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Matching bottles to raw minerals

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« Reply #60 on: August 02, 2015, 07:45:19 am »


     I could be wrong, but I'd date that beautiful Aventurine bottle to the period 1950-1995 (or at least to 6 months before you know it came on the market, whichever is later).


Dear Joey,
     Aren't you saying the same thing as me ......'mid to late 20th century'?
Since when I bought it in 1996 it wasn't still warm from the workshop, 1950-1995 is spot on!


Dear YT,
     I understand that Goldstone IS a natural mineral, from the feldspar family. You often see it used for stoppers.

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« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2015, 08:27:26 am »

Dear Tom,

I read this from Wiki, "Goldstone is a type of glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere. The finished product can take a smooth polish and be carved into beads, figurines, or other artifacts suitable for semiprecious stone, and in fact goldstone is often mistaken for or misrepresented as a natural material."

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« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2015, 08:50:34 am »

Dear YT,

Thanks for the information. I had thought, mistakenly, that the name applied to both glass AND a natural stone.

So those cabochons seen used on snuff bottle stoppers are all made of glass.

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« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2015, 09:08:43 am »

Dear Tom,

I am happy to share.
It is precisely your post that made me read up on Aventurines.
Information that I can linked to a recent purchased Aventurine GLass Overlay.

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« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2015, 10:29:42 am »

Dear YT & Tom,
 
    I always assumed that 'goldstone' was a glass, because I read that it was brought in bricks from Bohemia by the Jesuit glass makers in the 17th C., to the Kangxi Court, and I figured that they could not get minerals to meld with the glass as in the glass snuff bottles with goldstone inclusions ( See #4 &  8 in my 1987 catalogue).

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