Steph

Eurobursts!

So glad, Rich! *slaps Scott with fish* ;-p

I don't know what to call them either! Could they be "striped transparents"? That's why I used that weird word in my other thread.

Sheesh. I missed the guinea box the first time I opened this page. How did that happen?

A hunka hunka bowling love.

What Bob said! Thank you for serving.

I see someone riding west on a bicycle.

Have heard only good things about him. Glad Edna got to spend some time with him in the last few months. Prayers and condolences for his family.

Back in the 1800's or early 1900's some of what we call oxblood now would likely have been called other things based on the up close and personal knowledge which people of that era had with the blood of various animals. The French name for oxblood ceramic glaze was "sang de boeuf". Other glaze names were sang de poulet and sang de pigeon (chicken blood and pigeon blood). And then there were less gory names like peach bloom, crushed strawberry, crimson and liver. I looked those up a long time ago and don't remember my sources now but I think those names were all given to different copper-based colors --- the spectrum of what we now might lump under the name oxblood.

Yay team! Good job!

Congrats on achieving the impossible! Thanks for the eye candy.

If you use "My Media" at the top of the reply window, you can get to your gallery and post your pictures. Here are the two new ones though:

Hi. I looked on my list of names of contemporary marble artists and saw some with initials BS. I don't have many middle initials. I'll bring the BS's over if no one else seems to have an answer. Would it be possible to get a picture?

That first one is so pretty in the first view I wouldn't want anyone to touch it! Unless ... could it be polished? It's like a fan or peacock feathers. Love it.

Pretty!

Sorry, I don't know all the technical lingo. Mike, what's the largest you have in the striped ones?

Well, not sure what to say, but I can bump the thread for you.

Got it! Thanks. I agree the pictured ones are glass. I think the ones in the 1925 ad I linked to could be natural onyx. The ones in the 1926 ads would be glass.

That 1926 ad mentions Ford but isn't quite clear about why. This ad makes the Ford connection more clear: http://www.ebay.com/itm/290513980459 What exactly do you mean by "after market". If a Ford dealer installed it after it arrived from the factory, is that "after market"? I do remember seeing ads in newspapers so people could get them at stores and not just from dealerships -- at least I'm pretty sure the ads were for department stores or hardware stores or something and not dealerships.

Well, I may still keep looking but Globe sounds right for the name I saw the most back when I was looking for info about stone radiator caps. Note the "Crystal-Onyx" name ... which frustrated stone onxy sellers and led to a case before the FTC. A 1926 ad for a Globe Specialty Co. cap which has the winged wheel on it like the ones you showed above: http://www.ebay.com/itm/300503465116

The only company I specifically know of actually made them out of stone -- the California Onyx Co. .... aka the California Agate Co. I take that back. I'm pretty sure I do remember seeing listings for a company which made them out of glass -- or at least distributed them. I just wasn't paying that much attention because I was interested in the stone ones. I'll see if I can find that company's name. In the meantime, here is a 1925 ad featuring an onyx radiator cap. http://www.ebay.com/itm/290658930288

Looks like someone convinced him it was a terribly banged up marble, as opposed to cullet. It's turning my head inside out to try to see how that was a real marble. But anyway, the auction ended early.

I posted the ones from Facebook -- maybe Facebook downsized them first. lol ... if that's what happened, that means you can use Facebook as a downsizer program. Upload to there and then download 'em and post 'em here.

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