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Title: anchors away!
Post by: lucyw on March 23, 2006, 11:42:58 AM
This has been annoying me for ages now, fed up of googling, eyes have gone like this     ----------->  :shock:

http://i1.tinypic.com/s2r8cp.jpg

http://i1.tinypic.com/s2r8le.jpg

Thankyou
Lou*
Title: Re: anchors away!
Post by: Leni on March 23, 2006, 12:02:48 PM
Quote from: "lucyw"
eyes have gone like this     ----------->  :shock:

Googly eyes?  :shock:  :roll:  :wink:

Anchor Hocking?   :?

And isn't it supposed to be "Anchors a-weigh!" As in the expression to weigh anchor
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Leni on March 23, 2006, 12:19:49 PM
And isn't it supposed to be "Anchors a-weigh!"  As in the expression to weigh anchor?   :shock:  :oops:
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Connie on March 23, 2006, 12:22:41 PM
Maybe Lucy wants the anchors to go away  :lol:
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Connie on March 23, 2006, 12:38:14 PM
Definitely not Anchor Hocking.  Anchor Hocking is mostly utilitarian pressed ware.

If it is American, it would be from the 70s when smoke glass was popular.  I have a few ideas to check out.

A side shot of the pitcher showing how the handle attaches to the body might help.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: lucyw on March 23, 2006, 01:27:31 PM
Have no other pics on file sorry (I just checked) this set is boxed up on top of the 'high' wardrobe (it's about 9ft tall, it doesn't use recreational drugs) So it's likely to stay up there for a long time! I am only 5ft with shoes on!

 I had come to the conclusion that they were not Anchor-hocking, I hadn't thought about American though. Cheers.
Will carry-on googling with my googly eyes!
Lou-gli-gooli!**

P.S. It was a deliberate play on words, I really do want the anchors to go away, does everyone else wake up in the middle of the night thinking"oooh! it could maybe be polish" etc
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 01:35:08 PM
The pitcher/glasses shape and applied anchor medalions look very Scandinavian to me. Both Holmegaard and Boda have used this type of decoration (although the smoked glass doesn't look right to be Holmegaard - but that might just be the photograph).

Is it a green-tinted smoke colour?

Edit: Oh, casting my mind back, I once saw a Holmegaard wrought iron candle sconce with a dangly bit of glass (kind of like a small sunspot) that had an anchor on it.... near-identical to the medalions, if memory serves correctly.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: lucyw on March 23, 2006, 02:38:39 PM
The grey isn't greeny at all, if anything it picks up blues from it surroundings very easily making it appear to have a  purple tinge but when placed directly in front of the light it is grey.
I have an ashtray that remindes me of it, I always thought this had a scandinavian feel, but have nothing to base that on!

http://i1.tinypic.com/s2tuvb.jpg

happy-chappy isn't he!

Lou*
Title: anchors away!
Post by: azelismia on March 23, 2006, 06:05:29 PM
what kind of base do these have? is there a pontil? it does look american to me. 50-70's. tiffin, morgantown, ericksen (sp),blenko, fostoria ect all did stuff with that kind of look and feel.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Connie on March 23, 2006, 06:26:16 PM
I checked Morgantown, Tiffin and Seneca. It is not those.  

It doesn't look like anything Fostoria made that I can recall but then I am not a big fan of Fostoria so I don't really study their lines  :roll:
Title: anchors away!
Post by: azelismia on March 23, 2006, 06:48:56 PM
http://retroartglass.com/store/item/tjtw/Viking_Art_Glass/Viking_Smoke_Tall_Candleholder.html

this is a viking candle holder that kind of has the same look.

http://www.moodindigonewyork.com/p3/rw/glassware_html/morgan_water_gray.html

what made me think morgantown was the russel wright stuff they did. it has those same kind of lines and color. while def not russel wright it just reminded me of that sort of thing.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Connie on March 23, 2006, 07:03:33 PM
Quote from: "azelismia"
http://retroartglass.com/store/item/tjtw/Viking_Art_Glass/Viking_Smoke_Tall_Candleholder.html

this is a viking candle holder that kind of has the same look.

http://www.moodindigonewyork.com/p3/rw/glassware_html/morgan_water_gray.html

what made me think morgantown was the russel wright stuff they did. it has those same kind of lines and color. while def not russel wright it just reminded me of that sort of thing.


I agree which is why I checked both my Morgantown book and my Russel Wright book.  8)
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Ivo on March 23, 2006, 07:09:39 PM
I've seen similar prunts on Rosenthal glass from the seventies.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: azelismia on March 23, 2006, 07:10:52 PM
oh yeah, it totally looks like rosenthal too you're right. is rosenthal always marked though?
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Ivo on March 23, 2006, 07:13:18 PM
Not in the seventies - I have decanters and glasses from them which are completely anon. The finish and balance should be perfect though.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: lucyw on March 23, 2006, 10:47:13 PM
Wow!
 Thanks for all the input, since you guys have put in so much effort I will get the 'midget steps' out tomorrow and  take some more pics, I can't remember for the life of me what the pontil was like or even if it had one!
Thanks again
Lou*

 :idea: <--- that looks like someone flashing their bum!!
Title: anchors away!
Post by: lucyw on March 24, 2006, 02:21:42 PM
Here we go..................

http://i1.tinypic.com/s48mjb.jpg

http://i1.tinypic.com/s48mqt.jpg

 I don't know what I was thinking of as these have got a greeny tinge to them!  

As you can see jug has ground and polished pontil, but the glass has no ponti, mark. Just those faint wobbly decreasing circles

Thanks
Lou*
Title: anchors away!
Post by: Ivo on March 24, 2006, 03:07:09 PM
this is the one I was thinking of:

http://i1.tinypic.com/s49r93.jpg

The blob has the picture of a fish, but I have one with an anchor as well, I think.
Title: anchors away!
Post by: lucyw on March 24, 2006, 03:52:25 PM
I do see the similarities, I haven't come across Rosenthal before, will have to go find out about them.
Thankyou all
      :D
Lou*