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Title: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: dirk. on June 23, 2011, 12:14:36 PM: Mmmh, might be a great crested grebe though... ;D
Anyone recognise this mark?

The dish is made of uranium glass with some blue and red blobs.
It´s ca. 22,5cm / 9" tall

TIA
Dirk (aka dirk.)
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Anik R on June 23, 2011, 02:17:01 PM: Dirk, no offence intended -- honestly -- but what the heck did you post? Normally you've got great taste in glass, and a truly enviable collection... suddenly you come up with a mutant bird-bowl thingy. (http://serve.mysmiley.net/confused/confused0067.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net)

:kissy:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: keith on June 23, 2011, 04:31:14 PM: :24: :24:sorry Dirk,Anik it's not that bad,I've got worse! :pb:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: dirk. on June 23, 2011, 04:37:19 PM: :24: ;D :24:
Really no offense taken!
We´re totally d´accord about it, Anik - it´s one of the most ugly things I´ve ever bought.
My intentions were: it was cheap, it´s uranium (it will be resaleable) and it´s got a mark
and so it offers the opportunity to (l)earn something.
Be assured I´ve not been brain-washed in the meantime... :sm:

edit: Mmmh @Keith, is that possible? Hope we don´t offend the beast fraction here... :pb:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Anik R on June 23, 2011, 04:58:42 PM: Keith and Dirk, you're both too funny... and scary... (http://serve.mysmiley.net/sad/sad0043.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net)
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: keith on June 23, 2011, 07:07:36 PM: :o :thud: :pb:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 23, 2011, 07:16:38 PM: I've got a contender in the tasteless birds stakes
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=498
No idea who made Dirk's though. My place guess would be Murano
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Anik R on June 23, 2011, 07:32:39 PM: Keith, are you sure that's supposed to be a bird? It looks more like a weirdo snail that has been partially run over by a lorry... several times... at different speeds. Gosh, that IS ugly.

Christine, your pigeon isn't all that bad, though I've never been able to understand why some glassmakers put their animals on little pedestals... :spls:. That alone makes a piece ugly in my eyes. Anyway, I think your birdy would make a passable soap dish. :)

Dirk, sorry for turning your thread into an ugly bird contest, although I find it highly entertaining... I do hope someone will help you with the mark. :kissy:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: dirk. on June 23, 2011, 08:07:46 PM: It´s a tactic I sometimes use in conversations, when they get stuck.
Tell something really embarassing about yourself and you´ll break the ice and
encourage others to carry on.
Although not intended in the first place this seems to work with ugly finds as
well - fascinating.... ;D
We could start a competition with our bestiary and create fictional speech
balloons for them?

See - I´m not too passionate about this item... Nonetheless - this mark is quite
distinctive and it should be identifiable.
Christine, thanks for your suggestion! I was thinking along that lines, too, but
I can´t recall any maker from there using impressed marks...
Let´s wait and see...
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 24, 2011, 06:27:35 AM: Actually I rather like him Dirk (there are far worse out there), but I've never seen that mark either.
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 24, 2011, 09:02:07 AM: Keith's beast is not a bird - it's the Loch Ness monster. :sc: :sc: :sc:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 24, 2011, 11:20:35 AM: And I've found Christine's dead pigeon's brother. (finished auction - images won't last)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120737935539&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Max on June 24, 2011, 06:29:05 PM: That's Javier's dead pigeon brother if you don't mind! :girlcheer: ;)
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 24, 2011, 06:38:24 PM: Ummm, I thought that was simply Javier's dead pigeon Max :kissy: - it's his dead pigeon that is Christine's dead pigeon's brother. I'm positive they must be related.
(the dead pigeons, not Javier and Christine)

:spls: :spls: :spls:
(I was doing well remembering the image :rah: - remembering whose it was was well beyond me once "Svazzo" was no longer in front of me - short-term memory problems :ooh: )
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: dirk. on July 11, 2011, 02:25:30 PM: I´ve done a bit of further investigation - still to no avail....
Do you think it would be worth moving the beast to the Murano forum?

Alas, no ID and no chance to win the ugly award either... boohoo :cry:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Anik R on July 11, 2011, 02:45:23 PM: Aw, Dirk... (http://serve.mysmiley.net/love/love0085.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net)
If it makes you feel any better, I still think your swan is pretty ugly. It's just that Keith's is a wee bit uglier.

I really do hope someone will help you with the mark. :X:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: dirk. on July 11, 2011, 03:08:07 PM: The story of my life... always only second ugliest... :24:
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Anik R on July 11, 2011, 03:45:43 PM: ... and perfectly wonderful! (http://serve.mysmiley.net/angel/jesus.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net)
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: keith on July 11, 2011, 04:02:53 PM: The story of my life,only first...? Hey hang on, what??? :pb: :pb: :pb: :o
Title: Re: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?
Post by: Anik R on July 11, 2011, 04:43:00 PM: ... It means you're king, Keith! (http://serve.mysmiley.net/happy/happy0029.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net/free-fighting-smileys.php)