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Offline johnphilip

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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2011, 07:27:56 PM »
Or perhaps a Threecan . :rah:
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2011, 07:50:34 PM »
Never seen a Pelican with legs like that. They are Toucan legs. It must be a cross breed. Also I question that is a pouched beak and no Pelican I have ever seen has a crest like that.



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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2011, 07:57:14 PM »
Did start as a Pelican, then after taking advice changed it to a toucan now I am not sure.
Nigel, bored with all the Scandinavian and Whitefriars stuff, much of a muchness seen one you've 'em all  :wsh:
A fourcan sounds more like it Jp :thup:
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2011, 08:00:38 PM »
I have several glass animals that don't look like anything on this earth. A lot of artistic license is common so it could be anything. Trouble is once you get one they keep reproducing until you have a whole zoo.

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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2011, 08:43:11 PM »
It could be the rare and elusive OOZALAM bird that flys around backwards in ever decreasing cirles until it flys up its own orifice, ....! soon to be extinct .
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2011, 01:12:23 AM »
Heavy hand TxSilver here to discuss the bird itself. The bird has silver and the nice black feet that hint at Murano, but I'm not sure it is. It looks like it has some swirling of the glass on bottom, rather than being ground and polished. It may just be the way I'm looking at it. The application of the silver is different than most Murano pieces I've seen. I have no idea where this bird could have been made.
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2011, 01:38:11 AM »
I found your pelican at http://www.rikaro.com.au/cu.2_+_cu.1. It's a little different, but I believe it is the same maker. Rikaro is a mystery company to me. I'm not really sure if all their things are Czech, Oriental, or a mixture of the two. Rikaro is an Australian import company. I know many of their things are made in the Czech Republic. I believe other of their things are made in China.
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2011, 03:54:53 AM »
A lot of the Rikaro stuff is Japanese, Chinese and of course Czech. A larger percentage is Japanese though.
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2011, 04:23:09 AM »
Thanks for the information, Kane. I wasn't sure that Japan was one of the countries.
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Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2011, 11:54:59 PM »
Thank you both just checked the link Anita that's it for me, so we can safely say it's not Murano, may Czech a strong possibility it's Japanese and just a slim chance it could be Chinese.
The base is rippled.
thanks again Chris :sun:
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