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Author Topic: Oddball bottle vase, half post, covered in frit. ID = Will Shakspeare  (Read 1983 times)

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Offline glassobsessed

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Re: Oddball bottle vase, half post, covered in frit.
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2011, 08:20:30 AM »
In an email reply Will Shakspeare confirmed that this is one of his vases and that it was made in around 1995. ;D

Isn't the t'internet a wonderful thing. :rah:

John
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Re: Oddball bottle vase, half post, covered in frit.
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2011, 08:57:23 AM »
Nice piece of glass when i first saw the pictures i was thinking nailsea or wrockwardine wood type bottle glass from 19th century untill i saw the base pictures then realised it was more recent production has a lot of character that vase nice one.
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Re: Oddball bottle vase, half post, covered in frit.
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2011, 12:30:27 PM »
I wondered about that too until I got my hands on it, then I realised the making was just a bit too complicated for that. You're right, it does have character. ;D

John
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