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Author Topic: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else  (Read 975 times)

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Offline dinklepip

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Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« on: August 26, 2012, 07:29:13 PM »
These bear the typical shape and design that I see around a lot but appear more as pots??????

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2012, 07:35:50 PM »
Piano insulators are solid,so pots of some kind I presume ;D ;D

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2012, 07:46:10 PM »
Salts I would guess

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2012, 09:03:06 PM »
Piano insulators are solid,so pots of some kind I presume ;D ;D
  yeah I know hon, it's just the design threw me as it's pretty much the same as most piano insulators I see around....

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2012, 09:06:52 PM »
only match I can find is here which is a slag glass one ID'd as Sowerby
http://www.rubylane.com/item/138396-2509/Pressed-Glass-Salt-Sowerby-Victorian

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2012, 09:12:42 PM »
oooooooooops have I done wrong with the link again???

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2012, 09:13:51 PM »
oooooooooooooo just found this wicked site with maker and pattern ID extracts, looks pretty similar to pattern no. 1410

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2012, 09:14:24 AM »
No it's not that one or the brown one. It's Sowerby pattern no 1949 and late 1800s I have a saved catalogue page from somewhere

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Re: Piano Castor Insulators or Something Else
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2012, 10:55:38 AM »
thank you Christine, had a good look at that fab site and didn't find that pattern number

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