Stoddard? Ha!

[nhpharm]

Don't you love it when out of the blue someone contacts you to ask your opinion, and when your opinion isn't what they want to hear, they just ignore it. Case in point: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-STODDARD-GLASS-BLOWN-PONTIL-WHIMSEY-VASE-1842-1873-/261548006001?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ce579da71

 

[goodman1966]

Let me guess.... You said not Stoddard when he asked you ! Glad he didn't ask me, I would have said modern and Mexican ! Mitch

P.S. I'm no expert, but really.......

 

[nhpharm]

Yep...I said modern and probably Mexican...He got it at a flea market in Texas...

 

[saratogadriver]

Yep...I said modern and probably Mexican...He got it at a flea market in Texas...

He should have left it there. It's not worth whatever he paid for it. Modern, Mexican, and very awkward. Not a pretty piece... Jim G

 

[RED Matthews]

So what is new!! I marvel at the efforts of glass companies (mostly foreign) that put their efforts into making repro items that should be recognisablle to the buyer, It is a form of fraud. I bought a neat figural green glass - bunch of grapes, with a stopper, at the Central New York Windmill Village, for $6.oo Saturday. It is a beauty, about 14" tall, and I cant find the mold seams. Because of the size of the berries, it would have to have been a 4=part mold to release open without marking the glass with the sweep of the forms. i think it is a bargan, even though I don't know how the hell they made it. RED Matthews

 

[nhpharm]

Yeah...for sure! Sometimes I think that it is a waste of my time to even respond to these people but I always hope that they will walk away a little more educated...it is disappointing when they just ignore what you tell them!

 

[cowseatmaize]

"it is like reddish amber"Clearly not Stoddard. Everyone knows reddish amber is all made at Westford CT. []

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I like it! For about $2.50. What's a Stoddard?

 

[nhpharm]

Stoddard, New Hampshire had a couple of glassworks and their stuff is highly collectible...which means that everything (including Mexican crap like this) that is amber and bubbly is magically Stoddard glass. Of course if you live in Connecticut, the same stuff that is Stoddard in New Hampshire is Westford or Willington.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I don't get how prices go up so much. I understand the law of supply and demand, but that much for such a small, plain vase even if it were one?