Well, as the following page shows, my interest in Color is Messy probably peaked about six years ago,[1] in late 2017/2018. (Ironically, I didn't even start to post my 2012 samples till 2017 and the main 2012 sample strand didn't go up till 2020[2] and then didn't post my 2017 samples till 2023!
It's nice glass, and I still have a lot of it—in fact, the only real reason I haven't been buying more is that I have so much already;)
closeup of prussian blue (the dark transparent blue bead in the center of the photo.) Lumix LX100, 1/60sec, +1.0 ex bias, iso250 13dec17.
So our guild has these silent auctions at our holiday party, and in 2017 I netted myself a couple of CiM sample packs, at least one of which, according to my studio notes, was of ltd run colours. I noted on 11dec17 that
Some of the colors had that delightful creaminess I associate w/ CiM...ALSO, prussian was done on a slightly bent mandrel.[3]
12 dec - restrung CiM strand:
samples! 20171214LX
(The year denotes when I received the glass, which may have some relationship to when it was manufactured.)
- 605 thistledown
- 606 damson
- 609 berry mist 2017
- 527 anchor 2017
- 549 sea mist 2017
- 454 refresh 2017
- 456 eel grass 2017
- 452 peat moss 2017
- 453 peridot 2017
- 406 gooseberry
- 314 cornsilk 2017
- 457 yangtze 2017
- 451 inchworm 2017
- 461 jellybean 2017
- 450 chartreuse 2017
- 910 yellow 2017
- 204 peachy keen 2017
- 704 peaches & cream (2012?)
- 208 tangerine
- 205 tandoori
- 206 macaw (4 tries!!!)
- 111 bing
- 123 hemoglobin
- 702 auburn
- 102 valentine 2014
- 120 ladybug
- 115 poppy
- 333 sunshine 2014 Yellow
- 207 daffodil mar 2014 yellow
- 409 key lime pie jan 2012 pale golden green
- 411 sprout jan 2012 pale green
- 506 moana (blue-green)
- 713 nutmeg 2017 (reddish brown)
- 765-3 chai (pink)
- 507 linen feb 2012
- 306 honey mustard 2014
- 728 canoe 2017
- 726 safari
- 722 canyon de chelly (2 examples)
- 733-1 tamarind
- 813 cobblestone 2017
- 824 pachyderm 2017
- 811 weimaraner
- 455 troll 2017
- 551 prussian blue 2017
- 531 lapis 2017
- 504 blue suede shoes
I've long since given up attempting to track Effetre's non-standard colours, not only because there are so many of them, but also because there doesn't seem to be much consistency with regard to stock numbers, names, etc. Creation is Messy, otoh, seems to base their limited run colours on fairly stable recipes. For awhile they simply assigned a batch or melt number to whatever stock number the glass was nominally supposed to be (oh be still my beating heart!) but evidently this was ‘too complicated’ for people to follow so now they assign the odd lots a unique name (and stock number...at least till they run out, I suppose.) Fortunately it's still relatively easy to figure out most of the colours’ antecedents: honey mustard, canoe and safari are all, frex, variants of canyon de chelly.
They also keep track of these variations, so that sometimes, colours actually get resurrected; for that reason, it makes more sense to keep track of them: it might actually return.
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