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Glass whatzit? - 2/27/2005 1:13:19 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 614 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline This glass piece was dug up in an old hotel dump in NH. I guess it would be called a nailsea type pattern. Appears solid and ruby red inside. Not round enough for a marble. I have been using it for a paperweight. Curious if anyone has any ideas what it was at one time. maybe just a so-called whimsy. Pretty glass in any case. Cliff Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Glass whatzit? - 2/27/2005 1:15:16 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 614 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Another view Attachment (1) (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 2

RE: Glass whatzit? - 2/27/2005 6:18:19 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Are you sure it's not a marble that didn't make it? Is the bottom rounded or flat? If flat, it may be a glass blower's end of day whimsey piece. It's gorgeous whatever it is. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 3

RE: Glass whatzit? - 2/27/2005 7:52:07 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 614 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Bottom is rounded too, it is just too oval to make it as a marble. Still makes a good paperweight if nothing else. Pretty heavy being solid. Might have been a gather that got away before the glass blower managed to get it blown,the other side is just solid red color. Who knows? < Message edited by Ye Olde Prospector -- 2/27/2005 8:13:49 PM > (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 4

RE: Glass whatzit? - 2/27/2005 8:42:39 PM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline It may well have have been made as a paperweight, it's a great piece of glass whatever it is . (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 5

RE: Glass whatzit? - 1/28/2008 8:20:26 PM    thechief   Posts: 2 Joined: 1/28/2008 From: nj Status: offline ive gotta a couple of them but they are aqua with white. I think its just waste glass thats been sheared from whatever they were making . (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 6

RE: Glass whatzit? - 1/28/2008 9:09:49 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 920 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline I like it!  How's the digging up there?  I would have liked to dig the Wentworth.  I liked the way it looked better before they restored it.  (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 7

RE: Glass whatzit? - 1/29/2008 5:43:25 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3322 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Yea thats one cool looking piece of glass _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 8

RE: Glass whatzit? - 1/29/2008 1:11:51 PM    saphireblue Posts: 179 Joined: 1/24/2008 From: Pennsylvania Status: offline The design is to fancy to be excess glass.  This was made for something.  I have no idea what it is though.  Its really cool looking though.  Look up history of the hotel you dug at you might come across it.  It might be something associated with the hotel. _____________________________ what you dig is what you find. (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 9

RE: Glass whatzit? - 2/3/2008 1:26:06 AM    KentOhio   Posts: 710 Joined: 9/13/2004 Status: offline It is actually extra glass that was cut off the bottom of something being blown. That's how they get the loop design so neat and tight at the bottom. Normally it would be thrown out but it was just too pretty, so someone kept it. When I or my friends are blowing glass I take the same things home sometimes. (in reply to saphireblue) Post #: 10

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