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Title: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: kieran on August 18, 2011, 03:54:58 PM

Hi, decanter is 11" high
im not sure if its holmgaarde or kastrup
its got a flat stopper
does anyone recognise the logo perhaps  for a company ?
thanks

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: Ivo on August 18, 2011, 04:10:52 PM

It is a plimsol mark - found on the side of ships to indicate depth, charge and balance.

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: Helen on August 18, 2011, 04:29:47 PM

I believe it's a Kastrup, as I bought a blue one recently (without the logo) and managed to identify it through this website. See this link
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=27609.0
Hope this helps.
Best wishes
Helen

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: kieran on August 19, 2011, 07:24:18 AM

thanks for the plimsol id ivo
Helen after reading the link l do belive its a kastrup decanter
thanks kieran

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 21, 2011, 10:53:40 PM

It might be a design carried into the Kastrup-Holmegaard merger - I've had, in the past, a number of different Kas-Holm glasses that date to around 1970, covering a range of pre-existing series, decorated with the plimsol line.

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: rosieposie on August 21, 2011, 11:56:34 PM

Hi Pinkspoons,  :hi:  
I wonder, in that case if the design was placed on these decanters and drinking glasses in 1976, to commemorate the date of the introduction of the Plimsoll Line?

I believe 1976 would have been the centenery of the introduction of Sir Samuel Plimsoll's Plimsoll Line.

Although he devised the load line in 1872, it didn't pass legislation until 1876, and that must have been considered a very significant date, so perhaps that is the significance???

Just a thought for you to investigate Kieran.

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 22, 2011, 12:50:58 AM

Half the glasses I had bore earlier Kastrup-Holmegaard labels that dated to circa 1965-70-ish, and the other half bore the label that superceded/overlapped it - although I no longer have the glasses to check the production dates marked on the later labels.  :-\

But, with them bearing both label styles, I believe that early 1970s would be the most probable date for them.

Title: Re: scandinavian holmegaarde or kastrup decanter with mystery logo ?
Post by: HarderNet.dk on September 03, 2011, 08:45:07 AM

The "Plimsol" mark logo is to be found on several glass type made to order by Holmegaard Glasswork to the compagny "Hempel Skibsmaling" Hempel Shipspaint. The earliest glass item from Holmegaard with this logo is dated 1958.

The cluck cluck is probably made to "Hempel Skibsmaling" along with glass types from "Skotland glasservice" (design Per Lütken) Scotland stemware.