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Title: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Bernard C on March 20, 2010, 05:50:41 PM

(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10318/DSCF0857.jpg) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-12626)

Click image for gallery with three more photographs.

Height 3" 7.5cm, weight 7oz 203g.

Pontil scar ground out and left slightly matt.

Any ideas?

TIA Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Martyn K on March 20, 2010, 06:36:24 PM

looks like a pear to me....





...sorry not much help I realise.

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Bernard C on March 20, 2010, 06:53:58 PM

Martyn — Here's a pear (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11627), quite different!

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Martyn K on March 20, 2010, 07:24:11 PM

I take back my stupid comment Bernard, I can now see there is clearly no likeness to a pear at all....




....please ignore me, It's a bouy.  8)



Added...lovely wasp trap that BTW.

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: glassobsessed on March 20, 2010, 07:43:32 PM

Here's a buoy shaped pear (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,29063.0.html).  >:D

John

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: chriscooper on March 20, 2010, 07:54:51 PM

Quote from: glassobsessed on March 20, 2010, 07:43:32 PM

Here's a buoy shaped pear (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,29063.0.html).  >:D

John

Lets compromise a pear shaped buoy
Chris

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Bernard C on March 21, 2010, 12:31:32 AM

Thanks, everyone, for the enlightenment on pears.

And I'm sat sitting here, head bowed in shame, as I can't believe I did that.   I actually looked up "buoy" in Bryson's Troublesome Words as I was starting this topic, and it still came out "bouy".   :spls:

Ideas please on my pw/ornament, whatever it's called.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: obscurities on March 21, 2010, 01:09:11 AM

Personally, I have never seen a blue pear or a blue buoy,

but that is OK because it looks like an acorn to me... although be it blue, and I have never seen one of those either....  a blue acorn that is....

Craig



Sorry Bernard...I could not resist.....

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: langhaugh on March 21, 2010, 02:10:58 AM

Bernard:

I think that the problem is that not all glassblowers can look at the design for a pear and take it to practical fruition, so to speak.

If this didn't have a leaf and and a stem on it, I'd never have said it was a pear.

David

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Martyn K on March 21, 2010, 04:26:41 PM

Bernard,

Saw a similar pear 'object' today in red, same shape, bubbles and base finish with a very worn foil label to the base. Could just make out 'MRM' in script and 'Merchandise' below so guess it was an importers/retailers label. From the style of the label I would say 1950s.

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: buttonfluff on March 22, 2010, 07:17:19 AM

Hi i have a red "pear" very similar and was told it could be mount royal .

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: buttonfluff on March 22, 2010, 07:18:16 AM

MRM ,mount royal merchandise??

Title: Re: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please
Post by: Bernard C on March 22, 2010, 09:03:31 AM

Brilliant — grateful thanks!

GMB member tigerchips has a red apple (not without some controversy, see here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2636.0.html)) in his gallery here (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-123), so mine must be a blue pear, not a buoy, however it is spelled!

TC — Please would you drop by and fill in any gaps you can manage, such as dates, maker and location, &c.

btw there's a fair amount of wear on the thin flat base around the ground-out pontil scar, so it wasn't made yesterday.

TIA — Bernard C.  8)