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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ivo on November 28, 2011, 03:41:55 PM
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Here is a dark brown tile 15x15 cm = 6x6". There is a groove on three parts of the edge . Number 4 is smooth. Any suggestions as to what on earth it may be?
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looking at the rim area, could it actually be a plinth for a vase?
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Thank you for that suggestion but then the decoorat ion makes little sense. I found 5 of these and bought 1 to id - so a nest of plinths seems unlikely.
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmm you got me then. Maybe a coaster?
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For a coaster it is huge and heavy. And I think the grooves around it make it slot into something - perhaps a wire frame of sorts, to make a panel. Or something architectural. I just cannot see how.
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Do all 5 have the same grooving (pic and shape/size of groove) the size is a standard tile size. Architectural seems likely, motif does not suggest very old. Perhaps face of a planter or window box, which would only need 3 grooves. What is the back like? Cast or moulded.
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no idea but to me it looks like they should slot into or slide down into a frame or holder with the side that isn't grooved being uppermost. Franks window box sounds a possible. Are they translucent at all? They look quite opaque (just wondering about some sort of lighting perhaps ).
m
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They are very dark brown - I would say this is beerbottle brown and a candle behind would not cheer you up. As far as I remember the grooves are not all in the same direction to the design = some are horizntal, some vertical and some sideways L/R.
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so they might surround 'something' in the middle, some tiles being slotted sideways l-r or r-l, some being slotted down from the top some from the bottom up. Some firescreen type thing?
m
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Really need detail on all the grooves per tile. Are the grooves cut, squared bottom etc?
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I'm being particularly dense here ::) I assumed when you said 'grooves' you meant the edges of the tiles as we could see them i.e. moulded 'soft' grooves, I just assumed the top edge on your pic was flat as I could see it - do you mean there is one long cut in groove/slot all down the edges of each tile (apart from edge 4)? Please could we see a pic if so? Thanks
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Could this possibly be a thought?
http://www.aceglassandmirrors.co.uk/16.html#
Scroll down to the bottom of the first page and click on next, then scroll half way down again, there is a tile edged mirror on the RHS.
Rosie.
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Hey very good suggestion, thank you.
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Glass Tile for decoration in the loo, or kitchen -- or something -- because it looks like it has to butt up to another since it has a groove in it????
??? Other than that I have no idea ??
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So moulded groove, meaning not straight forwards production. I would assume that whatever it was a part of was damaged and what you got was the salvageable tiles. Knowing the groove structure of each piece might give a better clue to purpose. As none have for sided grooves that would imply edging and any corner tiles would need only two grooves on adjacent edges.