Posted 8 months ago
Greatsnowy…
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I like to move my mantle display around every few years. It was Oxblood, cream and basalt glass from the 1850's-1890's but I didn't really like having glass that old above a fire place that is actually used in winter so I decided to move in some slightly younger glass 1890's-1920. I tried a few combinations. Light glass gets washed out up there.. dark iridescent glass is turned into just dark glass with no iridescence plainly showing.. So I ended up settling on this green display! Not sure why people dis on the green so much. It's always been one of my favorite colors. I've heard hte mantra of it was cheap to produce.. but I kind of think that more refers to bottle green rather than the nice forest, Chrome or maigrun. It's hard to tell from this pic but a good portion of this display is aventurin.
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Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles



Looks fantastic. Love the greens!
The green room leads onto the iridescent room?
Wonderful!
Thanks for showing us the displays!