(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Cranberry glass is a delicate pinkish red glass with a golden sheen made by adding gold chloride to molten glass. Tin (stannic chloride) is sometimes added in tiny amounts, and the process is both difficult and expensive. Today’s studio glassmakers can buy their cranberry glass in rods from specialist manufacturers. [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Vaseline Glass is a form of uranium glass which is yellow-green in color. Vaseline glass is made by adding 2% uranium dioxide to the ingredients when the glass formula is made, turning the glass yellow-green. Uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, is added to a glass mix prior [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)The weathervane, a common country sight, has become highly collectible. The earliest weathervanes were handmade of wrought iron and were generally simple angular silhouettes with a small hole suggesting an eye. Later, copper, zinc, and polychromed wood with features in relief were fashioned into more realistic forms. [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Bentwood chairs have rounded pieces of wood, bent into curlicues, serving as arms, legs and stretchers. They were constructed from a variety of different woods, with the wood being soaked, steamed, molded and bent into various shapes. Bentwood pieces have been made since the early 1800s.
The bentwood [...]
Antique clocks collector will not dispose that an old-looking clock with only one hand since they comprehend that the clock is not damaged. They will comprehend that it could be a indication that are antique clocks which was made at some stage in the 16th century because the minute hand was not standard until 1775 [...]
