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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Anne E.B. on August 10, 2007, 08:55:22 AM
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http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8128
David - any thoughts on this one please? It's 5 and a half inches from base to tip of point, with a thin band of white around top and white inside. This was bought with two others which both measure 4".
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8127
TIA ;)
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Another success!
The first is a very scarce model: all the milk glass ones are scarce, adn teh first ever produced by Chance, but are more often seen at 7-in. tall. The 5½-in. models (nearer 6-in. I think?) are quite sought after :clap:
The other two are fairly common patterns.
Yellow: is Bandel, Type-2
Maroon: Polka-dot pattern but this colour is fairly uncommon. There is also a 'Chocolate' colour: I call these Choc & Cream as the background colour of these is slightly creamier :D
Yours does look maroon, but it is hard to tell unless they are side-by-side.
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Yippydoo ;D Thanks David ;) I won't tell you what I had to resort to to get all three clean - particularly the large yellow. You'd be horrified if you knew BUT it worked >:D Della knows. I think you'd also be shocked if you knew how much I paid for them too... teehee ;D
I'll check on the polka-dot one again. It looks really maroon in the picture although I must admit I thought it looked brown ('chocolate'). I'll get a second opinion. Its one of those colours I have difficulty with, along with navy and black.
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Well, they are quite tough, but avoid a wire brush and bleach ;)
I have noted a Choc & Cream in Polka-dot unless my dodgy eyes mistook them. I also have a 'maroon' one and thought I had both colours to compare, but you might be able to tell by comparing the white background.
In all likelihood, the two colours were probably the result of changing to a different batch of paint, rather than a deliberate attempt to create another colour, however the Gingham models are quite different because the stripes go in opposite directions!
Posted is a photo that's as clear as mud (or chocolate)
(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10058/thumb_posy-vases-stack.jpg) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8132)
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THAT is a very very clear photograph David, and I am off to change the description on my chocolate-that-now-turns-out-to-be-maroon gingham....I can't tell you how long I hummed and ha'd over which colour and it seems that I still got it wrong.... I didn't know about the direction of the stripes!
Thank you very much!!
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Well, they are quite tough, but avoid a wire brush and bleach ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;) :P
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Thanks for the picture David - it's really helpful. Mine is now definitely chocolate. Something strange happened to the colour when it was placed next to the yellow one - and I don't suppose the black background helped either ::)
Glad to see I'm not the only one Lynne ;)
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Just wished I could find both colours (choc and maroon) of polka-dot: they are both very dark, but I'm wondering if they are simply the same and I'm mistaken?
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David - if you have a moment, would you mind checking out my handkerchief vase for me, in case I have made yet another error - I have just noticed on your Chance website that you say that the chocolate gingham has been seen with the stripes the same way....
I have put a link in the Marketplace section.
thanks!
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I would call that maroon, although it does look a little like chocolate (milk, as opposed to continental :)). The other Gingham (which I call Choc & Cream) is darker and has vertical stripes.
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Thank you David!
I don't know, I reckon everyone's eyes see these dark colours differently anyway.... :o
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Just wished I could find both colours (choc and maroon) of polka-dot: they are both very dark, but I'm wondering if they are simply the same and I'm mistaken?
Would it help if I sent you the chocolate polka-dot? Seeing them together in the flesh might confirm one way or the other.
Anne
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Thanks Anne, but I can't help thinking it's the same colour as mine. I'm sure I did distinguish the difference between the two colours, like the Ginghams, so will have to look out again.
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Hi there,
Have two of these milk glass vases, one yellow, one red but both in the large size; will now hunt for a smaller one!.
Regards,
Firestone.
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There's also ones in black as well! I still have to spot one of the smaller ones in red.
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Hot on the heels of this... a smaller red milk vase was recently sold on eBay for £40. It's reasonable to expect that Chance made all three colours in both sizes.
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David, did Chance ever make handkerchief lamp shades? I'm only asking, because there were a couple recently on ebay described as being possibly made by Chance. It was difficult to tell though from the picture.
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Well, yes... and no! ::) :angel:
I'm pretty sure I know the ones you mean and mentioned to the seller that I was certain these were not made by Chance. There have been other cases of lampshades being wrongly attributed to Chance, but after discussing this with the former general manager (1959-81), he confirms the only ones Chance made, were experimental and merely involved modifying large 7-in handkerchief vases with a hole drilled in the centre. Good idea, but Chance never progressed this.
BUT, before everyone sneaks off and starts wrecking perfectly good handkerchief vases, there were only a very few converted, and probably none that ever survived (apart from one in aforesaid gentleman's garden, which he kindly dug up for me as proof! ;D)
So if any of these converted vases do ever appear, I would be extremely sceptical that they were genuinely intended to be lampshades.
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Well, yes... and no! ::) :angel:
BUT, before everyone sneaks off and starts wrecking perfectly good handkerchief vases, there were only a very few converted, and probably none that ever survived (apart from one in aforesaid gentleman's garden, which he kindly dug up for me as proof! ;D)
Leeks or rhubarb? ;D
Recently at a carboot sale I spotted what looked like (from a distance :o), large Chance handkerchief vases but they turned out to be old lamp shades made from plastic, which was disappointing.
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Think he was trying to grow some more... "get yer ripe juicky hanky vases, only 50p a kilo"