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Title: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: chrisffc on September 08, 2010, 12:08:31 PM
Hi all
Please could you confirm colour and pattern number of bud vase tear drop. Much appreciated as always :) Chris
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: ahremck on September 08, 2010, 12:51:37 PM
It looks rather like it may be neodymium(Alexandrite) glass.  If you hold it near a flourescent tube does it raemain pale amethyst of turn to pale blue or pale green - if so it is neodymium glass.  As far as I am aware WF did not do Neodymium objects.  It would then probably be Czeck or Murano.  Also from a rusty memory I feel that vases of this shape were always coated with an thick, clear, outer layer.

Ross
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: chrisffc on September 08, 2010, 01:02:38 PM
Hi ahremck
It does change colour to a pale blue. That was putting me off it being Whitefriars as well as i can't remember seeing anything of there's which does this. So Murano or Czech hmmm I will keep looking around the web. Thanks for the info :)
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 08, 2010, 01:33:20 PM
I think it's Caithness; shape and colour look right.
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: johnphilip on September 08, 2010, 01:49:57 PM
I agree with Christine .
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: ahremck on September 08, 2010, 01:56:47 PM
What's a few hundred kilometres between factories?  Wish they all marked everythin properly and save us so much grief.

Ross
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: chrisffc on September 08, 2010, 04:48:02 PM
It really would help.
Come on all you glass producers label your stuff!!! :)
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 08, 2010, 06:47:17 PM
It probably was labelled originally.
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: vidrioguapo on September 08, 2010, 09:12:39 PM
I am sure it is Caithness too, the shape is not Whitefriars nor the colour.
Title: Re: Help with colour and pattern number Whitefriars please
Post by: Anne on September 09, 2010, 12:11:27 AM
My thinking, for what it's worth is Caithness also. :)