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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: firebird on February 24, 2014, 07:51:03 PM
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Can anybody help me ID this bud vase. Stands 18cm high and weighs 1.4kg. It appears purple in normal light but changes to a greeny blue under neon lights. I thought it might be Orrefors as I can find similar but not exactly the same shape attributed to that company.
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I can't help on the id but if it changes colour then it is neodymium glass.
Using that in a search may help, but if not hopefully someone will be along who recognises the shape.
Very pretty vase.
m
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Many thanks. Every bit of info is helpful.
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I think it is most likely not Orrefors. The more recent pieces have an etched Orrefors mark. Before that they had a scratch marking of 'Of' if they were very small, 'Orrefors' otherwise and often a designer code and design number.
eg. Orrefors PA 1345/23 would be interpreted as Orrefors made it, P = Sven Palmquist (the designer), A= engraved, 1345 = design number, 23 = colour combination or if engraved might represent the engraving pattern number.
I assume it has no markings and that makes me think more of Bohemia as they did quite a bit of neodymium glass. There seems two be two distinct colours near flourescent lights - your Greenish tinge and a clear pale blue.
Ross
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Picking up on Ross's suggestion of possible Bohemian glass
http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/alexandrite_glass/neodymium_glass.htm
Zelezny Brod Sklo did make neodymium glass and your piece looks as though in shape, that it 'could' come from them.
They might be worth searching for.
m
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Many thanks for your replies. I have reached the same conclusion regarding Zelezny Brod Sklo. Still looking for the exact shape which is a bit unusual.