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Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Leni on August 15, 2005, 03:55:50 PM
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
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Frank on August 15, 2005, 06:51:25 PM
Niet
Title: bimini
Post by: chuggy on August 15, 2005, 07:00:06 PM
Hi Leni
He looks a bit upset at being pulled out of his cabinet.
Paul
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Leni on August 16, 2005, 07:27:18 PM
Quote from: "Frank"
Niet

Can you say why, please, Frank?  :?

Leni (just keen to learn :roll:)
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Frank on May 15, 2006, 12:14:01 PM
Not their style, nor quality.
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Leni on May 15, 2006, 12:24:05 PM
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:
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Frank on May 15, 2006, 12:52:43 PM
Perhaps someone else will have an idea. - Amazing how many threads I have not given a response to a direct question in the past!
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: David555 on May 15, 2006, 02:55:55 PM
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
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Frank on May 15, 2006, 03:04:07 PM
A lot of opaque ones are Japanese.
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Leni on May 15, 2006, 07:04:37 PM
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:
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: chuggy on May 15, 2006, 07:55:20 PM
Is this really your bird leni, or is it Franks budgie migrated over from the cafe, condition sounds fairly similar.
Paul
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Frank on May 15, 2006, 08:16:46 PM
: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
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Lustrousstone on May 15, 2006, 09:18:22 PM
I think you must have been thinking the poor little chappie needs Red Bull to give him wings, it's actually Red Ball
Title: Is this little bird Bimini?
Post by: Leni on May 15, 2006, 09:59:27 PM
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: