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Title: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: shy1 on July 30, 2009, 09:53:31 PM

have started collecting dilly ducks and wondered if anyone could tell me how many different colors there are and what they are please

Title: Re: dilly duck colors
Post by: johnphilip on July 30, 2009, 09:59:49 PM

Go to Jills ducky site its fantastic you can get there thru Whitefriars.com or when i wake up in the morning ,it gives everything about W/Fs Ducks . Sky blue will cost you an arm and three legs . ::) ps but its a good time to pick up the common colours they are going cheap not quack . Sorry Max another slap at Cambridge :cry:

Title: Re: dilly duck colors
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 30, 2009, 10:15:13 PM

Unfortunately the Whitefriars duck site is off line temporarily pending a re-vamp. But are we assuming you do mean Whitefriars ducks, if so I will give you a list of colours tomorrow ( too late now , sorry!) unless someone comes along to do so before me.

Title: Re: dilly duck colors
Post by: shy1 on July 30, 2009, 10:18:19 PM

tommorow wil be great thanks   :thup:

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 31, 2009, 08:58:52 AM

Catalogued colours for Whitefriars Ducks:

Flint /   Amber / Sea Green / Sapphire Blue / Twilight /
Arctic Blue / Ocean Green / Ruby
Silver

FLC Aqua / FLC Gold / FLC Sky Blue

I am fairly sure this is the complete list.

It is known that there may be a few friggers in a couple of colours like Tangerine and another blue, but these are rare but still are unmistakeably the Whitefriars duck shape.

Hope this helps.  Emmi


PS  There are some very serious duck collectors on the Whitefriars site,  here :  http://www.whitefriars.com/,  who will be only too pleased to help with anything further.

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: shy1 on July 31, 2009, 09:48:25 AM

thanks very much thats a great help 8)

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: Anne on February 07, 2011, 04:57:56 AM

I picked up a flint one the week before last, are they common or less so? It's the first duck I've found for sale round these parts and she's now keeping the trinket sets company on the shelf - a sort of guard duck I suppose! ;D

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: chriscooper on February 07, 2011, 04:38:16 PM

As it got a fire polished beak or ground Anne. I think generally the earlier primitive shaped ones are harder to find, read somewhere the shape changed around mid  sixties when also a grinding machine was employed to speed up the process.
A few intermediate ones in the later Arctic and ocean colours with both characteristics, but generally after '64 they all had the more well known shape with the ground beak.
Some good photos here you may find helpful shy1 till Jill's site is up and running again.
http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Owner=Linda+Crow&Id=4238

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Owner=Trudy+Elkins&Id=4022

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_gallery.php?Owner=Nicola+Harrison

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Id=9486

The rarity value of the later FLC ones especially sky blue is really purely down to amounts made.
The early ones down to numbers survived.
Chris
 

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: glassobsessed on February 07, 2011, 06:52:05 PM

Is that a penguin masquerading as a duck in the second photo? :D

John

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 07, 2011, 07:25:23 PM

It was hoping it would be camouflaged by dint of colour alone......

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: vidrioguapo on February 07, 2011, 07:28:36 PM

And here is an early survivor with beautiful  fire polished beak intact and about 7 inches tall.

http://www.whitefriars.com/my_photo.php?Owner=Emmi+Smith&Id=8241

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: rosieposie on February 07, 2011, 10:43:05 PM

I couldn't help noticing there was a newly listed (on ebay) Dilly Duck, in the old style, in Flint or clear glass....lovely,  but the price is going up sky high!  I'm beginning to wish I had bought the one I saw in the charity shop now,  instead of telling them what it was and where it was made and an approximate value!!  :pb:

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: Anne on February 07, 2011, 11:07:20 PM

Chris I honestly don't know as it's my first dilly! I'll check next time I go upstairs and report, shall also try and get some photos when I can find himself's camera again. (He hides it!  ;D) I'd no idea there were so many variations in shape though...  :o

Title: Re: dilly duck colors - Whitefriars glass
Post by: vidrioguapo on February 08, 2011, 01:09:37 AM

Assume you are referring to this one Rosiposie.........

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180622265771&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

You are right , it is one of the early ducks with fire polished beak and they do command a premium price - although this one is described as "large|", it is in fact the smaller of the sizes made at the time 5 - 5.5 inches.  Mine in the above photo link is the large one at approx. 7 inches.

Whitefriars ducks seem to be the current trend at the moment, getting higher then average prices on ebay right now.