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Title: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.
Post by: brucebanner on February 11, 2015, 08:18:38 PM

Any thoughts on this one, I have looked everywhere.

5 1/2 inches across the rim and 2 inches in height.

Regards Chris.

Title: Re: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.
Post by: Ivo on February 11, 2015, 10:49:49 PM

Piano foot?

Title: Re: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.
Post by: nick.a on February 11, 2015, 11:55:11 PM

Hi Chris,
It bears some similarities to this; http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MID-CENTURY-GREEN-AVOCADO-YELLOW-GOLD-MINIATURE-VASE-ALTAGLASS-MINT-/271226300721 , which I've also seen described as an ashtray/ trinket dish.
Regards
Nick

Title: Re: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 12, 2015, 07:18:58 AM

Not a piano foot and not pressed I suspect, though a mould has been used

Title: Re: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.
Post by: brucebanner on February 12, 2015, 10:02:03 AM

The dish in the link looks almost the same apart from the colour, thanks for your help all.

Title: Re: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.
Post by: Ekimp on August 12, 2020, 01:54:31 PM

There is a larger version of this here: https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,67193.msg374654.html#msg374654 (which is mine). It is blue and has more lobes but the same textured base.

In this thread: https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,35604.msg193217.html#msg193217 there is another one of a similar size to yours but with a ground base and circle in the bottom inside. That one, matches a labeled Altaglass (Canada) example. Earlier in that thread, Ivo mentions Empoli or Altare or from Spain as possible makers for this sort of thing.

I think Chalet glass Canada is a good possibility as some of their baskets and bowls look very similar, with similar textured bases, but tend to have pinched tabs protruding around the edge. Or possibly a version from Altaglass, unfortunately the link from nick.a is dead so can’t see how close that one was.