Topic: Three Bark Vases (just picked up from a charity shop)

[Tinker-Taylor]

Hello All

Does anyone have an idea who made these 3 please?  I though I might be getting Iittala lucky again, but don't know.

Thanks in advance.

Stu.

[jonchellycain]

Hi there
i may be sending you in the worng direction, but ive seen similar etched Dartington. Can you pop a picture of the base on and is there any marks anywhere?
michelle

[Tinker-Taylor]

Hi Michelle

Thank you for coming back on this one.

All the bases have a slightly recessed circle but not like a polished pontil or anything, just a shallow round dip which is quite wide, and the grain is like concentric circles similar to those I have seen on certain Dartington decanters.  There are no signatures or particular marks.  They are quite heavy and all are 5½ inches tall (which I should have stated in the first place, sorry).

Stu.

[vidrioguapo]

Well, I sincerely hope I am wrong, but they look very similar to those which were sold in the British Heart Foundation Charity shops, new stock,  a few years ago, which came in a few different colours and Flint too, and which are often on ebay as Whitefriars.  The BHF ones were quite nice quality and did have a shallow ground pontil mark if I remember correctly.

It's just an opinion, but odd to find three the same in one go.

[Tinker-Taylor]

No, that sounds about right to me.  If such things existed, then they are most likely to be just that.

 :hiclp: Well done me!

To be honest, they are amazing quality.  I would still love to know who made them.  I will sell them to a relative as Whitefriars for £5.  I paid £4.50 and it was a steep climb back home!

 

Thank you.

Stu.

[scimiman]

I will sell them to a relative as Whitefriars for £5.  I paid £4.50

Why would you want to do that or are you just joking. Whitefriars they are not.
Mike

[Tinker-Taylor]

Mike - I don't know how I could have made the joke any more obvious, especially as I mention ripping off a member of my own family! 

Is it just me, or is perhaps your reaction rather worrying...?

Stu.

[johnphilip]

Hi Stu you forgot  :thup:

[scimiman]

Its very difficult looking at the printed word and not knowing a persons charactor to judge what you actually meant and I did ask if you were joking.
Mike
PS there are plenty out there that would have done that.

[Tinker-Taylor]

Did I?  The emotic***s?  Sorry, yes, perhaps so.

Maybe I'm a bit snappy today.  

I'm going to sell them as Iittala to my Dad.

Stu.

Oops, sorry,   :thup: but not