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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Animals & Figurines => Topic started by: lddlsa on November 13, 2007, 09:09:56 PM
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While I am in photograph downloading mood :comp: here are a few of my Pirelli creatures, nearly all unlabelled I am afraid.
Frank - I bought a bluetit on a branch which arrived today which does have a sticker. I think it is in Glass Zoo unlabelled as possibly Pirelli, would you like photos of it? Odd thing was that no-one else bid on it!
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee276/lddlsa/holidayandglass086.jpg)
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Perhaps everyone has one... but label is good, yes please to pics, one less in the unidentified bucket. :D
Have you noticed how they are often described as an Italian company!
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Frank - I will send photos of the bird soon.
I smiled when I read your comment about them often being described as an Italian company. When I first started buying these animals I ignored those as I assumed sellers knew what they were selling so probably missed quite a few.
I get a strange sense of achievement when I find a Pirelli piece which is not listed as such and the Glass Zoo is excellent with regards to identification. Mind you, I have made two silly purchases recently. One was two glass dogs which I thought were Pirelli terriers but I hadn't noticed in the listing that they had clear 'hair' near the mouths ( is it hair or whiskers?). The other was a labelled Pirelli rabbit which I did think looked a bit strange, when it arrived it had no nose............sounds like a line from that old song 'My old mans a dustman' which went something like "my dogs got no nose......no nose, well how does he smell then........bloomin horrible". :chky:
I think I need to get another job soon, spending too much time on the computer.
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I am not deterred by missing bits if there is a label, as it can still help identify pieces.
I had thought that once there were a couple of hundred Pirelli's catalogued it would be easy to find some pointers... well it turns out that others used the same approaches - so as with much glass, you learn to recognise a teachers style as his students disperse to work. On the other hand a Pirelli worker joined the Zoo recently, I should phone him but have to be a bit cost conscious these days. So more information could finally surface!