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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 704373, member: 5833&quot;]OK.&nbsp; GreyLady, BarnBeatrice &amp; BlueBeatrice are all molded.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Because I&#039;m seeing it as beneath, I&#039;m seeing GreyLady as lava glass.&nbsp; BarnBeatrice is either dripstone or lava.&nbsp; I&#039;m giving preference to dripstone because of granularity of the material &amp; probable French origin.&nbsp; BlueBeatrice I think was made with porcelain paste not worked into the mold well enough to get rid of bubbles.&nbsp; It is clearly much more fine grained material than BlueBeatrice.&nbsp; The thread-like crack is evidence:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/temp07-jpg.187368/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this one sold for such a high price because it was mistaken for turquoise; I have seen sellers of antique jewellery make the same mistake with pieces I was able to handle &amp; find not to feel like stone.&nbsp; The way it has become so very grimy all over, not just in crevices, is another hint that it is something other than stone or glass, whose smoothness gives less purchase for the grunge.</p><p><br /></p><p>The molds for BarnB &amp; BlueB may have a common ancestor, but were probably not the same mold.&nbsp; As already noted, a lot of detail missing from BB, maybe partly the result of using coarser material:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]187376[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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