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Author Topic: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?  (Read 2829 times)

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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2013, 12:32:54 PM »
What is the diameter around the thickest part?
I've found a bit which may have been shaped in a tapering mould...
It's diameter at the thickest part is 31.5cm/12 1/2".

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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2013, 12:43:56 PM »
I'm sure we've seen this strapping on something non-Mdina but have no idea what

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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2013, 02:13:47 PM »
Roughly the diameter across the widest part of the body is 4 inches or 10cm.

Thanks for taking a look Christine, there is certainly something vaguely familiar about this piece.

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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2013, 02:27:24 PM »
I got me diameters and me perimiters muxed-ip.... but even now, had to get M to correct my perimiter into a circumference... and you don't want to see all the typos that I've had to correct just trying to say that...

Got a couple of pics!

The clear bottle has a diameter of ~ 4", circumference of 12 and an 'alf inches. That's the bit that makes me wonder about a mould. But it is the only bit I've seen (or have) with this tapered bottom.
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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2013, 02:44:55 PM »
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ahh....I did wonder if you meant circumference! - The circumference of this piece around the widest part of the body is 32.5cm or 12.5 inches.

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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2013, 02:47:25 PM »
So they DO have the same dimensions of bottom parts!

(good grief - I managed the "dimension" word correctly too - are there improvements in my functioning - or am I just randomly getting it right occassionally?)
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Re: Unusual Strapped Amethyst Mdina Small Vase...?
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2013, 03:08:12 PM »
Curiouser and curiouser, so the bottoms do seem similar! Perhaps a coincidence or not..?..all very intriguing.

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