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Author Topic: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3  (Read 189838 times)

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Offline glassobsessed

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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #190 on: December 18, 2011, 10:55:16 PM »
Wow, a lot of work and wiring in those shelves!

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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #191 on: December 19, 2011, 01:26:41 AM »
Not to mention the power bills in our new carbon tax world!

Imagine the same thing done with a large glass window (shop size) with the wall Easterly facing so you get the relatively cool morning sun.  Or perhaps a Southerly/Northerly facing wall where the sun doesn't shine onto the glass.  Sorry about those who live where the sun rarely shines - but only two years ago we had a 46.5°C day or in the old scale 115.5°F - so you can imagine with heat that intense in the Sun you really might set fire to the shelves.  And that I might point out is in Melbourne - on the coast - not inland.

All that said what a beautiful result.

Ross
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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #192 on: December 19, 2011, 03:30:34 PM »
It does show off the glass well - but it looks like a shop display.
I couldn't have anything so cold and clinical in my home.

It would be good if museums would display glass like this!

(I'm afraid I was much more interested in the Vladimir Klein at the top of the page - I adore Vladimir Klein's work  :love:
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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #193 on: December 19, 2011, 03:50:56 PM »
I guess it all depends on the individual...  I don't see it as cold and clinical, but clean, non-chaotic, and perfectly pleasing to my senses.   :)

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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #194 on: December 19, 2011, 05:11:54 PM »
We're very different on this matter, aren't we? :)
Are you absolutely sure your fabulous Weidmann candleholders aren't just a little too..... disorganised for you?  ;)
I could give them a "comfy, lived-in" home, any day!  :sun:
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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #195 on: December 19, 2011, 05:51:15 PM »
Lol... then again, a wee bit of disorganisation won't kill me.  My Wiedmann candleholders are fabulous. ;D 

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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #196 on: December 19, 2011, 06:04:20 PM »
Oh well, you can't blame a girl for trying, Anik!  :sun:
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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #197 on: December 27, 2011, 10:57:15 PM »
Well it being the end of a forgettable year for me I thought I should celebrate it with a Scottish Hogmanay disoplay of most of my Scottish collection.  For a McKenzie whose male ancestors came from beside Eilean Donan Castle it seemed appropriate.  Happy Old & New Year to everyone.  I intend to have a better one this year.

Ross

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My 2011 Hogmanay Scottish Display

Top of the Cabinet
Leftmost bowl is a Stuart Strathearn Impressions, remaining 7 items are all Caithness.  The pair in the middle are neodymium glass.

Top Shelf
From the left – 2 Peter McDougall pwts, Tweedsmuir mushroom & very small pwt, small Strathearn millefiori, at rear Paul Ysart H cane pwt, front a probable Salvatore Ysart Millefiore with cherries centre cane.  Small blue dish & large vase both Monart.  The clear Pwt is Edinburgh and the small shot-glass Burns Crystal, and the orange dish is a Vasart.  The remaining 4 items are all Selkirk.

Middle Shelf
The nine pwts to the left of the perfume are all Perthshire.  The perfume and the 15 pwts to the right are all John Deacons.

Bottom of Cabinet
A shelf full of Caithness pwts and vases
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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #198 on: December 27, 2011, 11:14:01 PM »
Ross,  that is a lovely selection of Scottish glass.....I have yet to find a Chris Dodds Mushroom,  but I have lots of his animals (as if you didn't know!)....perhaps I should get them all together one day and take a picture....Selkirk, Chris Dodds and Caithness are my favourites.
Did I tell you BTW that I had bought anothe Alan Fox glass bird......here in UK!!  Hooray, reasonable postage!  When I geth all the Christmas stuff put away,  I will take a picture of it and email it to you.....unless everyone wants to see it!!
Rosie.  :)
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Re: (Themed) glass displays - show me yours, I'll show you mine... part 3
« Reply #199 on: December 28, 2011, 03:13:34 AM »
Hi Ross, great selection!

 I am only Scot "connected"  by marriage (does that still count when one is widowed I wonder?) but I feel the urge to get out the Caithness for New Year coming over me - I'll just have to brave the shed and the redbacks to get to it all!

What is the bowl on the top right top of cabinet? You have just said Caithness but it is not one I am familiar with?

And happy and healthy New Year to you and yours.

regards

Jackie
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