Topic: Old stemware

[Leni]

I decided to take a good look at the cabinet full of glass left by my great aunt, which I have not examined (or dusted  :oops: ) for a long time.  I thought it would be a good idea to photograph it, as I have no idea what most of it is.  It's old stemware, of which I have no knowledge and, I am sorry to say, little interest   :oops:  :roll:

After a marathon session, I have taken pics of most of it, and I wondered if there is anybody here who is interested and knowledgeable in this area.  

I don't want to bore people rigid - well, it's quite boring to me  :roll: - so I'll post a couple and see if everyone ignores it.  If so, I won't bother you with the rest  :lol:  

Some of them are singles and some twos, fours, or sixes.  I have to say I have no idea how old any of them are, although I know for a fact none are less than 50 years old.  I would be interested in knowing the age, if anyone can hazard a guess, and maybe where they were made if it is at all possible to tell.  

Anyway, here's a couple to be going on with:  http://tinypic.com/eili74.jpg  http://tinypic.com/eili8o.jpg set of six of these
http://tinypic.com/eim2is.jpg  http://tinypic.com/eim2jo.jpg  only two of these

Any 'takers'?  

Leni

[Anne]

I find stemware interesting Leni, so please do post them. What is easier to identify them though is, rather than the looking down on the glass in the view you have, to have a side on view as that way the shape of the glass, the stem, any knop, the bowl shape and the foot shape are all clearly visible. It's not at all easy to see all thse details from your photos. Hope this might help in getting them ID'd for you.

[Leni]

I find stemware interesting Leni, so please do post them.

Great!   Thanks, Anne!

What is easier to identify them though is, rather than the looking down on the glass in the view you have, to have a side on view as that way the shape of the glass, the stem, any knop, the bowl shape and the foot shape are all clearly visible.

 :x  :x   So I have to get them all out and photgraph them again?  :shock:    

OK here goes  :roll:

I've done a few together.  If you would like to see more / larger / separate pics, please let me know  :roll:   And seriously, thanks again  :wink:

These are the first two I posted : http://tinypic.com/eimplk.jpg
and here are a few more : http://tinypic.com/eimpn7.jpg
Anything you can tell me I would be most grateful to hear  

Leni

[Anne]

Much better pictures, thanks Leni. We can see them now!  

http://tinypic.com/eimpn7.jpg the one on the far left - does this have a pattern of cut circles interspersing cut verticals or is it all narrow cuts? The shape is very much like several patterns made by Webb Corbett, so that may be a place to start looking.

[Leni]

Thanks, Anne.  The far left one has simple oval cuts.  I think you can see them more clearly in this picture of the foot. http://tinypic.com/ej8qpv.jpg

I'll have a look at Webb Corbett, as you suggest    

Leni

[Connie]

I would look at Stuart Glass for some of the others.

If you don't have the Replacements book, then go to their site and find Stuart.  Click on the show pictures tab on the left side and scroll through the thumbnails.

I would look in my book but I am on my way out of town for work again.

[Tony H]

Leni

Have a good look at the base of your stems, most Web Corbett or Stuart are marked in the centre or on the edge, also Webb, Harbridge and Tudor
also Richardson

Tony H in NZ

[Leni]

Have a good look at the base of your stems

What sort of marks are we talking about?  How were blown glasses marked by the makers 50 - 100 years ago?  When did the acid etching we see on modern glasses come in?   :?

Sadly, I can see no marks at all on any of them, Tony  

Leni

[liberty1]

Leni
I have a book The Arthur Negus Guide to British Glass which is full of tips on what to look for and identify stem ware.

One of the tips in it is and I quote

During the early years of the nineteenth century a characteristic mark found on the underside on the glass is a Y or T impressed into a flat foot with no sign of a pontil mark. This was caused by a springloaded instrument called a "gadget"

Don't know if this helps or not but buying this book awoke my interest in old glasses so carry on asking and somewhere someone will give us the answers.

Doris

[Anne]

Leni, my mother's Thomas Webb Normandy wine glasses are not marked in any way.

All the Stuart pieces I've seen and have are marked* - my Stuart hand-decorated grapefruits which were registered in 1921 have an etched RD no and Stuart mark, I don't know when etched marks started though.

Edited to add: * Not now they aren't!