ANTIQUE Lemonade set MARY GREGORY VICTORIAN Pitcher & 3 Glasses BOHEMIAN VG!

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ANTIQUE Lemonade set MARY GREGORY Pitcher & 3 Glasses BOHEMIAN
The photos are a part of the description. Please hover over or click on each photo so you see it in magnified format. They show important details of the conditions.
According to a glass expert I spoke with, this is magnesium glass which was only used until about 1915 and was the best quality of the times.
The glass is
extremely fine and thin
. I took pictures with different colored backgrounds so you can see the beautiful colors of green and raspberry that were worked through the pieces. Following are some excerpts from my research on these pieces:
"One of the problems, since this glass has been produced for many years, is telling the age of the pieces.
If you're looking for only the older items decorated around 1900, then assessing the weight of the glass will be a telling clue.
In general, the older pieces will have a lighter feel since they were mouth blown into a mold rather than being machine molded.”
antiques.about.com "Unraveling the Myth of Mary Gregory: Recognizing and Valuing Older 'Mary Gregory' Glass"
"3. 10 and 12 sided glass (as opposed to perfectly round) is generally pre-war.
5. Gold trim should show logical and natural wear. Glass with shiny, "good as new" trim is probably new
The oldest and finest decorations were previously done over a period of several days. Usually the entire figure would be painted and allowed to dry. Details were then added to the piece and it was fired with all the white-on-white lines flowing together. In many pieces, small details called points would be added and the piece fired a second time. These points stand out vividly even though the decoration is entirely white-on-white."
realorrepro: Your Online Source for Identifying Fakes and Reproductions
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ld Mary Gregory glass is often in the characteristic Victorian colours of cranberry, or bottle green... or clear. The quality of the painting is often higher than modern versions, with "double fired" highlights on key features and around the edges of the clothing. The quality of the glass may be thinner and poorer than some of today's Mary Gregory glass, and it is almost always mouth blown. There is rarely any colour other than white in the painting..
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glassencyclopedia.com/marygregoryglass.html
We do our best to describe what we sell accurately though we are by no means experts. Please read the note below and check out the pictures.
***There are bubbles in the glass, natural in hand-blown glass. The neck of the pitcher has a rough spot where it looks like a bubble may have popped open while creating it. Wear & tear: The glasses and pitcher have hand-painted gold rims. The gold on the sides is worn, but you can see signs of it on the sides and clearly on the top edges. The pieces need to be cleaned of fingerprint smudges. The girl on the pitcher has a smear on her face, shown in a close-up shot.
DIMENSIONS OF PITCHER
Height:                      9¾” to top of handle
Width incl handle:    8”
Diameter Bottom:     3-3/4”
DIMENSIONS OF 3 GLASSES
Height:                       3-3/4”
Top Diameter:             2-3/4”
Bottom Diameter:       2-3/8”
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it's because eBay has "hidden" some options based on zip codes and cost differences. In that event, please contact us for the price. We can calculate it for you once we know your zip code.) ***WE HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF PROBLEMS WITH DELAYED PACKAGES GOING BY GROUND. ACCORDING TO THE POST OFFICE, THEY ARE SHORT STAFFED DUE TO CURRENT CONDITIONS AND GROUND PACKAGES ARE SOME OF THE LAST ONES PUT ON A TRUCK. THE POST OFFICE WAS VERY GOOD ABOUT FOLLOWING UP ON OUR INQUIRY AS TO THEIR WHEREABOUTS. THE PACKAGES EVENTUALLY ALL ARRIVED IN GOOD CONDITION SO IF YOU DON'T MIND THE EXTRA WAIT, YOU MAY BE OKAY SHIPPING RETAIL GROUND IF YOU WISH,
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