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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Tigerchips on April 01, 2007, 12:01:18 AM

Title: Pressed glass Blackpool ashtray, no it's not what you're thinking, ha!
Post by: Tigerchips on April 01, 2007, 12:01:18 AM

There's a cheap tatty peice of resin stuck on top of this ashtray trying to look like it belongs there.

Do I really care who made this ashtray? Unfortunelty, yes, and it really worries me.  ;D
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_48497.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_48498.jpg

Actually, it's not half bad, I quite like it.  8)


So then, any clues as to who made this ashtray please?

Thanks, Tuts.

Title: Re: Pressed glass Blackpool ashtray, no it's not what you're thinking, ha!
Post by: Frank on April 01, 2007, 11:38:22 AM

The bit of resin should help to at least date it. Is it Resin?

Title: Re: Pressed glass Blackpool ashtray, no it's not what you're thinking, ha!
Post by: Tigerchips on April 01, 2007, 03:28:07 PM

Same kind of stuff as Border Fine Arts and Country Artists. It came out of a box full of old things (1970-80's perhaps) and the glass was a dirty brown colour before I cleaned it. It was probably held in a smoke filled room for a lot of years.

Title: Re: Pressed glass Blackpool ashtray, no it's not what you're thinking, ha!
Post by: Ivo on April 01, 2007, 04:49:50 PM

The ashtray looks very familiar, not sure it it is Bormioli or Arques or St. Helens - but certainly mass produced.