Waterford Crystal Question

Danes · 23-07-2012 8:26pm #1

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!

wellboytoo · 23-07-2012 8:46pm

Christmas piece ?

Danes · 23-07-2012 8:49pm

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.

daenerysstormborn3 · 23-07-2012 9:15pm

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

justbored · 23-07-2012 9:20pm

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south · 23-07-2012 9:23pm

knock offs

CardBordWindow · 24-07-2012 8:51am

perks of the job?

MitchKoobski · 24-07-2012 9:37am

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.

regtower · 24-07-2012 9:48am

HI,

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

Regards,

Regtower.

chainsawman · 24-07-2012 9:49am

Holy Waterfond.

chainsawman · 24-07-2012 9:50am

Seahorse

Danes · 24-07-2012 11:03am

Thanks everyone - regtower has it, thank you!

spankmemunkey · 24-07-2012 8:30pm

Nicked!

regtower · 24-07-2012 9:13pm

My pleasure!!!

nice_very · 24-07-2012 9:16pm

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

chainsawman · 25-07-2012 10:09am

Any Holy Waterfond for sale ?:D

paranoidpoker · 25-07-2012 11:36am

Pension funds

Danes · 25-07-2012 12:27pm

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.

ComfyKnickers · 25-07-2012 10:18pm

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

waterford · 25-07-2012 11:50pm

Holy Waterfonds and Pensionfonds have gone missing without a stamp

mccarthy37 · 26-07-2012 10:33pm

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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