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Title: This pedestal sugar looks like an 1897 Reijmyre version, please help with I.D.
Post by: nick.a on June 07, 2015, 03:16:05 PM

Hi,
Browsing once again through the excellent Glas-Musterbuch site I came across this: http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Reijmyre-1897.165+B6YmFja1BJRD0xNjUmcHJvZHVjdElEPTY5MTMmcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9MTY1JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html (third row, pattern no. 1942 ) which I think may be an I.D for my pedestal sugar pictured below. I would appreciate your opinions and/or confirmation/refutation of my impression.
Kind regards
Nick

Title: Re: This pedestal sugar looks like an 1897 Reijmyre version, please help with I.D.
Post by: Paul S. on June 08, 2015, 07:45:41 AM

hi nick  -  your pix are good by the way.

I can see the design similarity, and am sure Pamela will know one way or the other, but for me, the profile of your foot  -  an upturned bowl shape  -  is the one aspect that looks to differ quite a lot from the catalogue.             Of course, there may have been some difference or change of shape when actually produced.

Title: Re: This pedestal sugar looks like an 1897 Reijmyre version, please help with I.D.
Post by: nick.a on June 08, 2015, 07:14:06 PM

Hi Paul,
Thanks as usual for your views, my photo's of clear glass are gradually improving with practice.
I agree about the foot, the picture shows the foot tapering all the way to the base. My sugar has a taper that finishes almost vertically from the concave circles to the base, making it like an upturned bowl as you say. I hope someone out there knows if this was a change to aid production or if this isn't the same sugar. It certainly looks the same in almost every other way, enough for me to ask the question anyway.
Kind regards
Nick