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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Connie on September 24, 2006, 06:40:52 PM

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: Connie on September 24, 2006, 06:40:52 PM

Is this Blenko?  Or some other maker such as Kanawha or Pilgrim?

I found similar glasses in other colors  described as Blenko but not from what I would consider a definitive source  :wink:

http://www.grayhorseglass.com/items/576258/item576258store.html#item

I would like the style name or number and year of production if possible.

TIA

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: flick on September 24, 2006, 08:11:35 PM

It looks like my Empoli "bucket" vase.  The rim and the indentations are the same.  I love your colours though.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l36/flick1066/bucket.jpg

 :D

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: Connie on September 24, 2006, 08:15:46 PM

How is the bottom of your piece finished?

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: CathyG on September 24, 2006, 08:36:03 PM

Hi Connie,

Looks like Blenko to me. Bischoff made them too, but their bottoms were thicker and more vertical and Blenko's were rounded like yours. There are two sizes for of this glass the 418S at 4 1/2" high and the 418L at 6" high. The catalog calls them indented glass and the color is Tangerine.

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: Connie on September 24, 2006, 08:44:01 PM

Thank you, CathyG.  I knew you would know!  :D

Can you tell me the year they were made?  Any particular designer associated with them?

I also love the Tangerine color.  I had a fabulous Blenko Bubble Wrap bottle decanter in Tangerine several years ago.

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: CathyG on September 24, 2006, 11:15:58 PM

Hi Connie,

They are very common and Blenko's been making them for a long time. They are in the early Blenko catalogs and they are still being made today. No designer assoicated with them.

Title: Blenko ? Pinch Dimpled Tangerine Tumbler
Post by: Connie on September 24, 2006, 11:28:31 PM

Thank you, Cathy.