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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: I love all Glass on February 11, 2011, 12:58:54 AM
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Hello everyone, I am a new member please be kind. I have this very nice Sommerso ashtray, the gold is lovely. It measures 15cm across and 6cm tall and a heavy .823kg in weight. Any clue to a maker? It is a real stunner to look at, all ideas gratefully received. Thanks Simon
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Hi and Welcome :rah:
Lovely ashtray -- I am leaning (guessing) towards Czech Glass ?? -- but sometimes I lean too far over, and fall right off the Map.....
So I am sure others like be able to give you a better, positive ID.
Again Welcome, you will Enjoy it here!! :hi:
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Hi welcome , i hope its from a smoke free home ...! :ha: :hi:
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A nicely made ashtray. I don't think it's Czech, at least not Skrdlovice, Chribska or Harrachov, as the rim is wrong. The rim also rules out Afors, from Sweden, which made a similar type of ashtray. I don't think it's sommerso, strictly speaking. There are many glassworks who have made something like this. However, the flat rim combined with the hot-worked lumpy bottom make it quite distinctive so I think you'll be able to id it at some point.
Welcome to the board and, don't worry, you'll soon learn to appreciate johnphillip.
David
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It's nice... style points towards 50s to 70s. Can't pin it to a country, I'm afraid. If not Czech, it could be German, but with the flowing lines it might also hail from for instance Belgium. I hope others can help you further along.
Astrid
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Hello Simon,
The ashtray is not Czech (in my humble opinion)... it's also not hotworked. I've got the same item, and the lines and shape are perfectly symmetrical -- my impression is that it's pressed.
Maybe someone will recognise it. Here is my ashtray...
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Moulded certainly, perhaps not pressed, as that's not so easy with two colours. And definitely not sommerso; just two colours.
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Anik:
Fascinating. You've got me peering and and pondering. The different angles create very different impressions. Moulded or pressed would explain the rim. Is the base of your one flat?
David
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Ah, thank you, Christine... moulded. :)
David, the base flows with the body, so not exactly flat.
Not to dampen Simon's enthusiasm for the piece, I wasn't as impressed with it... there is something about how the yellow and clear come together which I find strange, though please don't ask me to explain. :-\
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May be Val St Lambert?
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I would expect Val St Lambert to be marked. My thought was it could be Japanese. If it is free of bubbles I would think it likely to be Japanese - and they always seemed to have paper stickers.
Ross
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I thought this was interesting... an ebay seller has got a very similar bowl which he/she attributes to 'Sklo Union' : http://cgi.ebay.pl/Sklo-Union-Dreieck-Schale-Modern-Design-Bohemia-60ies-/370240320970?pt=Glas_Kristall&hash=item56340af5ca
I really think not. :spls:
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I think not also. Definitely not Sklo Union, because Sklo Union is always pressed.
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I had a very similar bowl to this a while ago, a slightly different design and the contrasting colour was blue rather than amber, but I think it could have been from the same source. The bowl was definitely pressed and the colour seemed to have been fired on. I always suspected it was Walther Driburg.
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Hello, and thanks to all for ideas, keep them coming, lots of things I didnt think of, very useful indeed.
Again thanks for your info and you time. Cheers Simon
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The bowl was definitely pressed and the colour seemed to have been fired on. I always suspected it was Walther Driburg.
That would explain my initial impression of the yellow being somehow 'painted' into the glass. :-X Steven, I think you're right with the Walther Driburg attribution...