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Title: Blue Bowl
Post by: Gilead on February 11, 2008, 11:47:40 PM
Hi Members
                just been going though some old boxes and i came across this blue Glass any ideas what and who made it. please, as you know im new to glass collecting so am in need of help, but am willing to learn, at the same time i can file my Glass on my pc, as i go along, here is photo of the blue Glass bowl? it is 10ins in length 6ins in width and 2ins in depth at the middle,
                                                                                                           Regards
                                                                                                           Gilead
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: langhaugh on February 12, 2008, 01:06:14 AM
Hi: Any writing on the bottom? I ask because it looks something like a Holmegaard bowl by Per Lutken, which are usually signed. Another clue would be the section of the bowl on the bottom of the inside. Is there a little mound of glass there, as that would be another clue? Also, I can't quite make out if the rim is clear or white.

In any case, it looks very Scandinavian to me, although it could be a number of different companies.

David
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: Pinkspoons on February 12, 2008, 03:39:38 AM
Definitely not Holmegaard. Can't really help any further on this, though, sorry.
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: Gilead on February 12, 2008, 05:20:03 AM
Hi David
            No writing in the base and the rim is clear, very thick though,
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: langhaugh on February 12, 2008, 06:44:06 AM
Well, at least we know it's not  Holmegaard. That means it could be a number of Scandinavian companies. It looks like good quality, so it's one of those pieces that you admire but never fully understand. I have a slimmer version in a very similar shade of blue, btw, that looks more Flygsfors than this one.

David
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: glassaddict on February 12, 2008, 08:26:15 AM
Does anyone think it is a relative of mine which was discussed here?

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,8594.msg72035.html#msg72035 (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,8594.msg72035.html#msg72035)

Hil  :)
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: Sue C on February 12, 2008, 09:41:30 AM
I have a bowl similar marked Magnor.
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: alexander on February 12, 2008, 10:04:48 AM
It looks like Magnor, they didn't sign items on any consitant basis so a lack of signature shouldn't worry you.
These are pretty common around here (Norway), adding to the confusion Hadeland made similar pieces
in the same colorway and the swedish companies just across the border did too.

Hadeland would usually be signed and I'm not sure they did this shape.

If your bowl matches Sue's I'd say a Magnor attribution was in order.

I'd like to add that your bowl seems a bit more "squshed" up, not as smooth a curve
along the length of the piece, this could mean a Swedish origin.
But that could just be the pictures fooling me.
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: Gilead on February 12, 2008, 11:22:18 AM
Hi Thanks
                David Sue & Alexander for all the ideas of what it could be, at least i knowing im on the way to finding out, in the sun it seems a shade lighter blue, but it not along as some other i have seen, so when i get back later i will trawl the net to find out some of the name been thown in the ring at the moment cheers all
                                               Gilead
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: Ivo on February 12, 2008, 11:48:07 AM
Bayel, France used to make these in huge quantities in the 1960s and they still turn up on every market; but in recent years they have been outdone by Ikea.
Title: Re: Blue Bowl
Post by: Gilead on February 12, 2008, 05:05:14 PM
Hi Ivo
          Ho well its the first thing i have ever got from iKEA not that i bought it there, am still learning, but its great doing the hunting and finding out, cheers,