Friday, February 12

Show and Tell Friday

Each week I search fleamarkets and thrift shops for vintage items to sell in my Etsy shop. Last Saturday when the boys and I went to the fleamarkets, I made a great find...a real treasure so to speak.

This is a Lorraine glass bird that is shaped to form a bowl. Lorraine Glass Industries made these and other beautiful glass birds in Montreal, Canada between 1962 and 1974. You don't see them often anymore. This bird is very heavy. It weighs approximately 2.5 lbs. It is quite large at 7.75 inches x 7.5 inches. The reason this bird is so special is because it has three colors of glass...green, blue and clear. Most of Lorraine's birds had only a clear comb, beak and base and one other color. A popular color was light blue and another was amber.

Other finds this week included a Norman Rockwell print from 1972, a bunny bank in the form of a tea pot, a lovely Sutherland bone china trinket tray and a cut glass trinket tray.

If you would like to see other's Show and Tell, please visit Cindy at My Romantic Home.

15 comments:

  1. Gorgeous glass bird!!~ I love your header and background too, very cool!!~

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  2. That was a great find. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Beautiful find! I think its absolutely gorgeous!

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  4. Hi Mary, you find the coolest items.. I love the colors of this bird bowl... what food plan are you doing to lose your weight??? You are doing great..have a good day. Hugs, Baba

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  5. Beautiful find! Congratulations on your weight loss, Mary. You are doing a great job! hugs,Tina

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  6. Wow, another l.8 lbs lost. You go girl. That is a rather pretty glass bird. Peace

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  7. Beautiful piece! The little butterfly is going the right direction - appropriate choice - in the plan I'm on, we talk about the butterfly emerging from our caterpillar bodies!

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  8. Mary, it is so beautiful! I do love the colors...green and blue. Just beautiful.

    Hope your Friday's been terrific. We just got back from going to a movie. It really was a "B" movie, but I just had to get out of the house with all the gloom and gray. When we got out of the movie it was sunny!!! Yay!!!

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  9. That is really a find. What beautiful colors!
    I'm impressed with your weight loss too - good job!

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  10. very pretty. Don't you just love Etsy! I'm on my way over to check out your other goodies. Have a good weekend and keep warm...jj

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  11. that bird looks kinda familiar....gonna have to think about where I've seen something like it before.....I don't know, but it smells musty. (don't ask, just go with it)

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