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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: josordoni on October 11, 2007, 04:08:31 PM
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This is very pretty little Bavarian snuff bottle - solid blue glass, not flashed, with enamelled flowers to back, with flowers and place name Andenken to front - obviously a tourist piece, would I be right to assume late Victorian?
roughly 4.25 ins 105 mm tall
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Hi, my German is really rusty but doesn't Andenken mean "gift" :huh:
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memory.
Cap is to loose for snuff, perhaps used to carry some scented water on a neckchain...
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Hi, my German is really rusty but doesn't Andenken mean "gift" :huh:
nope it is "souvenir"
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Looks like its got little tweezery things attached to the cap :huh:
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Frank and Ivo - thanks. I only remembered it because of a plant I grow - Aster novae-angliae 'Andenken an Alma Pötschke' - which I'd always understood meant that it was a New England aster that came from Alma Pötschke :) It's lurid pink.
Sorry Lynne, not helping with your bottle :-\
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Looks like its got little tweezery things attached to the cap :huh:
The bottom bit sort of expands outwards to fit the stopper to the neck of the bottle.
Interesting that Andenken just means souvenir - you would expect an Andeken from somewhere wouldn't you?
Frank the bottle is actually quite heavy, I wouldn't want to wear it on a chain...
here are some more pics
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So just an ornament then.
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So just an ornament then.
Most things are in the end.