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Title: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: adam20 on September 26, 2011, 08:05:46 PM

This is interesting

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAITHNESS-GLASS-DECANTER-dishes-/150664222935?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item23144998d7

Not seen these side dishes before - quite nifty the way they wrap around the base - are they a match - mmmm - I don't think so.

Adam

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: Frank on September 26, 2011, 10:01:41 PM

Not so sure Adam, the odds of making such a perfect match are astronomical, at best only a handful could have been made - did CG even have the facilities to make them though? Maybe outsourced to a presser. It is of course possible that they were mould blown and cut down.

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: glassobsessed on September 26, 2011, 11:22:09 PM

Marriage surely...

John

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: Anne on September 26, 2011, 11:33:51 PM

Isn't this one of those nibbles sets that sat on a teak tray with a bowl in the middle for a dip. Crudite set, or something like that, they were called I think?

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 27, 2011, 06:48:46 AM

I agree with Anne.

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: Frank on September 28, 2011, 11:54:08 AM

Only handling the pieces could confirm if the dishes are the same metal.

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 28, 2011, 02:33:52 PM

Mother had a set of those dishes - exactly the same - she removed them from whatever thing they were in and made a big copper dish to hold them. There was a small round one in the middle - not a decanter.
I strongly agree it's a marriage - but quite a good one. But you'd still need to have both decanter and dishes in your mitts to see if the marriage works in reality.
The dishes are quite thick and clunky.

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: glassobsessed on September 28, 2011, 03:54:00 PM

The teak tray and bowls thing was my assumption too.

John

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: nigel benson on September 28, 2011, 09:04:50 PM

Well look here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIGSMED-LAZY-SUSAN-/250754112268?pt=UK_Collectables_Kitchenalia_RL&hash=item3a621c1b0c (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIGSMED-LAZY-SUSAN-/250754112268?pt=UK_Collectables_Kitchenalia_RL&hash=item3a621c1b0c)

The trays are a uniform colour and not cased......unlike the Caithness 'Morven' decanter which has a graduated colouring and is cased.

Nigel

Title: Re: Caithness Morven with Dishes
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 29, 2011, 10:26:23 AM

Perfectly correct Nigel :sun:
Thanks for pointing this out - I forgot to mention the lack of casing on the dishes. :pb: