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Author Topic: Caithness Morven with Dishes  (Read 2465 times)

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Offline adam20

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Caithness Morven with Dishes
« on: September 26, 2011, 08:05:46 PM »
This is interesting

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAITHNESS-GLASS-DECANTER-dishes-/150664222935?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item23144998d7

Not seen these side dishes before - quite nifty the way they wrap around the base - are they a match - mmmm - I don't think so.

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2011, 10:01:41 PM »
Not so sure Adam, the odds of making such a perfect match are astronomical, at best only a handful could have been made - did CG even have the facilities to make them though? Maybe outsourced to a presser. It is of course possible that they were mould blown and cut down.

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2011, 11:22:09 PM »
Marriage surely...

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2011, 11:33:51 PM »
Isn't this one of those nibbles sets that sat on a teak tray with a bowl in the middle for a dip. Crudite set, or something like that, they were called I think?
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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2011, 06:48:46 AM »
I agree with Anne.

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2011, 11:54:08 AM »
Only handling the pieces could confirm if the dishes are the same metal.

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2011, 02:33:52 PM »
Mother had a set of those dishes - exactly the same - she removed them from whatever thing they were in and made a big copper dish to hold them. There was a small round one in the middle - not a decanter.
I strongly agree it's a marriage - but quite a good one. But you'd still need to have both decanter and dishes in your mitts to see if the marriage works in reality.
The dishes are quite thick and clunky.
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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2011, 03:54:00 PM »
The teak tray and bowls thing was my assumption too.

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2011, 09:04:50 PM »
Well look here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIGSMED-LAZY-SUSAN-/250754112268?pt=UK_Collectables_Kitchenalia_RL&hash=item3a621c1b0c

The trays are a uniform colour and not cased......unlike the Caithness 'Morven' decanter which has a graduated colouring and is cased.

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Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2011, 10:26:23 AM »
Perfectly correct Nigel :sun:
Thanks for pointing this out - I forgot to mention the lack of casing on the dishes. :pb:
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