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Author Topic: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976  (Read 4009 times)

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Offline glassobsessed

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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2016, 09:42:32 AM »
For reference, Melita seems to be to the Maltese as Britannia is to the British: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_%28personification%29

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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2016, 12:04:09 PM »
Very, very vague rumblings and grumblings my guts have been chucking at me are that Melita was streaky and came in bent wavy shapes. Stuff I would have considered much much newer than from the time Dobson was still there.

I don't know why I've been thinking that. :-[
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2016, 10:53:52 PM »
Yes, I saw that Wiki article... interesting reading and it seems that Melita was the original name for Malta.
It will be wonderful to know for sure what the 'Melita' range of glass looked like. :)
Rosie.

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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2016, 11:31:20 PM »
I had an orangey red with blue swirl verdala ashtray and a yellow with orangey red swirl one.  That shape was a Michael Harris shape wasn't it? but the colours weren't. Could it have been the orangey red and yellow that were the colours?
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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2016, 04:04:55 PM »
It could but we don't yet know... Verdala was originally a Harris shape, it stayed in use after he left. Some shapes changed others were discarded, bottles became round and mould blown, Tricorn vases seem to have disappeared altogether.

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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2016, 04:31:54 PM »
The Verdala bowls were designed for the Verdala Hotel, which is where the name comes from. They're the large ones with the sides at a 90 degree angle to the base.
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Re: Mdina ' MELITA ' Range...........January 1976
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2016, 09:19:02 PM »
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