Topic: Uranium hand vases

[Sue C]

Hi everyone, i picked theses up today, one has a large chip out off the base, is it unusual to find two together?
The photo's arent very good, will try to get better one's if needed.
Forgot to mention inbetween the fingers are oak leaves and acorn's

[mhgcgolfclub]

Hi Sue

I do not think its that unusual to find victorian items in pairs, I have found many items as pairs including shoes, vases and frosted glass John Derbyshire hand vases, looking at your vases they do not look like John Derbyshire hand vases which were not all marked on the base, I am not sure who made yours but think maybe Burtles and Tate as they made many items in various colours with Oak leaves and acorn pattern

regards roy

[Sue C]

Thank's Roy, i never find pair's up here, especially uranium hand vases, i wonder, did they only ever make the vase's in the right hand? in which case these will not be a true pair??

[mhgcgolfclub]

I think they mostly ever made right hand vases, I do not think your find a left, so in this case a pair is 2 , I think people in those days were just happy to have 2 to display rather than one, I know someone in Scotland who bought a pair of uranium John Derbyshire hand vases not long ago, but to find one is quite rare, in 5 years of going to hundreds of fairs I have only seen one and that was glued back together,

Davidson made a tall slag glass boot on a plinth in a left and a right and that is seen quite often in a right boot , but only very rarely in the left, I only last week bought a rare pair of blue Victorian flat back glass dogs which are a true pair, so there are plent of pairs out there, some being true pairs while others are just 2 items the same which still makes a pair

regards roy

[Lustrousstone]

It's the same with the painted vases, mostly they are twos but much less often they are a mirror image pair. Nice hands BTW 

[Glen]

There are both right and left Carnival Glass Hand vases (made in India).

[Anne]

Sue, have a look at Marinka's topic here (with link to her Glass Encyc article on hand vases) where she gives loads of info about them.  http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,17221.0.html

[Sue C]

Thank's for the replies everyone, i had read Marinka's article, but thing's tend to slip my mind theses days, old age i suppose.
Anyway, it's nice to get a response, thank you.

[heartofglass]

Lucky you on finding these, Sue!
These are by John Derbyshire, first patented 1874. I have been trying, & failing, to even get just one of these for years!
It's nice to have a pair, hand vases are often found in pairs but nearly always they are both right-handed.
It is very rare to find a matched pair in left & right in any type of hand vase.