Post #401410 by Howland on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 9:37 PM

There's an antique dealer not too far from here (Charleston, SC) who collects/sells a lot of antique nauticalia. I've bought a couple of glass fishing floats from him. Somewhere around basketball size for the largest and I purchased another that's maybe the size of a cantaloupe and a half that has a hole in the top that has been rigged as a swag light and served me well outdoors as a central light on my gable piece on top of my Lanai for a couple of years now. A friend told me it is an antique Japanese saki jug. 60-80$ for these things and he always has a good supply--the ones with the hole in top show up only on occasion.

Another place down the street has hundreds of the 'not-so-old-but authentic' ones (not blown glass but 2 halves seamed together) but they don't have the netting. They go for 25$, I believe. A few places around here like souvenir shops have the repros with the hemp netting for around 15-20$.

Here's a pic of the saki jug and a pic of it rigged with light fixture and hanging from my gable: