Post #392567 by TikiTres on Tue, Jul 8, 2008 9:05 PM

Thanks guys, I appreciate it! This sucker was very heavy, it definitely felt like thick glass. I've got a few of those cheapo thin glass knockoffs that Hobby Town sells and this was nothing like those. I did some 'net searches and ran across a site that said that some floats were hand blown into a two piece (or sometimes a 3 piece) wooden mold. The mold was used to keep them from getting out of shape. So I described it as a "seam" in my earlier post, but it's really a mold line. That makes sense as the line in the glass of the one I was looking at was barely perceptable, I had to hold it up to the light to see it.

Mai Tai, wow those are some mondo floats! Cool!

Chip and Andy, thanks, I'll try and talk them down a bit :)

BigBro, good point, I had not even considered the fact that this could have been hanging in a restaurant or bar somewhere for decades! That actually fits pretty well, it looks old, but doesn't look like it's been sitting outside.

Hopefully I can go by tomorrow and snag it, I'll post pics when I get it home :)