Topic: Olive, plum & neodymium footed bowls, (Split from Re: (Themed) glass displays)

[chopin-liszt]

The trick is to get the camera to focus behind the dust.  :ooh:

Anne, in this pic...  

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/glassoholic/5929987235/in/set-72157627178269528

you have a purple and a green thick stemmed bowl on either end of a shelf - have you any idea what on earth they are? I have a lovely olive green one, and a (horrible   ) neodynum one. I'm clueless about them!
 

[Anne]

Sue, you have me sussed! :24:

You mean these things? Nope not a clue, that was going to be my next ID request on the board.

These two are subtly different - one slightly taller than the other. And the stems are a slightly different shape. Plus the top edges are finished differently, the green one is cut flat and polished, the plum one is thinner and rounded / fire polished (?). I was speculating whether they could be Scandi..? possibly Nuutajarvi or similar as the colours seem to match some of their other pieces...

[chopin-liszt]

the plot thickens - my green one has a rim like your plum one - heat finished, but with a sort of tiny lip ring around it, my neodynum one, has a rounded but absolutely straight rim. It's also smaller than the green one.

I'll get pics tomorrow - there's a 2mm thick layer of dust in them - and a collection of pins (how did they get there? :spls: ) which I very nearly tipped all over myself.

I had wondered Caithness, just a little bit, but I imagine the differences in rim finish would preclude them. I do see them around.

[rosieposie]

I'll get pics tomorrow - there's a 2mm thick layer of dust in them - and a collection of pins (how did they get there? :spls: ) which I very nearly tipped all over myself.

It is a given Sue, if a container sits on a surface and is unmoved for more than 7 days, it will be filled with loose change, pins, needles,  baby's milk teeth, a broken pearl necklace, the little plastic self seal pouch with the free spare button from that cardi you shrank in the wash 10 years ago, a yellow golf tee (even if you have never played golf) and a red rubber band dropped by the postman, that just might be useful, but has perished because you have had it so long and could never remember which container you put it in when you did need it!!  I rest my case. You are forgiven for mentioning the D word as in this case it is legitamate!!

[Anne]

I wondered about Caithness too, given that we see a lot of Caithness in Cumbrian charity shops, which is where these came from. But the slight differences made me wonder if they were from two different times, maybe one being an older piece, and the other a later version...?

[chopin-liszt]

...and the perished rubber band has glued the pins, kirby-grips, buttons etc together.
Have washed them (managed to get detergent stuck under my nail which I stuck in my mouth a wee bit later - eeeeee-screaming-yuk ) and taken some pics.

It would seem that the two different rim finishes are both around - one of superior quality to the other, and the one I have with the better finish is also shorter than the other......

[Lustrousstone]

The colours all look very Caithnessy

[chopin-liszt]

They really do, don't they?  :thup:

I did not see these in the Loch, Heather and Peat Exhibition - but it was quite a small exhibition.

[Anne]

Hmmm having seen the neodymium one I'm agreeing they really do! Thanks for adding your pics Sue... (I quite like the neo one.) 

I've just gone through the Wick Heritage Centre pics in case they had some on display, but all I can see is some larger clear ones which look similar: http://www.caithness.org/history/wickheritagecentre/newwickheritage/photogallery/photos.htm?8?1

[chopin-liszt]

 :24:

Isn't hindsight wonderful - as soon as you mentioned them, Anne, I thought of the large engraved goblets (frequently castles) which have these thick feet - and I have seen them in neodynum glass too.
talking of which - would you be kind enough to rehome my neodynum one?