See four GlassGallery images
here, each with click image to enlarge feature. Apologies — I have chopped off the top inch or so of the solifleur vase from my photographs. It is cut at 45° and polished.
Original Formano label. Welded steel plate and glass. Maximum width 19cm 7½", base d. 12.1cm 4¾", solifleur vase h. 25.5cm 10", total weight 725g 1lb 9½oz.
Other observations:
More exact inch measurements than you would expect, suggesting the possibility of British manufacture.I always thought that the positioning of the label showed the retailer which way to display it. Images 3 and 4 show the piece with the label at the front and back. In this case that theory clearly doesn't work!!!I found a website in German —
http://www.formano.de This includes product range sheets for the last four years, but my piece seems to predate these.
Is "Formano" an amalgam of "Formia" and "Murano"?
Help.
Bernard C.
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