Topic: Early Mdina?

[spencerline]

Hi this bottle is 14" tall, triangular and has a flat ground base. Can anyone positively identify it? cheers Kev

[glassobsessed]

Mdina, Tricorn bottle, circa 1970. There you go, that is twice now from me! 

Lovely bottle and they actually deserve the tag 'hard to find'.

John

[jonchellycain]

Hi Kev
Welcome to the board. Nothing to add on the piece that John has not already said. It is a beautiful bottle an I am certainly very :mrgreen: it's one of the shapes which has so far evaded my Mdina collection.
Michelle

[spencerline]

Hi Michelle, thanks for the welcome, im sure another will turn up for you have you been collecting for long? Kev

[jonchellycain]

Since I was born lol but that was anything and everything. Been collecting all things related to Michael Harris (mdina Gozo, IOW) for around 6 years. Glass in general around 10 years.
Are you a mdina collector or general glass collector
Michelle

[spencerline]

Hi Michelle, I began collecting Murano and other things around 15years ago and picked up a bit of Mdina and one or two unknowns along the way. I havent  purchased any glass for around 5 years because I have been travelling but I think I will add to my collection again soon.

I like the look of the IOW Attenuated bottles and am thinking of one of those next, ive gotten the bug again now weve settled in the Algarve, Kev

[jonchellycain]

My attenuated bottle cracked quite a few years back it had a small chip on the base when i bought it which must have weakened it or it had an unvisible fracture, i picked it up to clean it and it cracked right through
I have a couple of IOW blue and White swirl which are pictured in another thread, but somebody has added an enormous blue and White swirl attenuated bottle, I've personally never seen one that big before
Here is the link
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=27429.new;topicseen#new

[spencerline]

Hi Michelle thanks for the pics, I have just been on Ebay and there are 4 bottles the biggest at 18.5". The nicest one is the one with the label in tortoiseshell its probably early 80s with a ground polished base, it has the shortest body and longest neck.

The other 3 bottles are early pontil bases I think before the coachbolt but not as slick as the later model. It is meant to be the other way around bodies growing and necks shrinking but this is proof that its not the case, like your blue swirl bows with a different pontil mark. Kev

[glassobsessed]

the one with the label in tortoiseshell its probably early 80s with a ground polished base

The base will not be ground and polished, all the attenuated bottles have a snapped pontil mark, there is simply not the depth and quantity of glass present that would be necessary to grind and polish a base flat.

[chopin-liszt]

And the 14" shorter ones are scarcer - so tend to have a bit of a price premium on them.

A flat polished base would suggest Mdina rather than IoWSG.....