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Title: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 01:50:06 PM

Hello All

Does anyone have an idea who made these 3 please?  I though I might be getting Iittala lucky again, but don't know.

Thanks in advance.

Stu.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: jonchellycain on September 07, 2009, 02:02:05 PM

Hi there
i may be sending you in the worng direction, but ive seen similar etched Dartington. Can you pop a picture of the base on and is there any marks anywhere?
michelle

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 02:19:30 PM

Hi Michelle

Thank you for coming back on this one.

All the bases have a slightly recessed circle but not like a polished pontil or anything, just a shallow round dip which is quite wide, and the grain is like concentric circles similar to those I have seen on certain Dartington decanters.  There are no signatures or particular marks.  They are quite heavy and all are 5½ inches tall (which I should have stated in the first place, sorry).

Stu.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: vidrioguapo on September 07, 2009, 02:34:06 PM

Well, I sincerely hope I am wrong, but they look very similar to those which were sold in the British Heart Foundation Charity shops, new stock,  a few years ago, which came in a few different colours and Flint too, and which are often on ebay as Whitefriars.  The BHF ones were quite nice quality and did have a shallow ground pontil mark if I remember correctly.

It's just an opinion, but odd to find three the same in one go.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 02:42:20 PM

No, that sounds about right to me.  If such things existed, then they are most likely to be just that.

 :hiclp: Well done me!

To be honest, they are amazing quality.  I would still love to know who made them.  I will sell them to a relative as Whitefriars for £5.  I paid £4.50 and it was a steep climb back home!

 :D

Thank you.

Stu.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: scimiman on September 07, 2009, 03:25:25 PM

I will sell them to a relative as Whitefriars for £5.  I paid £4.50

Why would you want to do that or are you just joking. Whitefriars they are not.
Mike

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 03:33:47 PM

Mike - I don't know how I could have made the joke any more obvious, especially as I mention ripping off a member of my own family! 

Is it just me, or is perhaps your reaction rather worrying...?

Stu.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: johnphilip on September 07, 2009, 03:37:21 PM

Hi Stu you forgot  ;) ;) ;) :thup:

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: scimiman on September 07, 2009, 04:10:23 PM

Its very difficult looking at the printed word and not knowing a persons charactor to judge what you actually meant and I did ask if you were joking.
Mike
PS there are plenty out there that would have done that.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 04:16:50 PM

Did I?  The emotic***s?  Sorry, yes, perhaps so.

Maybe I'm a bit snappy today.  

I'm going to sell them as Iittala to my Dad.

Stu.

Oops, sorry,  ;) ;) :thup: but not  >:D

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 04:22:33 PM

Hi Mike

Sorry, just caught your reply, and I agree there are so many who would.

I am going to make a generalisation now, but it seems like everyone who is knowingly selling Whitefriars at my local car boot sale is a low-life.  I suppose it stands to reason that anyone who can't sell a genuine WF item on the internet (where it would make more money anyway) is rather low. 

That may have been too general.   ;D

No offence taken and I hope none caused.  I also agree about the written word.

Stu.

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Carolyn Preston on September 07, 2009, 06:26:11 PM

Emoticons man, that's what life is all about.  :chky:

Carolyn

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: vidrioguapo on September 07, 2009, 06:59:28 PM

Don't be too rash, just in case someone comes along to tell you they are rare Ittalla or something..........my above post was just an observation and it is always more difficult to see a vase that is without colour, the texture is hard to capture. Emmi

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: Tinker-Taylor on September 07, 2009, 07:29:36 PM

Thanks Emmi.  Emmi from WF?  Must be.

Are they Whitefriars?   ;)

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: vidrioguapo on September 07, 2009, 10:15:20 PM

 ;)That's me,  and no, not WF. Emmi

Title: Re: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)
Post by: scimiman on September 07, 2009, 10:16:36 PM

Hi Stu.
No offence taken.
Happy hunting
Mike