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Waterford Crystal Question

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  • 23-07-2012 9:26pm
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    Danes
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭


    Can anyone remind me what the personal pieces that the blowers/cutters were allowed to make and bring home were called? You know the kind of thing, walking sticks, coloured fish, swans - there was a word for them and it's driving me mad trying to remember!


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    wellboytoo
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    Christmas piece ?


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    #3
    Danes
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Danes


    They did do Christmas pieces, you're right but the ones I'm talking about would have been made regularly at the end of the working day, it was a slang term.


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    daenerysstormborn3
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    Himself worked there for 7 years and never heard of anyone doing this.


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    justbored
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    south
    Registered Users Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭south


    knock offs


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    CardBordWindow
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    perks of the job?


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    MitchKoobski
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    D'father worked there for years. We have plenty of these at home, but I honestly can't think if they had a name for it.


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    regtower
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    HI,

    The end of day pieces made like this are called friggers.

    Regards,

    Regtower.


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    chainsawman
    Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭chainsawman


    Holy Waterfond.


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    chainsawman
    Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭chainsawman


    Seahorse


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    #12
    Danes
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Danes


    Thanks everyone - regtower has it, thank you!


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    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Nicked!


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    regtower
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭regtower


    My pleasure!!!


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    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    surely these pieces would not be stamped and not valuable (except to whoever made them) ?


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    chainsawman
    Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭chainsawman


    Any Holy Waterfond for sale ?:D


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    #17
    paranoidpoker
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭paranoidpoker


    Pension funds


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    Danes
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Danes


    This is an old article but you can see the kinds of things I was talking about - they would not be stamped as they were made from off-cuts and were made by the craftsman for his own personal use rather than for sale.


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    ComfyKnickers
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭ComfyKnickers


    Ah feck, was just coming back with friggers after asking someone who worked there, delighted with myself and all so I was!


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    #20
    waterford
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭waterford


    Holy Waterfonds and Pensionfonds have gone missing without a stamp


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    mccarthy37
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭mccarthy37


    At the height of production Waterford Crystal employed around 3,500 in this county. Those were the days. Mary Coughlan addressing the former workers in the Tower Hotel said Get over this, Waterford Crystal is gone, we in Donegal had to get over Fruit of the Loom. I was amazed nobody asked her to name three reconized Irish international brands that are produced in Ireland. I can tell you Fruit of the Loom was not one of them but by God Waterford Crystal was. Now name two more and there aint much more than that.


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