Author Topic: Pressed ruby vase, a fruit holder & a hobnail tray (Read 4491 times)

Tigerchips · « **on:** June 30, 2006, 07:10:39 PM »

More items of mysery, sorry, mystery. :roll:

I've seen a few of these around with different metal bases, perhaps Bagley or Davidsons?
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_48091.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_1285.jpg

I thought this might be Sowerby but no mention of this in the catalogue. I don't even remember seeing a mark like this on English glass. Moulded mark on the base says: "Made In England"
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture%2048047.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_1287.jpg

Similar item here, no 7140
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/library/lib8a.htm
I guess it must be a posy-vase then.

Nice Hobnail pattern dishes with a chrome tray, the tray itself is marked "Made In England".
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture%201134.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture%201135.jpg

Any clues please?

Anne · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2006, 09:46:52 PM »

I have the same glass part as your first piece, TC, but on a shorter plain stand. No idea who made the glass though... cannot find it anywhere, so would be interested to know too. http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-6

Tigerchips · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:09:15 PM »

Yes, I noticed before I posted Anne. I think mine is a fruit bowl or a grape holder as the metal base has moulded grapes on it.

Are there many firms that use this Teal colour? I've checked Sowerby (who uses this colour) but it's not in the catalogue's as far as I can see. Nazeing also uses this colour but I know nothing about their pressed glass and what it looks like. Infact, the only press-moulded glass i've seen from Nazeing is a Tricorn bowl. :lol: I'm sure they made more than that. Tricorn is either a Sowerby or Davidsons mould, I can't remember.

I need a lie down now, too much thinking going on, not enough googling.

Anne · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:33:58 PM »

The colour is quite distinctive but I can't pin it down at all TC. It's not the same as any other piece of glass I have, and the only things I've seen in it are these dishes - mine is a large one (approx 8 "or 9") but I have also seen small ones about 4" across. I use mine for grapes as well as they look so nice in it.

Tigerchips · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:05:51 PM »

I recently saw a bowl like this Sowerby bowl below at Tynmouth Station in exactly the same colour (Teal).
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/normal_Picture%20618.jpg

I believe these are Sowerby also?
Sowerby ebay

My bowl is 9 inches diameter too.

Lustrousstone · « **Reply #5 on:** July 01, 2006, 12:30:21 PM »

Tiger I have seen your teal bowl as a dessert set in clear with applied colored frit frosting stripes. Your bowl is nice, but I think the sets are horrid because they look really heavy with the thick edge. Which leads us to the question of who specialised in all the frosted 1950s stuff.

We know Chance used it but their pressed glass was quite limited. The glasses and hyacinth vases could be Chance though I suppose. So who else used frit frosting?

The teardrop bowls on ebay are probably Sowerby, although they seem to have copied something similar from Davidson

Tigerchips · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:30:59 AM »

Are the hyacinth vases English as I know the English stopped making them after a while, not sure when though. I always thought they were Bohemian/Czech.

Also, these hyacinth vases are hand blown and very thin.

I'm going to have a dig in my books just as soon as I can find my shovel? :roll:

Lustrousstone · « **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2006, 06:33:13 PM »

Back to your blue compote Tiger. Have a look at the third picture here for the colour http://www.cloudglass.com/davidson_glass_a_history.htm and here for a similar design on a 340 trinket set http://www.cloudglass.com/Davidsonbetweenwars.htm Keep scrolling 7th picture down

Tigerchips · « **Reply #8 on:** July 09, 2006, 08:03:06 PM »

Well spotted, It could be Davidsons, the rim on the trinket set appears to have the same pattern...

... are there any Davidsons books that show most of the glass patterns, preferably from the 1920's and onwards?

Lustrousstone · « **Reply #9 on:** July 10, 2006, 06:31:10 AM »

Chris and Val Stewart have a Davidson history book and I know they're working on an ID guide but apart from that ...