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Can anyone give me reference information or online websites that explain how to
tell the vintage German and Czech blown glass ornaments apart from the new
ones? How about a Radko glass ornament for Christmas? |
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-ones I've never had any trouble telling them apart. Look at any of the
high-priced Radko ornaments, for example. The colors are bright and brassy.
Ugh. Too perfect for me. Here is a scanner-bed full of old ornaments I yanked from my collection
this morning: http://www.diadem.com/gifs/september/ornaments.jpg The snowman's missing the back of his head (mob hit, maybe?). Part of the
charm of the old ornaments is that as they've aged, in places they've
become transparent. That parakeet ornament (with the cap that isn't
original, BTW) is like that, very pale pastels. One quick way to determine relative age is that if the cap looks like it
belongs to the ornament and the hanging loop is dull grey (lead), then
it's an older ornament. -Reyne, the new ones I've seen have larger diameter
metal caps, the newer colors seem to be "softened" and
most often pearly. The new "pickle" ornaments are
pearly-green, while the old ones I've seen are truer-green
and not pearly.
http://www.jablonex.cz/christms.htm (Note: look at cap sizes, may be small!) No images here, just descriptions:
http://offthedeepend.com/flamin10p.htm
Other:
http://www.oingo.com/topic/246/246349.html
http://www.bohemiancrystal.com/page52.htm I don't see any comparison pages, but these pretty
much show what I tried to describe. -I do know that the old colored , German & Czech ornaments had lead in them
and will glow. The ones being marketed today , do not. If I come up with any
more information, I'll pass it along. |
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