Tortoiseshell.
The script puts it to the time they started using a vibrating tool, into the '80s but these would often have the thinner sort of script consistent with the '70s.
I don't know when they stopped making Tortoiseshell, but it does appear to have faded out, reasonably early on.
There seems to be a lot more Earthtones around than Tortoiseshell.
I am becoming increasingly fond of Tortoiseshell as the years go by - it's not just "brown stuff" is it?
The brown colour was created by the addition of silver nitrate to red glass, so there are often reds coming through, it's a warm and glowing sort of brown you end up with, and with lots of movement.
My favourite Fish vases are the triangular Tortoiseshell ones.
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