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Offline BRADBURY7308

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IOW+Kerry glass ......
« on: September 10, 2011, 08:49:45 PM »
Just wanted to show these two items bought them from the oswestry show ground this morning while david batty and tim wannacott were rushing around trying to get the pairs of contestants to make a shilling i paid £30 for them both i think the perfume is iow cranberry summer fruits 12-13cm tall and the vase i think is kerry glass peat it has an iow made in england sticker???unusual to my way of thinking were they a bargain....

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Re: IOW+Kerry glass ......
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2011, 10:16:18 AM »
 :thup:

They're both Isle of Wight Studio Glass. The "Peat" (and Shamrock and Heather) designs were the designs MH gave to Kerry to start up with, they were made in both places.
The only way of telling them apart is by label, or, if it is a later Kerry bit, after the original flame logo dooffer got lost and a replacement was made with the flame the other way around.

many Kerry pieces have the flame mark the right way around.

Yup, a very good purchase!  :smg:
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

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Re: IOW+Kerry glass ......
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2011, 11:38:34 AM »
 :hiclp:Great it was funny seeing the TV people going around i dont do the fairs as a rule this was my second trip to one as its on my doorstep but it suprised me the high prices or should i say initial prices as soon as i picked up a piece the dealers knock off 25% in general hoping for a quick sale but i though these were ok prices for the two!!
Does the kerry glass made at IOW mean its more desirable??
Thanks for your reply again chopin-listz

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Re: IOW+Kerry glass ......
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2011, 12:33:12 PM »
It's not Kerry if it's made at Isle of Wight. :thup:

I have no idea if either is more "desirable" than the other - to me it's what the glass looks like that's important.  :spls:

I don't fuss about pawmarks or silly inflations of price because of features (such as labels) that are irrelevant to the actual artistic merit of the piece. I don't understand it - and I object to paying inflated prices for items which have them.  :smg:
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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Re: IOW+Kerry glass ......
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2011, 02:45:54 PM »
Summer fruits has been made for a long time, it has been a very successful range and is still being made. As items are not in short supply they do not fetch as much as some. Not sure how widespread Kerry is collected but imagine that it may become more desirable as it becomes better known.

Fifteen quid each sounds like a fine price to buy at to me....

John

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Re: IOW+Kerry glass ......
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2011, 03:32:15 PM »
I saw a little squat Summer Fruits pb go for ~£40 on ebay recently - but I think it was an unusual shape - and of course it was a pb, which gives another collecting field to add to that of IoWSG.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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Re: IOW+Kerry glass ......
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2011, 11:01:36 PM »
Thanks both, Its great the knowledge on here you pair should do a new book together on michael harris lol  i think another book could be done on the earlier works quite easily with new picture etc.... :hi:

 

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