If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
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
Posted 6 months ago
Greatsnowy…
(119 items)
I have gotten a couple more aventurine pieces recently. One is just a very handsome straight up art nouveau piece. (1st photo) Probably Harrach. the second one isn't anywhere near as neat at first glance as the straight up art nouveau example, but on close examination it's actually much more unusual than almost all of my other pieces. It cannot be seen thru when held to strong light. it's totally opaque. you can see Green in it. It is a chrome aventurine but I think it's on a hyalith base instead of the clear base these are usually in or it's triple layered or something. It looks like black glass next to the green pieces. Most of the chrome aventurine isn't that dense by a long shot. Some of it is even quite easy to see thru.
Bohemian Art GlassBohemian art glass was made in and around the present-day Czech Republic du…
Love the whiplash curves on the gold enameled piece!
There is a green stone named adventurine as we'll. I always thought the name was very Indianna Jones. Love these!
Hope you are doing well GSOwl!