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Title: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: chriscooper on January 10, 2011, 05:31:31 PM

Help needed with this please, sorry the photos are even poorer than normal it never got light today :-[
No label no signature 6.5" high the base has a rippled effect, let me down gently if it's  :or:
Who was it who got me started with these pesky animals ::)

http://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/111#5560606593833643426

Thanks Chris

Title: Re: Glass Pelican? Murano maybe?
Post by: Nemmie on January 10, 2011, 06:01:02 PM

I think it's a Toucan.

Title: Re: Glass Pelican? Murano maybe?
Post by: rosieposie on January 10, 2011, 06:01:41 PM

 :24: Not me!!  :pb:

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: chriscooper on January 10, 2011, 06:14:23 PM

Thanks Nemmie course it's a Toucan :-[
Chris :sun:

Title: Re: Glass Pelican? Murano maybe?
Post by: chriscooper on January 10, 2011, 06:15:36 PM

Quote from: rosieposie on January 10, 2011, 06:01:41 PM

:24: Not me!!  :pb:

Yes you  :wsh:

Chris :sun:

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: rosieposie on January 10, 2011, 06:34:12 PM

Oh!  :o   Sorry Chris!!  :'(

I think it is Murano, not  :or:, I think it is quality,  :X:, I think it is probably made by a really famous glass house!  :sun:

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: Tim on January 10, 2011, 06:54:05 PM

Hmmm...are you sure it's a Toucan, I think your all wrong, it looks more like a Pelican to me...

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: Lustrousstone on January 10, 2011, 06:54:48 PM

It's a pelican. Toucans don't have pouched beaks and pelicans do have a bit of a crest.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: palo400 on January 10, 2011, 07:11:59 PM

Looks like a Dodo to me - do you own a 2lb lump hammer Chris and then you could make this extint ;D

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: palo400 on January 10, 2011, 07:13:38 PM

Extinct

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: johnphilip on January 10, 2011, 07:27:56 PM

Or perhaps a Threecan . :rah:

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: Nemmie on January 10, 2011, 07:50:34 PM

Never seen a Pelican with legs like that. They are Toucan legs. It must be a cross breed. Also I question that is a pouched beak and no Pelican I have ever seen has a crest like that.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: chriscooper on January 10, 2011, 07:57:14 PM

Did start as a Pelican, then after taking advice changed it to a toucan now I am not sure.
Nigel, bored with all the Scandinavian and Whitefriars stuff, much of a muchness seen one you've 'em all  :wsh:
A fourcan sounds more like it Jp :thup:
Chris

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: Nemmie on January 10, 2011, 08:00:38 PM

I have several glass animals that don't look like anything on this earth. A lot of artistic license is common so it could be anything. Trouble is once you get one they keep reproducing until you have a whole zoo.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: johnphilip on January 10, 2011, 08:43:11 PM

It could be the rare and elusive OOZALAM bird that flys around backwards in ever decreasing cirles until it flys up its own orifice, ....! soon to be extinct .

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: TxSilver on January 11, 2011, 01:12:23 AM

Heavy hand TxSilver here to discuss the bird itself. The bird has silver and the nice black feet that hint at Murano, but I'm not sure it is. It looks like it has some swirling of the glass on bottom, rather than being ground and polished. It may just be the way I'm looking at it. The application of the silver is different than most Murano pieces I've seen. I have no idea where this bird could have been made.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: TxSilver on January 11, 2011, 01:38:11 AM

I found your pelican at http://www.rikaro.com.au/cu.2_+_cu.1. It's a little different, but I believe it is the same maker. Rikaro is a mystery company to me. I'm not really sure if all their things are Czech, Oriental, or a mixture of the two. Rikaro is an Australian import company. I know many of their things are made in the Czech Republic. I believe other of their things are made in China.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: kane_u_pain on January 11, 2011, 03:54:53 AM

A lot of the Rikaro stuff is Japanese, Chinese and of course Czech. A larger percentage is Japanese though.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: TxSilver on January 11, 2011, 04:23:09 AM

Thanks for the information, Kane. I wasn't sure that Japan was one of the countries.

Title: Re: Glass Toucan? Murano maybe?
Post by: chriscooper on January 11, 2011, 11:54:59 PM

Thank you both just checked the link Anita that's it for me, so we can safely say it's not Murano, may Czech a strong possibility it's Japanese and just a slim chance it could be Chinese.
The base is rippled.
thanks again Chris :sun: