Topic: Wedgwood elephant. ID = Avondale Glass, Pembrokeshire

[rosieposie]

Thank you Christine.... sunny day here,  so should be good.

[Paul S.]

hi Rosie - thanks for looking in and for your link details  -  so Avondale it is.

Happy Birthday - 49 again I guess   -  not too many sherbets perhaps, but enough to take the edge off reality  -  Best Wishes to you. 

[rosieposie]

Thanks  Paul... as a tea totaller,  there will only be sherbert dabs (remember them?)  but it has been a lovely day.
 BTW Avondale never etch their glass,  they have a sticky label with  gold or black writing on a clear label with a glassblower on it and 'Avondale Glass, Hand Made in Pembrokeshire', written on it.
As in this link:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Avondale-Glass-Hand-Made-In-Pembrokeshire-Wales-Swan-Paperweight-With-Label-/121310200957

Here are a couple of mine... one very similar and the other with thicker less convoluted swirls of colour.

[Paul S.]

thanks Rosie  -  I seem to remember having a mouse (think it was a mouse) some time back, and that had the gold or black label you mention  -  it was given to someone else in the family  -  I might try and get it back.............I'm not normally an 'Indian giver' though

So are these things blown partly into a mould of some sort, or are they hand formed completely?

I do remember sherbert dabs.........smallish yellow paper bags about 4" x 4" containing white powder  -  sounds dodgy when you say it like that   -  and there was a quite small piece of rectangular shaped toffee on the end of a small stick which you licked and then dipped into the white powder.
Then again there was another version where you had a shortish liquorice straw through which you could suck up the powder (that sounds even more dodgy)

[rosieposie]

I believe they are hot worked glass Paul,  not made in a mould,  hence the slight differences in them all.... I believe Nemmi has one on eBay at the moment and you will see from that there is a slight difference in the thickness and curl of the trunk. 
I also have others made by them with solid colours and speckled areas.... very different and quite charming.

I agree the dabs sound dodgy,  a bit like the white powder-filled 'Flying Saucers' still available today!