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Title: Miniature Vase
Post by: cjones on March 27, 2016, 05:05:28 PM

This miniature vase is only 7Cm's high - 2Cm's at rim, 2.5Cm's base (smooth) 3.5Cm's widest diameter. Has swirls of white and blue - I would appreciate any help
Thank you

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 27, 2016, 05:10:56 PM

 :)
It looks very like Bimini to me. Is it very thin and lightweight?

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: cjones on March 27, 2016, 05:41:12 PM

It weighs 55 grams glass is quite thick

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 27, 2016, 06:03:23 PM

I'm better at ounces once we get above one gram.  ;D
(Grams and fractions of them are good for small measurments in labs - lousy for cooking or anything bigger.)

It still looks like a Bimini style, with the bulge in the neck, and seems to me to be very well made.
But I think we need a Bimini enthusiast to confirm or deny. :)

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: Ivo on March 27, 2016, 06:16:22 PM

55grams is 2 oz for the uninitiated.
I think you might want to look at Paşabahce too.

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: cjones on March 27, 2016, 06:22:27 PM

Thanks I'll do that

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 27, 2016, 06:41:48 PM

Sometimes an ounce is 28.something-that-goes-on-for-not-quite-as-long-as-pi grams;
other times it appears to be 32 grams.
I think it's somewhere inbetween those. It's never accurate. ;D
I can't think in multiples of grams. My brain is imperial.

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: pamela on March 27, 2016, 09:34:45 PM

Sue, many moons ago I posted copy of a page of my old Langenscheidt dictionary

 1 ounce Avoirdupois = 28,35 g and 1 ounce Troy = 31,1035 g   (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,21491.0.html)

 read about Avoirdupois and Troy here  (http://www.govmint.com/pages/troy-ounces-vs-avoirdupois-ounces)

I found it interesting that tea tasters like my husband still use the Troy pennyweight as measure for the amount of tea to brew for testing

 :-*

Title: Re: Miniature Vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 28, 2016, 12:37:27 PM

Fascinating, Pamela, thank-you!
How interesting to know a tea taster, far less be married to one. He will understand your fascination with nuances of differences between things! :)

But do we weigh glass in Troy or Avoirdupois?
Troy is for precious metals.  ;D