Topic: Bouy-shaped controlled bubble hollow pw/ornament for id please

[Bernard C]

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Height 3" 7.5cm, weight 7oz 203g.

Pontil scar ground out and left slightly matt.

Any ideas?

TIA Bernard C.  

[Martyn K]

looks like a pear to me....





...sorry not much help I realise.

[Bernard C]

Martyn — Here's a pear, quite different!

Bernard C. 

[Martyn K]

I take back my stupid comment Bernard, I can now see there is clearly no likeness to a pear at all....




....please ignore me, It's a bouy.  



Added...lovely wasp trap that BTW.

[glassobsessed]

Here's a buoy shaped pear. 

John

[chriscooper]

Here's a buoy shaped pear. 

John

Lets compromise a pear shaped buoy
Chris

[Bernard C]

Thanks, everyone, for the enlightenment on pears.

And I'm sat sitting here, head bowed in shame, as I can't believe I did that.   I actually looked up "buoy" in Bryson's Troublesome Words as I was starting this topic, and it still came out "bouy".   :spls:

Ideas please on my pw/ornament, whatever it's called.

Bernard C. 

[obscurities]

Personally, I have never seen a blue pear or a blue buoy,

but that is OK because it looks like an acorn to me... although be it blue, and I have never seen one of those either....  a blue acorn that is....

Craig



Sorry Bernard...I could not resist.....

[langhaugh]

Bernard:

I think that the problem is that not all glassblowers can look at the design for a pear and take it to practical fruition, so to speak.

If this didn't have a leaf and and a stem on it, I'd never have said it was a pear.

David

[Martyn K]

Bernard,

Saw a similar pear 'object' today in red, same shape, bubbles and base finish with a very worn foil label to the base. Could just make out 'MRM' in script and 'Merchandise' below so guess it was an importers/retailers label. From the style of the label I would say 1950s.