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dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« on: July 30, 2009, 09:53:31 PM »
have started collecting dilly ducks and wondered if anyone could tell me how many different colors there are and what they are please

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Re: dilly duck colors
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 09:59:49 PM »
Go to Jills ducky site its fantastic you can get there thru Whitefriars.com or when i wake up in the morning ,it gives everything about W/Fs Ducks . Sky blue will cost you an arm and three legs . ::) ps but its a good time to pick up the common colours they are going cheap not quack . Sorry Max another slap at Cambridge :cry:

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Re: dilly duck colors
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 10:15:13 PM »
Unfortunately the Whitefriars duck site is off line temporarily pending a re-vamp. But are we assuming you do mean Whitefriars ducks, if so I will give you a list of colours tomorrow ( too late now , sorry!) unless someone comes along to do so before me.

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Re: dilly duck colors
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2009, 10:18:19 PM »
tommorow wil be great thanks   :thup:

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Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2009, 08:58:52 AM »
Catalogued colours for Whitefriars Ducks:

Flint /   Amber / Sea Green / Sapphire Blue / Twilight /
Arctic Blue / Ocean Green / Ruby
Silver

FLC Aqua / FLC Gold / FLC Sky Blue

I am fairly sure this is the complete list.

It is known that there may be a few friggers in a couple of colours like Tangerine and another blue, but these are rare but still are unmistakeably the Whitefriars duck shape.

Hope this helps.  Emmi


PS  There are some very serious duck collectors on the Whitefriars site,  here :  http://www.whitefriars.com/,  who will be only too pleased to help with anything further.

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Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2009, 09:48:25 AM »
thanks very much thats a great help 8)

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Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2011, 04:57:56 AM »
I picked up a flint one the week before last, are they common or less so? It's the first duck I've found for sale round these parts and she's now keeping the trinket sets company on the shelf - a sort of guard duck I suppose! ;D
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Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2011, 04:38:16 PM »
As it got a fire polished beak or ground Anne. I think generally the earlier primitive shaped ones are harder to find, read somewhere the shape changed around mid  sixties when also a grinding machine was employed to speed up the process.
A few intermediate ones in the later Arctic and ocean colours with both characteristics, but generally after '64 they all had the more well known shape with the ground beak.
Some good photos here you may find helpful shy1 till Jill's site is up and running again.
http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Owner=Linda+Crow&Id=4238

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Owner=Trudy+Elkins&Id=4022

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_gallery.php?Owner=Nicola+Harrison

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Id=9486

The rarity value of the later FLC ones especially sky blue is really purely down to amounts made.
The early ones down to numbers survived.
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Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2011, 06:52:05 PM »
Is that a penguin masquerading as a duck in the second photo? :D

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Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2011, 07:25:23 PM »
It was hoping it would be camouflaged by dint of colour alone......
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