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Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Connie on March 05, 2006, 11:18:09 PM
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)
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Ivo on March 06, 2006, 07:03:41 AM
the design is from 1946/1948 but production may have been much later.
I could recommend a handy little book for the Orrefors codes.....
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Della on March 06, 2006, 08:04:22 AM
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.
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Connie on March 06, 2006, 09:52:18 AM
<slaps self upside the head>  Ivo - I never thought to look in your book  :oops:  I have a copy :lol:

Thank you!
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Frank on March 06, 2006, 12:45:59 PM
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!
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Connie on March 12, 2006, 12:21:31 PM
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:
Title: Orrefors
Post by: Bill G on March 12, 2006, 12:54:50 PM
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.
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Connie on March 12, 2006, 01:11:45 PM
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.
Title: Orrefors
Post by: Bill G on March 12, 2006, 03:34:03 PM
The two color descriptions from the catalog
are
ruby red and gray green
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Ivo on March 12, 2006, 04:59:06 PM
here is a Selena in the original "moonstone"colour:

http://i2.tinypic.com/r9k0fm.jpg
Title: Orrefors Bowl - Pictures added
Post by: Connie on March 12, 2006, 09:54:25 PM
Bill and Ivo - Thank you both again  :!: