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Title: Fingerprint Bowl?
Post by: Kimmienemo on September 22, 2012, 03:51:16 PM

Another bowl.  It looks like another one that I have (a Fenton), but this one has no makers mark. 

Any ideas?  Reproduction?

Title: Re: Fingerprint Bowl?
Post by: wendy177 on September 22, 2012, 04:14:20 PM

Fenton thumbprint ruffled & crimped edge amber bowl

Title: Re: Fingerprint Bowl?
Post by: Kimmienemo on September 22, 2012, 04:19:52 PM

Thanks, Wendy!  How can I tell (when I don't have you to help), if they are Fenton if they aren't stamped?  Were there other companies/artists that made bowls like this?

Title: Re: Fingerprint Bowl?
Post by: bigwull on September 22, 2012, 04:48:27 PM

take your pick...Tiffin also made thumbprint glass


http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=thumbprint+glass&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=kj5eUJDbE-rR0QWTg4G4Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CFwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=675

Title: Re: Fingerprint Bowl?
Post by: wendy177 on September 22, 2012, 09:03:17 PM

Many companies made many of the same patterns but with slight differences that you must look at every detail on a piece, Fenton may have done a ruffled edge with a double crimp while Tiffin may have done a ruffled edge only, or one did a plain bottom while another did a star bottom. One may have 6 panels while another may have 5. Also not all companies did the same colors, Books, keep hanging around here and  You will pick it all up in time  ;)