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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: colink on September 29, 2010, 06:50:54 PM
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Bought this on impulse on ebay it was advertised as by Fenton so is it? I have three books on carnival but cannot find it in any of them (maybe im not looking properly) :thup: :thup: many thanks
Colin
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC01010.jpg?t=1285785904
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC01011.jpg?t=1285785904
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC01013.jpg?t=1285785904
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae327/colink_photos/Carnival%20glass/DSC01014.jpg?t=1285785904
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Go to http://www.ddoty.com/ (http://www.ddoty.com/) and look at the Imperial Grape, he says it's been reproduced but to me your's looks more like the Imperial one. :huh:
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Fenton bought the moulds and marketed it as Grape Cluster in the 1970s. If it was Fenton it would be marked in an oval http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,29785.0.html or at least marked.
Imperial called it Heavy Grape. I think that shiny iridescence is typical Imperial
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Ah i see many thanks for the comments. :thup:
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Carnival glass added to subject to try and catch Glen's eye. :)
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I suspect that this is an "old" Imperial piece, c. 1910-15. Inspired by this Imperial pattern, Fenton created its own mould/plunger for a similar piece in the early 1970s and called it Grape Cluster, as some have noted here (we did not buy the Imperial mould then or at any other time; Imperial moulds were not sold until the 1980s liquidation).
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Many thanks to all for the information :thup: