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strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:15:33 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline found this odd bowl sitting in my dining room. Anyone have any thoughs on its origin? Even seen anything like it? The glass is a bit weird. Like it? Hate it? Attachment (1) < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 2/7/2010 3:18:20 PM > _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com Post #: 1

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:24:29 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Here is the top, needs some cleaning. Attachment (1) _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 2

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:24:47 PM    crozet86 Posts: 684 Joined: 2/17/2004 From: Charlottesville va. / Buena Vista Va. Status: offline First thing that came to mind was a glass hat of some sort. I do like the glass as it is a different color green than ive seen in glass. _____________________________ CENTRAL VIRGINIA DIGGER EDDIE ROCKBRIDGE - ALLEGHENY ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 3

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:27:35 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Seems a lot larger than the whimsy hats but I see the resemblance. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 4

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:32:29 PM    crozet86 Posts: 684 Joined: 2/17/2004 From: Charlottesville va. / Buena Vista Va. Status: offline Are those (s) marks maybe a trademark of some kind ? _____________________________ CENTRAL VIRGINIA DIGGER EDDIE ROCKBRIDGE - ALLEGHENY ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 5

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:40:04 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: Are those (s) marks maybe a trademark of some kind ? No, I think it was just sitting on something that left the marks. Everyone please take your wildest guess. I wont be offended if you say it came out of the trash _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 6

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 3:58:20 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12197 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Wildest guess.. hmm.. fulgurite??  (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 7

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 4:00:03 PM    TJSJHART Posts: 1334 Joined: 9/10/2007 From: Arizona Status: offline it looks to small for a serving tray.. maybe a candy dish or a cereal bowl.. you got me. _____________________________ .N.R.A. LIFER (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 8

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 5:25:28 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Art glass maybe? _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to TJSJHART) Post #: 9

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 5:32:13 PM    Plumbata Posts: 1643 Joined: 12/4/2007 Status: offline 1960s-70s kiln class piece? Looks like it was a flat pane of uneven-surfaced circular colored stained glass stock placed in a kiln over a raised clay disc. The stretch marks seem to indicate it, anyway. Probably heated just enough to allow gravity to do its work but not enough to liquefy the material. It may have been at least a 2 step process, as the folding  of the melting glass would not allow for an even flattening of the outside edge, so there may have been 2 blocks of supporting discs, and once melted one disc would be removed and the hanging flange spread out on the bottom of the kiln (or cover above the heating elements) so it could assume the form it represents right now. Maybe? _____________________________ Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (in reply to TJSJHART) Post #: 10

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 6:44:02 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Very good Plumbata, you got it almost exactly right. It was my wife's first attempt (2009) with her kiln. It started out life like this.... Attachment (1) < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 2/7/2010 6:45:49 PM > _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to Plumbata) Post #: 11

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 7:00:53 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12197 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Wow, that's a melted insulator?? for real??  (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 12

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 7:14:36 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline yep thats what it is. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 13

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 7:18:09 PM    Digswithstick Posts: 2066 Joined: 3/6/2008 From: north west pa Status: offline Good mystery solving Plumbata ! Gunther that is amazing that it was once an insulator ,got to say i like the bowl much better ! _____________________________ Digswithstick (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 14

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 7:23:06 PM    Plumbata Posts: 1643 Joined: 12/4/2007 Status: offline Whoah, that is pretty crazy! I hope you both enjoy that kiln, they seem to be pretty useful depending on one's goals. So what gave the inside the opaque coloration? How hot did it need to get to achieve the final form? There is a seller trying to sell melted flat modern bottles on ebay for more than they are worth (electricity costs are probably significant though). Perhaps your wife could try making money off similar craft work? _____________________________ Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 15

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 7:29:03 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12197 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online My wife has been bugging me for a new set of tableware.. may I send you a box of insulators??  ..that's really neat.. makes me wish I was still in college ..ceramics class.. (in reply to Plumbata) Post #: 16

RE: strange bowl - 2/7/2010 7:31:29 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline The white is from the kiln wash. I dont fool with it , its something I got her for her birthday. I gave here a couple cheap insulators to melt down. They seem to melt at fairly low temperatures. She melted them into a flat plate first then drooped them over a form. This was a failed attempt First rule of glass kilns is dont be tempted to peak before the item is cool or you end up with a glass jigsaw puzzle _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to Plumbata) Post #: 17

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