C073 Millersburg HANGING CHERRIES Green Carnival Glass 10" Ice Cream Shape Bowl

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Lovely Green Carnival Glass 10" Ice Cream Shape HANGING CHERRIES Bowl with WIDE PANEL exterior by Millersburg. This lovely bowl is undamaged, but it does have staining in the iridescent layer. I've seen a lot of this staining and I believe it is an unwanted side effect of the production process, rather than the result of some post-production event.<br>MILLERSBURG GLASS COMPANY<br>1909 - 1911<br>ANTIQUE CARNIVAL ERA GLASS<br>Millersburg Glass Company<br>, named for the town of Millersburg, Ohio, was founded in 1909 by<br>John Fenton<br>who in 1907, along with his brother Frank, co-founded the Fenton Art Glass Company which introduced America to inexpensive iridized glassware produced by using an innovative process of spraying hot glass with proprietary solutions of metallic salts.<br>John Fenton<br>was a perfectionist and a better salesman than business operator. After roughly two years of production, during which a new RADIUM (oil-on-water) finish was introduced, the<br>Millersburg Glass Company<br>failed and succumbed to bankruptcy in 1911. Limited production, and the quality demanded by John Fenton, makes<br>Millersburg Carnival Glass<br>particularly desirable.<br>Millersburg<br>glass is not trademarked in any way.<br>Lovely Green Carnival Glass 10" Ice Cream Shape HANGING CHERRIES Bowl with WIDE PANEL exterior by Millersburg.<br>This lovely bowl is undamaged, but it does have staining in the iridescent layer. I've seen a lot of this staining and I believe it is an unwanted side effect of the production process, rather than the result of some post-production event.<br>CARNIVAL GLASS<br>is what we now call IRIDIZED patterned pressed glass introduced by the Fenton Art Glass Company in 1907, and produced by numerous glass makers through the 1930s. Bowls, plates, water sets (pitcher with tumblers), dresser sets (powder box, tray, pin tray, hat pin holder, cologne/perfume), table sets (sugar, creamer, butter, spooner), vases and specialty pieces were given a vivid and colorful appearance by a microscopically thin coating of metal applied as a solution of one or more metallic salts (stannous chloride [tin], iron chloride, lead chloride, et. al.) by hand-spraying the hot-from-the-mold glass. The carrying solution vaporized leaving the metallic salts to bond on a molecular level with the glass, producing a surface that reflected light in a rainbow of colors. Each salt or combination of salts produced a different color, with intensity tied to the thickness of the coating.<br>EXCELLENT UNDAMAGED ANTIQUE CONDITION<br>means that while a<br>listed<br>item has no post-production damage such as chips or cracks,<br>it may have discernible minor wear from usage and/or nesting (stacking)<br>and, since<br>production conditions<br>in the early 1900s were dirty and dangerous and there was no "Quality Control" as we now know it, any number of the following production issues:<br>Air bubbles<br>in the glass that were not squeezed out during pressing.<br>Heat checks<br>which are internal rifts filled with air (which is why you can see them), usually from a burst air bubble.<br>Inclusions<br>in or on the surface of the glass, such as ash and cinders. Often found in the flames of vases and rims of bowls were it settled during pressing.<br>Strands<br>of undissolved colorant (usually in green glass).<br>Straw marks<br>which are lines<br>in the glass caused by premature solidification where the molten glass was<br>snipped from the gathering rod with cool metal shears when the mould was full; lines also formed on the surface during the cooling process.<br>Tool marks<br>from implements used to form the edge or influence the shape.<br>Mold issues<br>related to filling and release such as incomplete or malformed edges,<br>rough seams, extra glass at seams; webbed, incomplete or pulled edge points.<br>Cooling issues<br>such as<br>uneven legs, slanted stems or a bowed base (causing rocking), surface lines and heat checks.<br>Production issues in the extreme may be undesirable, but they do not qualify as "damage" and will be found to some degree on nearly all antique glassware. Issues of MAJOR wear and production flaws will be mentioned and photographed; please check photos carefully as they are a part of the de