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Author Topic: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina  (Read 1081 times)

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Offline quince21

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Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
« on: June 06, 2012, 01:00:24 PM »
Hello - Can anyone identify this unusual vase? It's a lovely shade of blue with green and has a 'squashed' appearance. Approx 10cms tall. Rather heavy. Thanks  :)

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Mdina. 1970s.
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Missing a stopper - but many are. When pieces were sold, stoppers were an optional extra, quite apart from some which must have gone astray.

Nice wee lumps. ;D
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Offline Elizabeth1212

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I have exactly the same one. ;D

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Offline chopin-liszt

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It will be slightly different, Elizabeth (hello and welcome!) - they're all hand-made, so the strapping will be the "same but different" - and there will be different colours in different places. Each individual piece is unique.

You may be able to pick up a single stopper - they do appear on ebay. They were not made to fit perfectly - they tend to just sort of sit on top of the flange. The correct colour would be a teal-blue core, with some yellow bits, cased in clear.
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Offline Elizabeth1212

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I am sorry, you are absolutely right.
What I meant was the shape, mine has more of a  greenish/blueish hue.

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Eeeek! No apologies needed  :o .....
I was simply hoping to point this out to you in case you hadn't already known.  :)
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Re: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2012, 08:56:18 AM »
Many thanks - you folks are awesome :)

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Re: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2012, 10:08:12 AM »
A pic of one with a stopper.
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Re: Unusual blue green 'squashed' vase or bottle? ID = Mdina
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2012, 10:27:02 AM »
Methinks I'll hunt for a stopper! I'm selling off some of my glass (running out of space...) but can't bear to part with the blue pieces!!!  :-*

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