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A Collection of Ten Vintage 'Ships in Bottles', each Modelled with Interior Scenes or Classic Ships made 1950s-1970s

A Collection of Ten Vintage 'Ships in Bottles', each Modelled with Interior Scenes or Classic Ships made 1950s-1970s

Regular price £600.00 GBP
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A collection of ten vintage 'ships in bottles', each modelled with interior scenes or classic ships made 1950s-1970s.  Faced with redundancy following the decline of heavy industry in the 1970s, highly skilled scientific glassblowers in the UK combined their experience making laboratory apparatus in an open flame with artistic flair to create and sell glass ships in bottles They are 21 cm diameter unless stated.  The price is for the collection but they are available individually for £65 each: 

Miniature Haig's Dimple "Ship-in-a-Bottle" 

Miniature  'Windmill and Church in a Bottle' inscribed and dated Chester 1977 on the base 

Miniature Haig's Dimple 'Soldiers Firing a Canon'  signed and dated 'Osborne 1973' on the base 

Miniature Haig's Dimple 'Charles Stuart Royal Yacht circa 1674' by BDH Osborne, Chester 1971

Miniature Haig's Dimple 'In the Photographer's Studio

Miniature Haig's Dimple 'The Gardener in a Bottle' made by BDH Osborne, 1970 

Miniature Haig's Dimple 'Penny Farthing in Bottle'

Miniature 'Train in a Bottle' on a wooden stand - 28 cm diameter

Miniature Haig's 'Street Artist in a Bottle' made by BDH Osborne, Chester 1978

Miniature Haig's Dimple 'Cutty Sark in a Bottle' 

 

 

 

 

 

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