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<p>[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 577771, member: 136"]Hi, Rick, and welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure some of the posters more familiar with glass than I will be around before too long to give you more info, but for now, I just wanted to mention that there were companies that did JUST the silver overlay - i.e., they put the silver "designs" on other companies' glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, here is part of YOUR "top duck" (below, on the left) and what looks like the same design on a completely different clear glass ashtray:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]174165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]174168[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(The ashtray photo is from:</p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wild-Duck-Mallard-Waterfowl-Silver-Overlay-Glass-Ashtray-circa-1950s/273361816451?hash=item3fa5a24b83:g:Sx8AAOSwoHJbQkbN" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wild-Duck-Mallard-Waterfowl-Silver-Overlay-Glass-Ashtray-circa-1950s/273361816451?hash=item3fa5a24b83:g:Sx8AAOSwoHJbQkbN" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wild-Duck-Mallard-Waterfowl-Silver-Overlay-Glass-Ashtray-circa-1950s/273361816451?hash=item3fa5a24b83:g:Sx8AAOSwoHJbQkbN</a> )</p><p><br /></p><p>While the silver portion may have been done by the same company, it is possible that the glass portion was not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 577771, member: 136"]Hi, Rick, and welcome! I'm sure some of the posters more familiar with glass than I will be around before too long to give you more info, but for now, I just wanted to mention that there were companies that did JUST the silver overlay - i.e., they put the silver "designs" on other companies' glass. For instance, here is part of YOUR "top duck" (below, on the left) and what looks like the same design on a completely different clear glass ashtray: [ATTACH=full]174165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]174168[/ATTACH] (The ashtray photo is from: [URL]https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wild-Duck-Mallard-Waterfowl-Silver-Overlay-Glass-Ashtray-circa-1950s/273361816451?hash=item3fa5a24b83:g:Sx8AAOSwoHJbQkbN[/URL] ) While the silver portion may have been done by the same company, it is possible that the glass portion was not.[/QUOTE]
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