Decades of Glass

26/11/2025

19/11/2025

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Thomas Webb & Sons Queens Burmese Glass Top Hat Posy Vase c.1890
The most important and distinctive characteristic of Burmese is that it’s transitions in colour occur in a single body of glass. It is characterised as an opaque, single layered glass, which shades from a pale greenish yellow to a deep salmon pink. The mixture used to make the glass is initially yellow in colour & contained uranium. The glassmakers were then able to alter the colour by re-heating the mixture. Areas of a vessel, which were exposed to this re-heating, develop a distinctive pink hue. The development of this colouration could therefore be determined by the amount of re-heating the glass was exposed to.

17/07/2022

We are support Brixham Pirate Festival who once a year turn our little fishing town into a buzzing festival of pirates, providing great FREE fun for local families & visitors alike, while supporting the town. Please help with a small donation

Ahoy, I be Fishbone Freddie, with the 'elp o' me new crew I be lookin' to raise funds fer Br… Fishbone Freddie needs your support for Brixham Pirate Festival

16/10/2021

08/12/2018

Decades of Antiques
Christmas Opening Hours
We will be closing for our Christmas break at 4pm on Saturday 22nd December & reopening at 10am on Wednesday 2nd January

21/11/2018

Getting ready for Newton Abbot Racecourse Fair This Saturday 24th November

02/11/2018

Come & see some of our lovely glass on our stall this Sunday

Plymouth Antique and Collector's Fair is being held at the Guildhall in Plymouth with over 40 stalls and a wide assortment of antiques and traders.

19/06/2018

Expansion Complete Celebration

26/05/2018

Decades of Antiques will be closed this Bank Holiday Monday