Topic: Oblong bubble vase / biscuit jar?

[Gilead]

Ivo
     just taken a look on Whitefriars .com and found one that more or less looks the same on Whitefriars  Ref 941, and the web master comments saying polish company Maraku. so wonder if this could be?

[Anne]

Hi Gilead, I suspect Maraku is a mistype or misremembered for Makora as Ivo has already suggested above. Ivo's done extensive research into glassmakers which resulted in the publication of his book, Miller's Glass Fact File a-z, (by Ivo Haanstra, published 2001 and available from Amazon books - see search box at top of the board & here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,19149.0.html.)

If Ivo doesn't know of Maraku then it's unlikely to exist. (Maraku doesn't sound at all Polish. by the way, but there is an import company of that name in the UK - it imports fats and waxes, though, not glass!)

[Gilead]

Anne
        thank you for the correction, because to be honest im not the best speller and reader, due to my wayward school day's bunking off, but when young we all know best, (not) so the ref 941 must have meant Makora then.

[Anne]

The error wasn't yours Gilead, it was shown as Maraku on Whitefriars twice, so someone there probably misheard/misremembered it.  It's easily done with words that are unfamiliar to us - I struggle like mad with anything Italian or German! 

[Gilead]

Hi
    Me again just bumping up, hope no one minds
                                                                 Steve

[Lustrousstone]

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