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Author Topic: Decanter carafe bottle vase ? Anyone know the maker  (Read 4554 times)

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Offline ahremck

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Re: Decanter carafe bottle vase ? Anyone know the maker
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2012, 05:55:35 AM »
Just be careful Paul.  Glass and water have a very high surface tension.  Too good a fit will make the stopper unable to be removed.  Suggest you use the paste with a little vaseline so the surface tension is modified.

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Re: Decanter carafe bottle vase ? Anyone know the maker
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2012, 01:01:47 PM »
thanks for the warning Ross.........then you certainly wouldn't have liked my first idea which was to somehow fit the stopper into a chuck on my woodworking lathe, apply a little paste and gently offer up the body whilst the stopper was turning  -  all this to hasten the end result!!       I decided against this method just in case the two parts jammed whilst the stopper was still turning :o
However, I'd swear I have read in one of my books recently that chucking the stopper was a method used by some of the old guys.          I'll now try it manually, and when done will post pics of the decanter, whose origin I know nothing of. :)

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Re: Decanter carafe bottle vase ? Anyone know the maker
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2023, 02:01:05 AM »
I now have two of these, one came with a stopper, the other didn't and has no neck wear to suggest it should have had one.

What is interesting is that there is a significant difference in the top of each piece - the stoppered one is thicker and the stopper fits well, the other one is a slightly more flared top and the stopper doesn't fit it at all well, so I wondered if Morven may have been made as a carafe as well as a decanter?
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