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A rather ornate celery vase?
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2005, 05:21:29 PM »
Those Brockwitz "Curved Star" celery vases (company pattern name was Zurich) were made in the 1920s and 1930s.

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« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2005, 07:54:50 PM »
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Gorgeous pic of your celeries, Terry!

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Well I do declare...what next :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:


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« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2005, 09:00:36 PM »
OK, OK, fantastic traubenspulers Terry.

Is that better?  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2005, 09:49:32 PM »
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OK, OK, fantastic traubenspulers Terry.

Is that better?  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:




Well :shock:  :shock:  :shock: out of the frying pan and into the fire....and an attempted disguise with technical foreign innuendos too :shock:  :shock:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops: ...where are you Frank


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A rather ornate celery vase?
« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2005, 10:35:40 PM »
Right here, what's up :shock:

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« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2005, 11:00:41 PM »
The story that I heard about "celery glass" was that at some point in history?
British glassmakers were forbidden to make anything except utilitarian glass.
But they still wanted to make "art glass" so they came up with this sort of thing.Crackled glass with CELERY etched onto one of the pair.
http://tinypic.com/ae2tfc.jpg

I've got the other one and that has no "celery" on it!

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« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2005, 08:04:56 AM »
SteveM - it was the tax thing that Adam D mentioned earlier in the thread. Utiltarian glassware attracted a lower tax than fancy glass for frivolous uses such as floral decoration! So, if the "vase" is of a shape that could hold a head of celery, then the factory could call it a vase and it wouldn't attract as much tax.

Frank - you can stand down - Gareth's just teasing  :lol:

Gareth - we could always go the classy French way and call them Coupe lave-raisins.

And on a final note of interest - the Curved Star celery which is shown in the Brockwitz catalogue as a celery (traubenspuler etc etc) is also shown on the Blumenvase section as a Flower vase. If you offer a dual use then you'll sell more!

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« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2005, 09:01:29 AM »

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« Reply #28 on: August 13, 2005, 09:04:24 AM »
OK everyone, now that Frank's asleep..............................

 :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2005, 10:40:43 AM »
Thanks Glen.
It's like the old Nu Joisey saying...invent a tax,create a bizniz(or was that..make a law,create a business?)  :D

 

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