I love these Victorian Green
Glass Dumps. They look fabulous on a window, or under a light, and everyone is
different! The two illustrated are raindrop dumps, generally the others found are
flowers in pots, anything up to 12 or 13 flowers (small and large). The dumps were
mostly made by the workmen at the 
end of the
working day, and so come under the general term of 'friggers' (lovely word!). They
come in all sorts of sizes, from tiny flat bits of green glass up to very heavy and large
ones which would have stood in the fireplace. Some of them were used as decorative
finials to staircases.
These particular ones have been expertly illustrated by my godson, Tom Marshall, who is a silversmith - also down in Burford. His family are world renowned experts on Glass Paperweights, to view their exclusive hand-made silver and early paperweights contact The Stone Gallery.
Cranberry Glass always looks well, whether on the window or in a lighted cabinet. I used to stock quite a lot, but there is a lot of modern stuff about, and it's quite difficult to find the real McCoy!
Sometimes I get some unusal glass, like this heater lamp, also pictured in my
cabinet at Burford. I was glad not to have to carry this one around to fairs.
A lot of 'Art' glass is making good money at auctions. It is the sort of thing
everyone likes, but no-one really knows too much about it. I can see I shall have to
get studying!
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