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Title: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: obscurities on July 16, 2012, 03:13:48 PM

I am really posting this here to make sure Robert sees it before a mod moves it to Bohemian glass. This is a find at the large show we go to every year in Portland Oregon. It is now my 4th piece of early Beranek in as many months. I have not seen this color and finish before, but when I picked it up both Peggy and I knew it was early Beranek.  The dealer had no idea what it was and it was priced pretty cheap.... a little negotiating and it was almost a gift from him to me..... 

It has a smoother interior than my other pieces and is slightly thinner glass. It also has much smaller bubbles formed in the Pulegoso layer which is cased in clear.

It stands approx 7 inches tall and has a nicely ground but not highly polished pontil. The glass itself exhibits all of the characteristic flaws you would expect to see from the conditions under which it was produced.

The shape can be found on the first page, bottom right, of these hand done line drawings:

http://www.vcm.cz/program/exhibitions/glass/pdf/45_49.pdf

A great addition to my collection early Beranek pieces.

Title: Re: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: glassobsessed on July 16, 2012, 04:47:11 PM

Ooh, aah, very nice. ;D

John

Title: Re: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: bOBA on July 16, 2012, 04:55:02 PM

Thanks Craig,

excellent quality piece,

Robert (bOBA)

Title: Re: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: langhaugh on July 16, 2012, 06:34:11 PM

Craig,

Good find. I haven't seen that piece around here, although I'm not sure I would have been able to pick it out.  As I just came back from the Oregon Coast, I'm kicking myself for missing the Portland show.

David

Title: Re: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: dirk. on July 16, 2012, 07:14:04 PM

Nice one! You seem to have some of the unusual Beranek over there...  ;)

Title: Re: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: rocco on July 16, 2012, 07:56:37 PM

I think I wouldn't have recognized it as Beranek -- good eye there :)

Michael

Title: Re: Beranek - 1945 Production - Shape 4511 - Powder Blue and very cool....
Post by: obscurities on July 17, 2012, 05:09:13 PM

Some additional images, and an updated group shot of the recent finds....