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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: rosieposie on December 12, 2010, 01:24:54 PM
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Would anyone like to help with this bird's identity please?
I thought it might be a nightjar from the shape and colouring, and wondered if it could be Reijmyre or even possibly a British glass firm....Avondale perhaps?
15cm long, he is beautifully modelled and has a very finely polished base.
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Here is a side view as well.
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Hi,
Very nice!
It looks like Reijmyre to me.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=370
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Thank you so much Ingela, I am certain this is the same make as your green one....so my hunch was right!!
I am so pleased, because so many of my Reijmyre pieces are pressed glass, and this is blown....at least I think it is, am I right?
In all events, it is beautiful, and I love your green version as well......now I will be on the lookout for more!
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and this is blown
If it's solid, no. It's rather difficult blowing a solid lump of glass. It's hot worked by hand. It's a common misuse of the word blown, particularly in respect of solid paperweights.
Did Reijmyre make pressed glass? Everything I've looked (except birds) seems to be blown, mould blown maybe but not pressed.
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Thank you so much for that, Christine....I am still on a steep learning curve and am always happy to be pointed in the right direction.
So my other pieces are mold blown and this 'nightjar' is hot worked. I think I assumed they were pressed was because they have some mold seams on them.
Does that mean that my Langham glass is Hot worked rather than hand or mouth blown?
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If they are birds, animals or paperweights they are hot worked unless they are hollow. It has to be hollow to involve any sort of blowing. Hand blown is mouth blown. Think of hot glass like bubble gum. You can squish it into a mould, which will give you seam lines, as you have to open the mould to extract it. You can free blow it. Or you can mouth blow it into a mould, which may or may not give you seams, depending on the shape of the mould. Or you manipulate a gob of glass with tools. (Then of course there is lampworking using glass rods.)
Machine made glass is generally either pressed or mould blown. In pressing, a gob of glass is dropped into a mould, then a shaped plunger shapes the inside of the item. These items also have seams but sometimes there is some hot hand finishing, perhaps to shape the rim. Machine-mould blown items are created from gobs of glass dropped into a mould and shaped using high pressure air jets.
In all items with seams, these may be removed as part of the finishing.
Have a look on you tube, there are lots of videos.
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Thank you Christine, what a mine of information you are.......
I will have to go and have a look at all my glass animals now, but I expect most of them are Hot Worked.
Do you think my Reijmyre Nightjar is worth much, I imagine I would not have paid more than £10 for it, and possibly a lot less?
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Your Langham is hot worked - I've spent many an hour there watching them make it look so easy producing all kinds of animals.
Well worth a visit if you're ever in North Norfolk :)
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Hi kisslikeether,
thankis for that :-*.. I am very lucky, I have 2 Langham Bulls...very rare, only 11 were ever made, for an exhibition display, and John Miller has some of them, so there aren't very many out in circulation.
I also have a white dove, signed as a sample, and a beautiful clear glass Dove on a large glass sphere, signed by Paul Miller. I started to collect their dogs....2 comical dogs that are signed as samples, and a black labrador, unusually with a red tongue hanging out of his mouth!
Perhaps I should show some of them here on the GMB as they are one-offs and therefor quite rare.
I love Langham glass....and have most of the Birds of a Feather set, all signed by Paul. One day I will go up there and watch them working.
I seem to be in the minority collecting glass animals and birds, but I have got a large collection of Art Deco glass as well. :)
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Some of us have a few animals too Rosie, here are some of mine:
http://www.yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/thumbnails.php?album=23 (only one Scandi one in there though - the Pukeberg polar bear.) I think there may be more in the cupboard which haven't been photographed yet. Frank always welcomes pics of glass critters for the Glass Zoo site though. ;)
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Hi Anne, Happy New Year!!
What a lovely collection......I have the Langham crystal rabbit's twin!! So we both have good taste!
I think your Mother & Baby elephant is French....Roc Crystal, but I'm not certain.
However, I now feel very guilty, because I have promised Frank that I would take photos for him for the Zoo.....trouble is, nobody gave me a 'round tuit' so I haven't done them yet.....but I will Frank.....promise! :-[
When you find the others that you have hidden away Anne, I would love to see them.....WHY are they hidden away!!!? Get them out, show them off, enjoy them! :rah:
Thanks for all the help you have given.....it is always appreciated. :-*
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You haven't seen how much room there ISN'T in Anne's house. :24:
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Hi again Anne, just realised I said your Mother and Baby ellie were French ROC crystal, but of course, I really meant Italian RCR crystal. :pb:
I'm sorry! :-[