Featured I need help with a Blenko console bowl please.

I picked this up at the GW this week.

I do know it was made sometime between 2000 and the present because of the sticker.

It is 11" across & is 2 1/4" to the side edge.

The bottom is polished flat & does have some shelf wear so I don't think it is brand new.

Any information as to a specific artist or perhaps a shape name or number would be very much appreciated.



Thanks for any & all advice or opinions!!

 

The closest I can find is the 789P Peggy but it is listed as a 9" in the 2001 catalog
Blenko Glass Catalog 2001.pdf - Google Drive
Blenko Glass Catalogs – Blenko Glass Company
Click on the decade to see the yearly catalogs

 

Peggy, There are a couple of good Blenko groups on FB that should be able to pin it down for you. From the Blenko 4 website it appears as if the 2000 labels also had the website?
Blenko Marks (blenkocollectors.com)
BLENKO GLASS COLLECTORS | Groups | Facebook
BLENKO Glass Groupies | Groups | Facebook
Blenko Glass | Facebook

 

@*crs* - Thank you so much!!

I totally forgot about the catalogs online.

I will have a look through them when I am back home on my desk top.

I saw other similarly shaped ones listed online but they were all bigger &/or done in colored glass.

However, for $2.99 & no damage i just couldn't leave it behind.

 

Blenko for $3? I wouldn't have left it either.

 

@*crs* - I think the piece you show above (789P) is flatter than my piece. You would only be able to get a 2" pillar candle (do they even come that small?) in the depression & I think it would look odd surrounded by 4 1/2" of the bowl.

I looked through all of the 2000s catalogs but did not see anything like my bowl.

I am not on Facebook so I guess it will just get listed with the information I have right now.

Thanks for looking for me!!

 

@bercrystal , (you do realize I'm your old TP partner, right?) Peggy I saved your pics and description and put it one of the Blenko groups. I'll give them a few hours before posting in another if no response.

 

Yes, I do remember all those years of sharing a Terapeak account.

Thank you so much for posting the bowl to the FB group!!

I keep saying I am going to have to break down & join FB but just haven't gotten around to doing it.

I only want it to keep up with my perfume bottle group & the group of folks I worked with back in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Other than that I am not really interested that much & I'm sure that is why I have just not taken the time to sign up.

 

1 answer in one group so far. I have it in another also

 

The diameter is about right & this one just ended up being slightly smaller but mine is only 2 1/4" to the side edge.

What does she mean about being "from the Visitor's Center"?

Thanks again for posting this for me!!

 

I think the visitor's center may have sold 2nds? I tagged a friend in the group who is very knowledgeable when it comes to Blenko. Unfortunately she hasn't responded.

 

I will lay odds she is correct about it being a second. I don't know the correct terminology for it but about 1/4" to the left of the tag is a raised pinpoint dot of glass.

I think I can still sell it for more than I paid.

Thanks!!

 

definitely

 

I'm going the opposite direction. Wanting to leave FB (or downsize activities a LOT). Haven't quite gotten there yet, but working on it. It can be a major time waster, among other things.

 

I use it mostly for the different identification groups. I'm also an admin of 2 groups. One is for posting sold items to give peeps an idea as to what to look for while out at the thrift stores. The other is a large weekend auction group.

 

It would be on a very limited basis. It would likely mostly be for the IPBA site. For instance, right now I have a question about a repair & I know it would be very easy to get an answer quickly using that site.