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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: Connie on March 05, 2006, 11:18:09 PM
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I bought an Orrefors bowl today. It is marked Orrefors PU 3092/1
I know the PU stands for Sven Palmqvist and smooth, uncut glass from info I found on Great Glass
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/swedish.htm
But they do not have the whole date coding which the site says is too complicated to explain there :? So can someone decipher the 3092/1 for me, please.
I will try to post a picture of the bowl tomorrow.
Bowl (http://www.glassmavenhaven.com/connie/orr1.JPG)
Inside (http://www.glassmavenhaven.com/connie/orr2.JPG)
Rim (http://www.glassmavenhaven.com/connie/orr3.JPG)
Upside down showing angled rim (http://www.glassmavenhaven.com/connie/orr4.JPG)
Signature (http://www.glassmavenhaven.com/connie/orr5.JPG)
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the design is from 1946/1948 but production may have been much later.
I could recommend a handy little book for the Orrefors codes.....
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Yes, me too, a great little book Millers pocket fact files 'glass fact file a-z'
by Ivo Haanstra. :wink: :wink:
Not at all expensive, but really useful.
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<slaps self upside the head> Ivo - I never thought to look in your book :oops: I have a copy :lol:
Thank you!
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How many of us ask questions that we already have answered in a book? Partly because of this, and partly because I can never find the book I need, I started an inventory of my glass references. Over 300 so far and the next stage will be trying to organise them properly - currently in drawers, on shelves, piles on the floor and almost certainly some in the pile of parcels that have yet to be unwrapped ... chaos!
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Pictures added. Is this a geode bowl? Does the line/shape have a name?
Sorry but I am totally ignorant on Orrefors. Just know enough to recognize the signature and now with Ivo's book to decipher the date codes :lol:
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Your piece appears in the 1954 catalog under the designation Selena
Your designation 3092/1 is one of a series for this design of 4 which was
produced in two colors.
The four forms had diameters of 95, 120,150 and 215mm
The P stands for Palmqvist and and the u stand for hand shaped.
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Thank you, Bill.
I forgot to put the dimensions in my last post but it is 3 5/8 inches which be closest to the 95 mm size, so the smallest in the range.
Do you know the name of the color? It is a very unusual shade of red.
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The two color descriptions from the catalog
are
ruby red and gray green
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here is a Selena in the original "moonstone"colour:
http://i2.tinypic.com/r9k0fm.jpg
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Bill and Ivo - Thank you both again :!: