Topic: Mdina glass colour question........

[WhatHo!]

Anyway, you put those 2 lemon squeezers colours together and you have every colour in Patricks whale. So on balance with present data I think which ever company made them made Patrick's whale as well.

[chopin-liszt]

I believe Christine's memory more than I do mine, so yes, Mtarfa, not Phoenician.
Sorry for the confusion.

(As new info. has emerged, some of these things have gone backwards and forwards between makers.)

[Patrick]

Used your picture here Sue, If not happy will remove.

Thanks to all who answered and this seems to be the answer. 

[chopin-liszt]

Feel free to use any image I post - they're all in the public domain here, for the use of all glassies.
My only caveat is that you do not profit financially from it. 

[Lustrousstone]

You have the lemon squeezer - I gave it to you

[chopin-liszt]

I know, you have been the source of some of my very, very bestest and most unusual bits of Mtarfa!

(The ashtray with the folded rim sits on my coffee table beside me, I use it for useful bits and bobs I need kept handy, not ash. The blue trailed vase is currently propping up Lumpy's photograph on my main sheves.)

But I'd forgotten about the lemon squeezer shape of its bottom part, and I hadn't update my wrong Phoenician attribution to this one with the swirls and that inky blue.
I've got them both sitting right beside me. The one you gave me is a good bit bigger than the swirly one.

Thanks for keeping me right, yet again. You're very, very good at it, Christine. I appreciate all the help, and I'm sure the board must, too.

[Baked_Beans]

Just to confirm, I thought my 'ugly-footed' fish contained silver chloride but now I don't think it does ! ....just small bubbles

There is a definite green colour to the majority of the glass that  is enamel free .

Non-footed versions of this general  fish shape , I'm sure I have seen with Mtarfa labels.

Cheers, Mike

[Baked_Beans]

Correction, base sigs., not labels....memory fading