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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Unresolved Glass Queries => Topic started by: kimanded on September 28, 2009, 11:13:41 PM
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hi all this is another one of our car boot finds at the weekend. a decanter.
its 10 inches high any id on this would be great thanks kim & ed :)
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Kim & Ed — Most, if not all the major glassworks in the UK, together with at least one in Europe, made the Thistle pattern, simply because it had been around for a very long time, and there was always a demand for replacements. I can't tell from your photographs whether it is cut or mould-blown. If cut, and it's not been overpolished by acid, you will find faint striations on the cut surfaces. As you may have realised, the stopper is not the original.
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Bernard C. 8)
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Bernard C. 8)
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hi thanks bernard c for info so far. the decanter is mould- blown.
we did think it was the thistle pattern. style. shame its not :cry:
we have put another picture on hope this is a little better in the day light. kim & ed :)
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Kim & Ed — It is the Thistle pattern, however it was made. These mould blown decanters are generally known as cordial decanters, and many are marked with a registration number, pre-WWI by German glassworks or importers, later by factors such as Lang, giving no clue as to their originating glassworks, but probably somewhere in eastern Europe. A reasonable collection can be built up quite cheaply, much like Avons. While many had a stopper designed to match the decanter, a good number came with a standard "cooking" stopper design.
Bernard C. 8)