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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: sueglass on March 13, 2009, 12:51:18 AM
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Hi all, I have these and feel they are made by Holmegaard, The colour and weight. Have goodled and yahooed every site I can. Anyone? they each weigh 300 grams approx. Thanks, Sue
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I would have thought they are Arcopal...
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Impossible to tell the colour from that angle - but it's not a shape I'm immediately familiar with.
Holmegaard will be a grey with a deep green tinge to it - although even that's no guarantee.
Ivo is probably spot-on with Arcopal/Luminarc. Their greys are generally quite brown-tinted.
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Thanks Ivo and Nic for the replies. I have had Canada glasses before and they were the same in colour as these. These have got a green tinge to them. I have added another photo which maybe shows this better. Sue.
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Still looks a little brown on my monitor - but that's web-colour and monitor-setting variation for you!
But, as I said, it's not a design I recognise so I can't say for certain either way. Sorry.
If it's any consolation, I too have a stash of green-grey drinkware that I've never been able to attribute. ;D
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Nic, my camera is bad as well which doesn't help, something which you can't tell by the picture is that they taper in slightly at the top as well. Sue
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I'll keep an eye out for anything similar in the HG catalogues, just in case.
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Nic, my camera is bad as well which doesn't help, something which you can't tell by the picture is that they taper in slightly at the top as well. Sue
Sue, if you can post up a photo of the glass from a straight on side view so we can see the shape properly it may help.
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while you're at it, also shoot the bottom and the rim, please - they may be telltale.
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Actually, fairly sure that it's not Holmegaard after looking closely at the rim in the first photograph.
It looks to have a small ridge of glass running around it, meaning that if it was made at Holmegaard it would have to have been cracked off hot using the Gerbaud method, which is to say that the glass was inserted into a machine and the excess glass was melted off to the right height by small and very hot flames, causing this small 'slug' around the rim.
When it came to thin-walled drinkware Holmegaard used this almost exclusively on catering-quality glass from the 1950s onwards because it gave a cheap mass-produced appearance. Most retail-quality glass was cracked off cold.
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Not the Arques I thought it might be - that is good news!
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I have taken the best I can, also some true measurements. Base width 7.5 cm. rim width 6.5 cm and height is 11 cm. Again I apologise for the poor pics my camera is only 2.3 mp. Thanks for all your help and replies. Sue.
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Thanks for the additional images. Based on the rim finish and darkness of colour we can very safely rule out Holmegaard. Even on very thick glass Holmegaard's 'Smoke' colourway tends to fairly light and transparent.
This is a piece of similar size and thickness, a 'Skotland' series glass by Per Lütken, 1961:
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What about Caithness maybe, in 'peat' ...