Topic: Heavy glass bookends - ID = Cambridge Glass

[Sendhandfran]

Hi,
Unfortunately these are damaged but still very striking.
They're about  6" by 5" & each weigh about 1.5kg.
I'd love to know who likely made them if anyone can tell.

Thank you

[KevinH]

On behalf of sendhandfran, I have copied the set of images from the eBay listing and have resized and optimised three of them to add as permanent images here.

(I will look at tidying up the thread later)

[Ohio]

These at least strongly resemble Cambridge (U.S.) #511 bookends in what we call light emerald circa 1927-29. Same stepped base, same curves, etc. & Cambridge has a London showroom from the mid 20s up until WWII.

[Sendhandfran]

Oh Sue, Kevin, thank you Im, hopefully doing an IT course soon, i need it, lol, I haven't a clue how you did that, but Thank you both.
I've found partial success with Puffin, a free app browser. It, along with all the others I tried didn't work at first, but I've been able to down load an image, 1 at a time though, so it's not perfect. I guess (I hope) Apples Tech Guys are on the problem.

[Sendhandfran]

Thanks Ohio. I almost forgot about these maybe American eh, nice. I thought they were likely 20/30s. Are they deliberately different heights, would you think, or more likely mould variations?

[Ohio]

They made two different types of the 511, curved back like yours & straight back & there may have been mold base variations as they are early. Also they must have had a limited production run because we don't see them much in the U.S. however not that unusual as its well documented that some Cambridge designs that didn't sell favorably here in the U.S. sold very well in the London showroom over the years. Ones like yours are difficult, to say the least, to find. Later on Cambridge went with the Pouter Pigeon, Scotties, Eagle & Lion bookends...figural bookends with better sales results. The London showroom was especially successful with the Cambridge figural flower frogs.