Uranium crystal hand blown candlesticks green & amber $15! antique Pairpoint?

[inspectorgadget]

Picked these up the same day at the same auction I got the $12.50 pallet in my other post.

Very unique hand blown crystal candlestick holders in green & amber. These ring like mad when flicked (a very high pitched ring) & contain uranium thus they also glow like mad under blacklight. They have a pattern like veins or crows feet or something with a twisted ball in the center. I would think possibly made in the 20's by Pairpoint but not sure as of yet. Nobody paid much attention to these & I got them for $15 (I would have gone to $75 without batting an eye!), they had a tiny little $150 antique mall price tag on the bottom of em but I think they might even be worth more than that. these pix are without flash


& this one with flash

 

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[war-digs-it]

Way out cool! Waiting to hear on others that know about these and what they think.

 

[inspectorgadget]

Turns out they are made by Pukeberg in the 1920's. Pukeberg is a Swedish glass company. The pattern is called Royal Fan AKA turkey tracks. & that's all I know for sure so far.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/75808-1910--1930-bi-color-vaseline-pukeberg-t

 

[gunsil]

And they aren't hand blown, they are molded, patterns in glass are molded, hand blown glass is smooth.

 

[inspectorgadget]

And they aren't hand blown, they are molded, patterns in glass are molded, hand blown glass is smooth.

Misinformation much? Do you know how wrong you are? I mean what you said can be true but it's not anywhere near close to always true! I have lots of blown glass items that are mold blown. They don't pour the glass into the mold they blow it into the mold. I can show you 100's of pieces that I own that are not smooth at all & have a pattern & they are 100% blown!

The vaseline flask I posted a week ago is hand blown (not even mold blown), has the diamond & daisy pattern with vertical ribs & thus ITS NOT SMOOTH, it's not even close to smooth as it has a pattern all over it. I just watched a video on how they pattern hand blown glass. Just so you know the pattern is pressed into the hot glass before its blown. Then while it's still hot they blow it into the shape of the item they are making & then that pressed pattern expands.

The candlesticks I posted are blown & as far as I know any glass that has one color in/on one part & another color on/in a different part such as the stem, base, bowl being different colors is only accomplished by blowing as that's impossible to do in a pour mold... Id love if you came & showed me where the mold marks are on these candle sticks but you would be wasting your time because there are no mold marks & the glass in the foot or base of these is way to thin to be from a mold!

You can also tell some twisting of the pattern went on in the top part of these as the pattern has a slight twist from being molten hot & worked with probably happened while making the twisted ball in the center. (would love to know how that could happen with molded glass? Could you explain?). Not to mention the foot/base of these would be IMPOSSIBLE to remove from a mold as they sort of curl up & inward around the inside rim underneath (hard to explain) but it's nothing that could possibly come out of a mold. Matter of fact it alone proves they are not from a mold!

This isn't my first glass rodeo! I've been collection glass for years & years now!

 

[gunsil]

I didn't say anything about being poured. To me hand blown refers to free form blowing of glass. You now say mold blown, to me that is different. I have friends who do art glass blowing and I have watched them often. I started digging bottles (thousands of them) in 1959 at age twelve. If your original post had said mold blown I wouldn't have said a peep. Sorry to get your weenie in such an uproar. Enjoy your weekend.

 

[inspectorgadget]

I didn't say anything about being poured. To me hand blown refers to free form blowing of glass. You now say mold blown, to me that is different. I have friends who do art glass blowing and I have watched them often. I started digging bottles (thousands of them) in 1959 at age twelve. If your original post had said mold blown I wouldn't have said a peep. Sorry to get your weenie in such an uproar. Enjoy your weekend.

These are NOT mold blown as I stated the bottoms could NOT have came out of a mold it would be 100% IMPOSSIBLE to get them out of a mold! I just stated there are 2 kinds of blown glass & this is the type that did NOT come out of a mold... They are made by Pukeburg, just do some research & prove me wrong & that these were molded! All pattern glass is not pressed molded glass, sure most is, but alot of it isn't!

The vaseline identification page on Facebook knew exactly what they were right away & they sure did not correct my saying that they were hand blown.

Blowing "free form" pattern glass is an art not many can do & only the best of the best can ever achieve it!

 

[diggummup]

A very nice rare set of candlesticks. Blown, lol.

 

[inspectorgadget]

I think me & gunsil have some misinterpretations about types of molded glass as there are actually 3 types of molded glass #1 is a full sized one piece blow mold "pull out molded pieces", #2 is the 2, 3 or 4 piece full sized type blow mold & #3 is the patterned dip mold which is NOT full sized. After the pattern dip mold the pieces are blown and expanded into their final form.

I personally refer to pattern dip molded pieces as free form which might not be technically correct but it is not exactly a molded piece either. Example is Stiegel bottles that were blown with the aid of pattern molds and then expanded into their final forms.

The pattern you see in these candlesticks is barely there even tho you can see it really well the actual impression is barely noticeable to the touch when you try to feel them (especially in the base part). They were aided by a pattern dip mold for sure but then they were blown to size without any mold thus is why they are not exactly identical. As far as I'm concerned you are right & I am right as pattern dip molded pieces are some what molded & somewhat free form blown, kind of a cross of the 2 art forms.