It is probably just an ornamental gourd they come in all shapes and sizes. Feel free to email me you can get my email address from my user page. By the way gardening merit badge was my favorite one to earn and I am very proud to be an Eagle Scout.

There is not enough information. We need to know and see more. Canes, thorns, growth habit, open blooms. Romantant or not, fragrance, etc. The only thing I can say that the leave in the upper right corner of the third picture shows signs of Rose Mosaic Virus (RMV). Olga

Moser is characterized by hand done enamel decoration and gilding. A much finer glass than this piece. This piece appears to me to be Bohemian, cased, cut back to cranberry with decorations in enamel and gold, but they don't appear hand done to me. There are a couple of similar lamps on ebay asking for about $40 each...last I checked. Don't confuse Moser glass, a Czech company dating from mid 19th century with Mosser glass, a fine American glass company dating almost 100 years later. Linda C

Strange, my last post was deleted even if I clearly did not break any of the rules. We cut down a lot of the dead pines (only the dead or the dying ones) and it seems that the most killing is allegedly being done by the Solar Radiation Management or geo-engineering also unpopularly known as "chemtrails" and I suspect that is what got my post deleted by just mentioning these illegal unconstitutional events. If you disagree, please just ignore this particular message.