Topic: Ebay Item 160062043135

[thomasandkatherine]

Hi, can anyone confirm or otherwise the id given on Ebay listing number
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160062043135 ?  If not as described, who is the manufacturer and the likely date of manufacture and also what the is the item's intended purpose?

[Cathy B]

This piece was posted by the owner on the board some time ago:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,8326.0.html
I can't find it in what I have on Sowerby (a few pages of catalogue and Sheilagh Murray's book) but that's not saying much!

[thomasandkatherine]

Many thanks for that.  I had a query from one of my buyers about this piece and I thought I would put it to the experts. 

[Cathy B]

I can only assume the seller got their information elsewhere. Maybe you can contact them and ask how they know it's Sowerby.
Cheers!

[sph@ngw]

Adam Dodds might know. he used to work at Davidson's and knew Sowerby's in the late 50's and 60's!
I have just bought a pristine 1948 book on Pressed Glass by Davidson, privately printed by them to celebrate 3 generations of Davidsons, and it is not there.
Looks like a tooth pickholder to me but very late Victorian early Edwardian, turn of the century!