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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ivo on November 05, 2013, 02:03:15 PM
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Ha! I thought, an easy one. Let's check Gullaskruf, Elme, Empoli. So far to no avail.
The glass is blue, it is 52 cms (21") tall and has three large dimples in the side - four if you count the bottom which is shaped just like another dimple.
Does anyone recognise it?
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It's a new one on me, Ivo.
I do pay a fair bit of attention to all bottles this sort of shape, and I've not seen one like this before.
The rim is a very odd shape - a bit thick and "mass-produced-looking" - unlike the bottom part, which looks less "mass-produced".
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On this side of the pond I've seen a couple of those attributed to Blenko, but I don't think it is. I would have thought Empoli as well. Empoli often gets misidentified as Blenko here. Is there any evidence of once having a stopper?
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Defo not the type for a thtopper - the neck has an inside diameter of 1. 1/4 ". Perhaps a hanging ball stopper could be imagined - but this is no decanter, so why bother?> It is hand made, the whole thing is relatively thinwalled. I went through the Blenko documents but did not see anything similar. Still in the dark - and in the rain as it happens.
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Rain here as well, hopefully not highly radioactive.
Is there a raw pontil scar in the center of the bottom depression?
The reason I asked about stoppers are decorative decanters similar to these: (I've had similar with large openings and stoppers.)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tall-Blenko-Empoli-Pinch-Bottle-Art-Glass-Decanter-Stopper-Mid-Century-/400313570475?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d348c54ab&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tall-Blenko-Empoli-Pinch-Bottle-Art-Glass-Decanter-Stopper-Mid-Century-/400313570475?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d348c54ab&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101)
Ran across this one that looks somewhat similar to yours:Three side dmiples but I can't tell if it has a bottom dimple or not. Regardless of the sellers attribution I don't think that one is Blenko, and if it were Blenko it wouldn't likely be Winslow Anderson. Or maybe it is. I may check some catalogs this evening.
http://www.modernabode.com/G026.html (http://www.modernabode.com/G026.html)
GLWTS
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Hey good info thank you! The green one seems to be related....
The bottom depression has no pontil mark, just a large dimple like the ones in the side.