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Title: Ship's decanter about 1912
Post by: Anne on October 23, 2009, 09:30:33 PM

I'm currently locating props for a play set in 1912, on a cruise liner (no not "that" one!) and we need a decanter which looks the part. 

Looking through the glass catalogues on Pamela's http://www.glas-musterbuch.de site I can't find anything which looks like the ship's decanter as we know it now (wide bottom type.)  Can anyone tell me when (approx) this style started to be made please?

And if they weren't around in 1912, what would be a likely type in use in the first class passenger lounge of a 1912 cruise ship?

Title: Re: Ship's decanter about 1912
Post by: pamela on October 23, 2009, 09:54:13 PM

http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/karaffen/03714.html

Anne
these are mould blown, marked Hermann Heye Hamburg (glass manufacturers, and Hamburg office could have supplied the cruise equipment ?)
The seller found them years ago in Indonesia where he had lived.

Just an idea  :angel:

Title: Re: Ship's decanter about 1912
Post by: Max on October 23, 2009, 10:30:35 PM

In Andy McConnell's book 'the decanter' he says the Ship's Decanter or 'Rodney' (named after Admiral Lord Rodney) was a popular form which was produced almost continuously in England between C1770-1930.  Early Rodneys had bases up to a foot wide (!!!) and some had as many as five neck rings.   :)

Title: Re: Ship's decanter about 1912
Post by: Anne on October 24, 2009, 05:58:37 PM

Thank you both so much :ghug:  that's really useful info and will help me find the right sort of decanter for this play.  :thup: