Bellflower Patterns for Flint Glass Collecting

Video Transcript

"Now that you’re thinking about choosing a pattern, lets take a look at some of the different patterns that we have on the table. The first one, which is one of my favorites is the bell-flower pattern, and this you can see, it has a bell flower that’s turned upside down with a vine that leads all the way around the piece with little flower buds. So this is the pattern with ribbing and you can find this pattern, it comes in a variety of a thick ribbing or a thin ribbing, um, you see there’s sometimes there will be a little hue, which I’m not sure you can see that on the camera but, and that has nothing to do with the, uh, the glass is a little tinted, it has to do with how it was made. It doesn’t have anything to do with being put in a window or getting too much sun. But this is a bell-flower pattern, very pretty, has elongated ribbing on the bottom and you’ll see them come in forms with three moles and you’ll also see them with two moles and you’ll see them with just a pattern here, and this has, I’m trying to see, this has three moles, and its made in the shape of an oil lamp, with the font showing the bell-flower pattern with a waffle in the base. And it’s a really pretty pattern. And I have two examples of the oil lamps right here. And then there is another shape in the bell-flower which is the tumbler, which you can see on the bottom, lots of wear and where the pontil’s been ground down and that’s what you want to look for when you’re choosing uh, pat, this, this particular pattern. And that’s the tumbler, here’s the goblet, very pretty, you’ll see these forms change, the bowls on this goblet turn in, some of them turn out, just very small, I don’t have an example of, if you’ll look in your book you’ll see the pattern that turns out, just as much as this is turning in. So you’ll see a variety of these and the stems, depending on what company made them, might be a little longer and the bulbous part here in the stem, might have a, you might see a variety of um, shapes here. Might be a little longer, a little shorter, but one mistake that some people make, is they don’t understand that this is a, this is actually an egg cup which is a little confusing to people because its very large but you can always tell because there is no elongated stem, the stem is very short, so this remember is an egg cup."