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Connie

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« on: March 05, 2006, 11:18:09 PM »
I bought an Orrefors bowl today.  It is marked Orrefors PU 3092/1

I know the PU stands for Sven Palmqvist and smooth, uncut glass from info I found on Great Glass

http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/swedish.htm

But they do not have the whole date coding which the site says is too complicated to explain there  :?  So can someone decipher the 3092/1 for me, please.

I will try to post a picture of the bowl tomorrow.

Bowl

Inside

Rim

Upside down showing angled rim

Signature

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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2006, 07:03:41 AM »
the design is from 1946/1948 but production may have been much later.
I could recommend a handy little book for the Orrefors codes.....

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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2006, 08:04:22 AM »
Yes, me too, a great little book Millers pocket fact files 'glass fact file a-z'
by Ivo Haanstra. :wink:  :wink:
Not at all expensive, but really useful.
If I know, I'll comment. If I think I know, I'll have a go. If I have no idea, I'll just keep quiet and learn from others, so the next time I'll know.

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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2006, 09:52:18 AM »
<slaps self upside the head>  Ivo - I never thought to look in your book  :oops:  I have a copy :lol:

Thank you!

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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2006, 12:45:59 PM »
How many of us ask questions that we already have answered in a book? Partly because of this, and partly because I can never find the book I need, I started an inventory of my glass references. Over 300 so far and the next stage will be trying to organise them properly - currently in drawers, on shelves, piles on the floor and almost certainly some in the pile of parcels that have yet to be unwrapped ... chaos!

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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2006, 12:21:31 PM »
Pictures added.  Is this a geode bowl? Does the line/shape have a name?

Sorry but I am totally ignorant on Orrefors.  Just know enough to recognize the signature  and now with Ivo's book to decipher the date codes :lol:

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« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2006, 12:54:50 PM »
Your piece appears in the 1954 catalog under the designation Selena

Your designation 3092/1 is one of a series for this design of 4 which was
produced in two colors.


The four forms had diameters of 95, 120,150 and 215mm

The P stands for Palmqvist and and the u stand for hand shaped.

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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2006, 01:11:45 PM »
Thank you, Bill.

I forgot to put the dimensions in my last post but it is 3 5/8 inches which be closest to the 95 mm size, so the smallest in the range.

Do you know the name of the color?  It is a very unusual shade of red.

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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2006, 03:34:03 PM »
The two color descriptions from the catalog
are
ruby red and gray green

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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2006, 04:59:06 PM »
here is a Selena in the original "moonstone"colour:

http://i2.tinypic.com/r9k0fm.jpg

 

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