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October 30th, 2010
This Northwood Good Luck Bowl certainly isn’t. However, there’s no question that carnival glass, in all its opaque iridescence, is photographically challenged, compared for example to clearer glass items like paperweights or marbles.
What do you think? Is beauty in the eye of the beholder when it comes to carnival glass? Do you think its beautiful, or ugly, or neither?
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
Va-Va-Voom Vintage: Dita Von Teese on Burlesque, Cars, and Lingerie
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Everything You Know About Corsets Is False
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Katsina or Kachina? Barry Walsh on the Spiritual Roots of Native American Dolls
Paper Wizard: Mid-Century Modern's Unsung Visionary Gets His Due
At Home with the Maharajas
Carnival Glass has a certain appeal. I have an Australian bowl with bird on the base. I have no idea what type of bird it is and cannot get a decent photograph of it. It is not the lyre bird or Kookaburra.