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Author Topic: Water jug - Teachers Whisky promotional - who and how did they do that?  (Read 898 times)

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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Water jug - Teachers Whisky promotional - who and how did they do that?
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2022, 08:01:09 PM »
They look just like finger drawings in coloured frit. Which is exactly what they are.  ;)
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Re: Water jug - Teachers Whisky promotional - who and how did they do that?
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2022, 09:52:44 AM »
It looks to me as though the lettering has been drawn by hand, rather than using a stencil or mould. For example, if you compare the ‘H’ in whiskey on the two jugs, they are different, the one on the Highland Special example has a sloping horizontal. Also the lettering looks to be different heights and sizes, even from one letter to the next in places. I don’t think that would be accounted for by distortions when making it if printed or using a mould or stencil etc, it looks freehand to me.
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Re: Water jug - Teachers Whisky promotional - who and how did they do that?
« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2022, 11:24:42 AM »
That would have to be done with the glass cold, so it would be blown then cooled then painted and then heated again before the red could be added. A lot of complication along with the risk of reheating, I can't see that, it does not account for the depth of the letters either.

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