Glass Message Board

Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: quince21 on June 06, 2012, 01:00:24 PM

Title: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
Post by: quince21 on June 06, 2012, 01:00:24 PM

Hello - Can anyone identify this unusual vase? It's a lovely shade of blue with green and has a 'squashed' appearance. Approx 10cms tall. Rather heavy. Thanks  :)

Title: Re: Does anyone recognise this unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle?
Post by: Nemmie on June 06, 2012, 01:11:52 PM

Mdina. 1970s.

Title: Re: Does anyone recognise this unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 06, 2012, 01:51:46 PM

Missing a stopper - but many are. When pieces were sold, stoppers were an optional extra, quite apart from some which must have gone astray.

Nice wee lumps. ;D

Title: Re: Does anyone recognise this unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle?
Post by: Elizabeth1212 on June 06, 2012, 02:35:45 PM

I have exactly the same one. ;D

Title: Re: Does anyone recognise this unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 06, 2012, 04:48:01 PM

 ;D
It will be slightly different, Elizabeth (hello and welcome!) - they're all hand-made, so the strapping will be the "same but different" - and there will be different colours in different places. Each individual piece is unique.

You may be able to pick up a single stopper - they do appear on ebay. They were not made to fit perfectly - they tend to just sort of sit on top of the flange. The correct colour would be a teal-blue core, with some yellow bits, cased in clear.

Title: Re: Does anyone recognise this unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle?
Post by: Elizabeth1212 on June 06, 2012, 04:57:31 PM

I am sorry, you are absolutely right.
What I meant was the shape, mine has more of a  greenish/blueish hue.

 :)

Title: Re: Does anyone recognise this unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 06, 2012, 05:02:26 PM

Eeeek! No apologies needed  :o .....
I was simply hoping to point this out to you in case you hadn't already known.  :)

Title: Re: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
Post by: quince21 on June 07, 2012, 08:56:18 AM

Many thanks - you folks are awesome :)

Title: Re: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 07, 2012, 10:08:12 AM

A pic of one with a stopper.

Title: Re: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
Post by: quince21 on June 07, 2012, 10:27:02 AM

Methinks I'll hunt for a stopper! I'm selling off some of my glass (running out of space...) but can't bear to part with the blue pieces!!!  :-*