Topic: Optic-ribed decanter with smoky base and stopper. Id?

[chopin-liszt]

I don't think Italian is likely, but thanks very much indeed.
I've been discussing this with my wee brother, who suggests Czech as a possibility, and I think that might be the direction to go with it.

It's the combination of the '30s style optic ribbing, with the much more modern, perhaps '60s style, stopper which has led us there. The Czechs were incredibly advanced in glass design compared to this side of the Iron Curtain, producing the sorts of things we found revolutionary in the '70s way back in the '50s.
Perhaps they would be the ones who would use this unusual combination?

[Pinkspoons]

I don't think the stopper is particularly 1960s - the 'bullseye' shaped stopper can be traced to before the 20th century, certainly, and the combination of a dark glass stopper attached to a clear glass shaft probably similarly so - but I know that Holmegaard were definitely using the dark top / clear shaft combination in the 1930s. I assume other Scandinavian firms were too.

[chopin-liszt]

Thanks, Nic!
Interesting info. I'll do my best to remember that.
I don't think it has too much age to it, almost no age-related wear, (which doesn't necessarily mean too much) but I do suspect the smoky colour is more recent - it is quite an unusual purply brown.

So, absolutely no further forward at all. :thup: