Topic: Holmegaard Canada.... or not?

[Pinkspoons]

Lucky you - Holmegaard very rarely appears in these parts. Which is odd when you consider it's a fishing town which had many social and economic links with Denmark.

[Andy]

Looks like a few of us have a set of these!
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4955

not my best photo, sorry, i always thought probably Holmegaard, but they look
like the Caithness Canisbay to me now, am i right in saying the colour leaks into the stem,
like a sommerso effect, the bowls appear brown and the sommerso ring is amethyst, theyre
5 3/4" tall.
Andy

[Pip]

Yep, they look like Caithness to me - but I don't really know what you mean about the 'amethyst' part - mine are a smokey brown bowl going into clear glass stems.

[Andy]

Pip,
a couple more photos,
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4963
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4962

mine appear brown, and i think the bowls are! But there is definitely 1/2cm sommerso effect
ring into the clear stem, and held in daylight, the sommerso shade is purple!
Try yours in the daylight!
Andy.

Maybe mine are the originals, and everybodys else just cheap imitations! 

[Pip]

mine appear brown, and i think the bowls are! But there is definitely 1/2cm sommerso effect
ring into the clear stem, and held in daylight, the sommerso shade is purple!
Try yours in the daylight!
Andy.

Maybe mine are the originals, and everybodys else just cheap imitations! 

  wishful thinking!  I think the effect you're talking about is as a result of the concentration of the brown colour but I will double-check mine in the daylight tomorrow to be sure though.

[Andy]

Anyone need some more??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270091243943&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1

Andy

[Pip]

Andy, the photo of those definitely show that purple effect you were talking about.  Mine are much browner - perhaps a different colour altogether.

[Andy]

Hi Pip,
actually these are far more purple than mine, and dont appear to have a 'sommerso' effect,
mine appear brown, but definitely have a purple ring at the base.
Maybe it was just down to the glassmakers mood on the day? 
Andy

[Pinkspoons]

I contacted the seller of this auction days ago to point them in the right direction for attribution, they well-I-nevered at the Caithness relevelation, but unsurprisingly didn't alter the auction...

Here

So just a fair warning to those who may have missed this thread and were pondering them as Holmegaard. 

[Pinkspoons]

Another "Canada-inspired" set of drinking glasses, this time in amber from Leonardo:

http://www.onthetable.co.uk/product.php?sproductID=647&product=Leonardo_Amber_Vela_Glass_Collection&PHPSESSID=0f90b3cf8dd6c764b09f5d5aa61cee8b