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Title: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Fen on February 21, 2009, 10:42:21 AM

Couple of pressed glass matching bowls in a sort of blue that I would call Ice Blue. Six and a half inches long with a height that is three inches at the highest point and two inches at the lowest point. Thought they might be Czech from the 1940's?

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think?
Post by: Ivo on February 21, 2009, 11:49:16 AM

Don't know what it is but Schalen & Teller translates as Dishes and plates - so I am pretty sure that is not the maker.

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think?
Post by: Fen on February 21, 2009, 12:06:07 PM

I am going to crawl into a hole and never come out to play again!!

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think?
Post by: Max on February 21, 2009, 12:21:51 PM

Aww don't Fen!  I didn't know what Schalen and Teller was either!  It's quite funny though, isn't it?  ;) :kissy:

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think?
Post by: Ivo on February 21, 2009, 01:52:15 PM

Please come out and play  :mus: we're not here to put you down  :fwr: or ridicule you for your German  :thup:. Hope someone manages to identify the bowl - it has a fab colour.

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think?
Post by: Anne on February 21, 2009, 02:20:39 PM

A bit closer to home than Czechoslovakia Fen... Sowerby 2480 boat dish - I have one in pink here...
http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-796 and we've discussed them on the board here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,20051.0.html and here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2623.0.html

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Fen on February 21, 2009, 03:42:07 PM

Thank you, you're all very nice. I feel better now ( but let's keep it a secret - I haven't even told my husband, this is not an anecdote I want repeated at dinner parties!!)

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Anne on February 21, 2009, 05:35:40 PM

Fen it can happen to the best of us! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm?lss ;)

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: pamela on February 21, 2009, 06:38:25 PM

Fen, guess you've read Schalen + Teller on my pages. If you click on 'english language' in the left frame, should not happen again  ;)
upper frame are shapes, left frame are manufacturers - if attributed.
And, a lot remains to do, some of my photos are more than doubled.... sorry  ::)

Anne, thank you! I haven't got one similar, but the swirled star drove me crazy this afternoon.

You find it also on Walther (MINERVA, FRANKFURT, HAMBURG, ULM, GOSLAR {the latter four are all cities in Germany} and Kronenkristall TRAUBE grape + EXPRESS), mostly clockwise

and

Brockwitz (ELEKTRA, ANTIGONE) counter-clockwise as Fen's 

and

Annahütte (clockwise, in this case star at the base is matching) http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/schalen/03604.html
Bernsdorf Ankerglas: could only indicate a late number (1950ies)

Closest match including Fen's bowls' base was Walther's 'Frankfurt' to me.

And this is the German one that covers all of the clockwises, but no exact match:

http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/schalen/07293.html

I always wondered whether perhaps this swirled star was made to match ALL patterns of the range?

Please be aware that all my info given here corresponds to glasses of Saxony, Germany - thank you! :angel:

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Ivo on February 21, 2009, 07:07:28 PM

Friend of mine drove back over the green border between Czechoslovakia and Germany not long after the curtain fell. He pinched a Czech road sign as a souvenir - but it was not until many months later that someone translated it for him as "Danger - minefield"....

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: pamela on February 21, 2009, 07:13:43 PM

??? Ivo, did we all tap into a minefield or just me? I could live with that  8)

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Anne on February 21, 2009, 09:06:01 PM

Which brings me to mention Barry's favourite story (at the risk of having to Cafe myself!!!) of a lady whose hobby was knitting, and who went for a meal in a Chinese restaurant. Always looking for new ideas for her knitted jumpers she was taken with the Chinese characters on the menu so jotted them down intending to use them in her next pattern. She proudly wore the resulting jumper on a subsequent visit to another Chinese restaurant and was startled to find the Chinese owner, his staff and other Chinese customers were visibly amused. When she asked why, he asked her where the pattern had come from so she explained about the nice characters on the menu which she had copied. The owner gently explained to her that what she had actually copied and was wearing emblazoned on her chest was...  "This dish is very tasty and cheap."  ;D

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Max on February 21, 2009, 09:41:02 PM

 :hiclp: ;D ;D  Brilliant! Thanks for the giggle! :hiclp:

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: Ivo on February 21, 2009, 10:05:46 PM

Quite good. Like the guy who brought back a pretty tie with Chinese characters from a visit to Hong Kong.  No one would tell him what it said, so it took him three years before someone told him it said "all white men are pigs"

Title: Re: Czech, perhaps Schalen and Teller do you think? - ID = Sowerby 2480
Post by: dirk. on February 22, 2009, 08:26:26 AM

i´ve heard similar stories here about tattoos!!! (which are of course
a bit harder to remove than a tie)  ;)