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Author Topic: Polish opaline/opalescent handkerchief vase for reference.  (Read 2396 times)

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Offline Ekimp

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Polish opaline/opalescent handkerchief vase for reference.
« on: April 02, 2024, 06:51:39 PM »
Actually originally sold as a tea light holder.

It has a Fiord TLH Opaline made in Poland label. I think it is probably made for LSA and TLH only stands for Tea Light Holder. There is a similar shaped clear one online described as Fiord LSA Tea Light Holder, that one is on a dead link so only visible in search results with not much information.

The base has a polished pontil mark that is elliptical rather than round, plus the base is polished flat. Cased in clear. About 3 inches tall.

I wonder how it would be described on eBay without the labels.
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Re: Polish opaline/opalescent handkerchief vase for reference.
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2024, 09:32:48 PM »
Very interesting, you may well have shed some light on this vase:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,72007.0.html

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Re: Polish opaline/opalescent handkerchief vase for reference.
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2024, 12:19:24 PM »
That’s good. I’ve scraped off the label to have a proper look at the pontil mark and it isn’t ground and polished as I had thought, it is more like you describe the depression on your piece. Around the edges of the depression it looks very like a polished pontil mark, but in the middle, there is some surface texture like it’s been moulded or heat treated in some way.
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Re: Polish opaline/opalescent handkerchief vase for reference.
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2024, 08:42:32 AM »
They do look to be from the same stable, hopefully some more examples will pop up over time.

 

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