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Tyre shaped decanter
Frank:
Has anyone come across one of these on their travels, with or without lettering?
krsilber:
I know a couple American companies made similarly shaped decanters, but that's probably not very helpful.
Ivo:
Baccarat has been making something very similar for Rémy Martin and I am almost certain it is a Chevalier design which goes back to the twenties or thirties. There are many variants - or it could be "inspired".
Bernard C:
Frank — Don't eliminate the possibility of a British manufacturer. Only last week I was shown a heavy mould-blown horseshoe-shaped decanter that had escaped from the depths of a Royal Brierley / S&W stock room on their closure. Obviously superficially quite different, but it could have been the same brain behind it.
Note "TYRED", not "TIRED" — the play on words wouldn't have worked in the USA, or would it?
Bernard C. 8)
Frank:
Sorry forgot to include the maker :-[ Stevens & Williams.
It is in the catalogue I am adding to the web-site dated to about 1910. The pattern number without the text and described as "Life Buoy" is 30494 and with the text described as "Motor Tyre" is No 37058. This dates this design before 1907.
I would like to see a picture of the real thing.
Interesting that Baccarat did something similar, I have quite a few Baccarat catalogues to add to the site from c1925 to the 1960's it will be interesting if a similar one is shown there - and perhaps I even have American catalogues with such a shape in.
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