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I need to try and find mine to see if it's lightweight.  I don't think it was but could be mistaking it with the uranium Percival Vickers one I had/have as no idea what I've done with that either.
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+++ flying free  :)
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ZPÍVAJÍCÍ FONTÁNA = Singing fountain.
.- A young woman, an art student, falls in love with her teacher.
.- A restricted ideas competition is called for a fountain in the Czechoslovakia pavilion at Expo-Brussels 58.
.- The teacher and other architects prepare proposals.
.- The Professor invites his student, now his wife, to participate in the contest.
.- Four projects remain finalists.
.- Finally Dana Hlobilová, the young student, wins the contest with his ZPÍVAJÍCÍ FONTÁNA
.- This would be the start of a long and complicated journey.



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PV as in Percival Vickers. These below are called finger patterns, they were made by many manufacturers in England and Europe. I think the Portieux Vallerysthal catalog does show a finger pattern.
Below are two Percival Vickers on the left. On the right is an unknown green one which is quite light weight in comparison and common and then the brown one by FMJ from Belgium.
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Glass / Re: Black glass enamelled ginger jar
« Last post by NevB on Today at 01:45:43 PM »
I think you'll find it very difficult to find a replacement. It's hard to see the detail of the enamelling because you photo is out of focus but it might possibly be Bohemian, you don't say whether it was bought new so it might be anything from late Victorian to mid 20th. century.
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Glass Paperweights / Paperweight /shot glass
« Last post by bat20 on Today at 12:49:10 PM »
Hi ,I’ve posted this glass on this site before with no luck,so I thought I’d give it a whirl on the paperweight section and hope someone recognises the canes ,although this section does seem slightly deserted these days .My uneducated guess it’s English and possibly second half of the 19th century.It has a lot of wear and a broken pontil, there are obvious tooling marks.Thanks .
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Thanks for the tip Ivo.  I'll take another look around.  It could have been something I spotted in Pressglas-Korrespondenz, so I could be here for weeks trying to find it :)
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PV as in Portieux Valérysthal?
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Your other more recent post on the Percival Yates insulator prompted me to look at this again.  And once again I can't remember where I've seen it recently but I've definitely another reference to this grid formation pattern being French.  I can't remember what it was I saw though, whether it was a piano insulator or another type of item  ???
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more information here on this informative link about the perfume bottles from Traut brothers:
https://www.fohbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bottles-and-Extras_Jan_Feb-2020_WhoOrWhatIsHetra.pdf

Source: Susan R. Arthur - Published in the Perfume Bottle Quarterly
International Perfume Bottle Association
Announced at FOHBC Augusta Banquet

The cats appear as bottles not just figurines.
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