Cut glass antique pineapple stands can fetch high prices
"The
cut glass work of the 1920s and 1930s owes its design rootes to Art Deco, a legacy that continues after the Second World War into the work being produced by a new group of designers who were empowered by the hope of a new society with new beginnings.
Early English
cut glass is rare and surviving examples share a stylistic conformity that suggests they could have been the work of just a few individuals.
Because the duty related to weight, it became advantageous for heavier,
cut glass to be produced in Ireland; so although all types of glass were made there, the term 'Irish glass' came to be synonymous with
cut glass.
This collection from Matalan includes wishbone lamp pounds 30, antique column lamp pounds 30, flower lamp pounds 30,
cut glass round antique lamp pounds 45, and glamour ball lamp pounds 35.
Paul Allen, Past Branch President, received a gift of
cut glass whisky glasses and his wife Margaret received a bouquet.
Cut glass decanters are an excellent buy at auction and a couple of Stuart crystal decanters will cost you over pounds 200 in the retail shops but can be acquired for pounds 30 at auction, but check that there are no chips and that the stoppers fit properly.
Titled British Art
Cut Glass (1920-1970), the display is the work of Nigel Benson, a glass specialist and author of Miller's Glass of the '50s and '60s: A Collector's Guide.
We've all heard of china matching companies who'll help track down replacements for your favourite crockery set but did you know that a similar service exists for
cut glass and crystal?
'Modern'
cut glass probably dates from around 1680, when individual grooves began to be clear polished in Nuremberg and Potsdam (see Fig.
Look back to that time when the pace of life seemed slower and remember your grandma's collection of different glass pieces from delicately coloured
cut glass bells through to lucky bingo ducks.
Colleagues at the building society presented 62-year-old Miss Everitt with a
cut glass rose bowl, a tea cup, saucer and plate, a Border collie ornament and flowers.
