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Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard? Part ID: Swedish
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 06:56:52 AM

Okay, so I recently said I'd not buy any more decanters....  :oops:  ...but I got snagged by its quirky charms. Is it likely to be mid-late 19th century Holmegaard?

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/dogdecanter.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/dogdecanter2.jpg)

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Ivo on March 23, 2006, 07:08:12 AM

If it had blue eyes it would be Holmegaard, but the eyes are clear so it is from Aalborgs Glasverk, 1885.  It is called a "Fyldehund".

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 07:10:08 AM

Thank you very much.  :)

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 07:31:46 AM

There's a whole strange world of animal-shaped decanters out there, I just noticed!

Would the Holmegaard Fyldehund have had eyes like this piggy decanter (or Snapsegris, apparently)?

(http://www.meisner-glas.dk/Priser/Fuldehund1.jpg)

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Ivo on March 23, 2006, 08:11:56 AM

Correct, those are the eyes, my friend. @ Holmegaard they call it a "Braendevingris" and that one has been in production for a very long time so  dating is difficult.

p.s. Swine and mutt decanters are the only ones.

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 08:15:49 AM

I'll have to keep a watch out for its blue-eyed canine companion.  :D

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 23, 2006, 09:12:39 AM

:D:shock::D

Thank you for identifying this "thingy"!

I had always thought these were friggers, and were for catching wasps!
 :oops: :oops: :oops:

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 09:39:08 AM

Quote from: "Ivo"

Correct, those are the eyes, my friend. @ Holmegaard they call it a "Braendevingris" and that one has been in production for a very long time so  dating is difficult.

How long were the dog ones in production? I stumbled across a snippet of information which suggests 1850-1890...

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Connie on March 23, 2006, 10:11:12 AM

Those are very cool!

 Is that a hole in the chest of the first decanter?  If so I am asuming that is for filling with either ice or hot water to maintain the temperature of the beverage.

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 23, 2006, 10:33:33 AM

It's an applied button. Not quite sure why it's there.

Title: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Connie on March 23, 2006, 10:41:21 AM

On weel, so much for that idea.  In the one picture it looked like a hole on the outside with a hollow tube running down the middle  :oops:

Title: Re: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 29, 2008, 11:09:38 AM

Ah, turns out this one is Swedish. Spotted another one, completely identical, with a very old-looking Made In Sweden label and an even older-looking cork stopper with metal ring - so probably c.1920s-30s in date.

A small note on the Holmegaard fyldehund / snapsehund decanters: They produced them with both clear and coloured eyes, and with straight legs, rather than the looped legs seen above. Production appears to have started no earlier than 1920.

They re-issued both the pigs and the dogs in the mid-late 1970s, both with clear eyes only. From what I've ascertained, these newer ones were only available direct from the factory, as they don't appear in the catalogues. They're distinguishable from the originals by dint of a signature - 'HG' +a single digit year code.

Attached example is from 1977.

Title: Re: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard?
Post by: Cathy B on August 30, 2008, 02:17:50 AM

Quote from: Ivo on March 23, 2006, 07:08:12 AM

If it had blue eyes it would be Holmegaard, but the eyes are clear so it is from Aalborgs Glasverk, 1885.  It is called a "Fyldehund".

Ivo, excuse a daft question, but is Aalborgs Glasverk Swedish? If it were, the label would be consistent with your original identification.

Title: Re: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard? Part ID: Swedish
Post by: Ivo on August 30, 2008, 06:04:46 AM

Not so daft but not true, alas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalborg

Title: Re: A Very Queer Decanter - Possibly C19 Holmegaard? Part ID: Swedish
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 30, 2008, 06:12:54 AM

Aalborg Glassworks was Danish, as Ivo says, and ran from 1852 - 1922.