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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Animals & Figurines => Topic started by: Leni on August 15, 2005, 03:55:50 PM
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After posting on the thread about Nicky's vase, I went to look at my little 'Bimini' (I think) vases again, and also did a bit of 'googling' (I know, "you'll go blind!" :roll: :wink: ) and had a look at some Bimini glass on the internet.
When I went back to my cabinet where my great aunt's '100 year-old tourist tat' (as I call it) lives, I suddenly spotted this little bird. :shock: http://tinypic.com/al3ghl.jpg
Just one inch high and an inch and a half across his wing-span, he's a bit the worse for wear, having lost his tail - or whatever he might have been attached to - and having tiny chips off the tip of each wing and the top of his beak, but he looks to me a bit like some of the Bimini birds.
What do the experts think?
Leni
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Niet
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Hi Leni
He looks a bit upset at being pulled out of his cabinet.
Paul
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Niet
Can you say why, please, Frank? :?
Leni (just keen to learn :roll:)
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Not their style, nor quality.
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You've hurt his feelings now! :lol: :roll:
And I haven't really learnt anything! :oops: :roll: I guess it's like Peter always tells me, "You have to see and handle the real and the fakes to compare, then you'll recognise true quality" - or words to that effect :wink:
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Perhaps someone else will have an idea. - Amazing how many threads I have not given a response to a direct question in the past!
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Hi Leni
I used to sell similar tiny glass animals, as you say no more than 1" long (some 2cm) and very cute (they seem to have dried up arounmd my area).
I love the opaque glass used in these tiny pieces. I used to get them in with a mixture of Italian, British (including Pirelli), animals.
I never found a match for them so sold them as simply Italian or Murano.
(http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8036/smallanimals1ix.th.jpg) (http://img269.imageshack.us/my.php?image=smallanimals1ix.jpg)
Adam P
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A lot of opaque ones are Japanese.
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Hmmmm :? It's just the fact that my little bird is at least 60 and possibly as much as 100 years old that made me wonder :shock:
Of course, I don't doubt that Japanese glass artists were making mini animals, etc. that long ago, too :oops: :roll:
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Is this really your bird leni, or is it Franks budgie migrated over from the cafe, condition sounds fairly similar.
Paul
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:lol: :lol:
They were certainly being made in the 1940's as often found on eBay with labels:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6628387104
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6628387921
One company Lefton:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6276265373
Does anyone have details on Lefton?
Another brand Red Ball - Who made them?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7241371369
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I think you must have been thinking the poor little chappie needs Red Bull to give him wings, it's actually Red Ball
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My little chappie looks as if he might have been broken off something like a cocktail stirrer or the like, which is why I thought Bimini in the first place, 'cos someone was showing something like that ..... :?
Sorry, it was a long time ago :oops: :roll: