 - Pedestalled, six sided master, origin unknown, circa 1880-85, 2 1/8" high."

--- Susan

 

that's another Tappan patent for a similar vase.

 

Thanks TallCakes

#1. For lack of a comparable, I don't know whether the Bouquet Holder is repro, or not... I couldn't find one without the base, the inscription on top reads: PATENTED.DEC.1886 with backward N, and has 12 lace lines, not 9.

#2. The person who identified it as flint said he hadn't seen a cobalt, either. Maybe that's why he estimated such a high $$? I haven't seen comp on this, either - yet.

#3. I think is pressed - very difficult to photograph, but the interior is quilted

#4. A toy vase?

 

Skeezix - He also said salts were not individual that early - it is two inches tall and close to four inches wide, corner to corner...

Not sure what you mean by pontil? the bottom is concave and shows a concentric ripple. Edge is very worn, but was polished at one time.

 

Thanks!

 

Net weight = approx. 30lb
plus 8lbs of random cobalt liners looking for holders