ITS HISTORY, PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES
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Recognition |
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As stated earlier, there are a number of products which could
be mistaken for Shattaline. Some were deliberate attempts to copy, one even
going under the similar brand name of "Scatterlite".
The genuine article normally has a fairly close-textured crazing but which
rarely comes to the surface; if there are a number of surface marks showing
where the crazing reaches the edge of the mould, it probably isn't
Shattaline. Colours of the real thing vary enormously but yellow, orange,
red, turquoise and blue were common. The "cube" paperweights and
their derivatives are roughly 2¼ inches (or 5.5 cm) on each edge although
they tend to be a little higher than they are wide. The spherical equivalent
is of similar height and with a flat base. All were sold with felt of an appropriate
colour stuck to the base. I have seen a cigarette lighter in a cylindrical
format (see photo below), but this German product is not Shattaline, who
produced these only in the spherical or cubic formats. If the shatter effect
looks like just a few flat planes within the item it, also, is unlikely to be
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Cylindrical table lamp (left and above left) Shattaline or an imitator? At first
glance this is the real thing, and has an appropriate fibreglass shade (left).
But closer inspection (right) shows that this may not be genuine Shattaline,
as it appears to have been manufactured from broken pieces of resin cast in
fresh plain (i.e. unshattered) resin like pineapple chunks in a jelly. The base also appears
to be shorter than the usual Shattaline style. It is, however, possible that
this was a later piece of genuine Shattaline combining shattered resin with
recycled pieces. Photos courtesy of unmedia |
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Cigarette
lighters by Shattaline (left) and Solarstein
(right) The cigarette lighter
on the left is a genuine Shattaline one; that on the right was made by a
German company called Solarstein. It appears to
have been made by a similar process but, if so, why is there no shatter
effect towards the top? Photos courtesy of
design20c |
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