Topic: Help with Green Glass Jug

[Ambergreen]

Here's another one.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4741
My MIL got this off Ebay for me from the UK.   It's 18cm tall and the pattern has a real art deco feel to it. It's limey-green so it could be uranium glass? (need a black-light).  I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on the possible maker/pattern of this piece.

Cheers,
Lyn

[Cathy B]

Hi Lyn,

This is the water jug from Sowerby's 2550 water set. According to Glen, it was made in the late 1930s, and it should glow under black light.

Cheers!

[Ambergreen]

OMG! That's excellent Thanks so much for this info. May I ask where you find all this info, or is it just things you've learnt over your years of collecting? I have a few American Glass books and Australian Glass of the 19th & early 20th century. But I'm yet to find them particularly helpful in relation to my collection.  Can you recommend any other books or websites?

Cheers,
Lyn

[Cathy B]

On Sowerby, from our Glen Thistlewood's CDs http://www.geocities.com/carni_glass_uk_2000/SowerbySECONDcd.html , Sheilagh Murray's The Peacock and the Lions, and a bunch of badly indexed catalogue pages a friend sent me.

Best website is definitely here, and then also try Anne's glass links site:
http://glasslinks.yobunny.org.uk/

For pressed glass, there's Glen's site http://www.geocities.com/carni_glass_uk_2000/
Pamela Wessendorf's site http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/
Siegmar Geiselberger's http://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/

[Ambergreen]

Oooh, thanks so much for those links. I'll go check them out once the kiddies are off to bed

[Lustrousstone]

Yep that particular one glows, I can see it from here, but the green ones are not always uranium glass

[Anne]

And here's the amber version of the same jug...    http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-895 

[Ambergreen]

Ooh Anne, the amber is lovely! Yes, I'm partial to Amber - call me strange Tho' it probably works in my favour as they are easier to come across at a reasonable price - unlike the green.

[Anne]

I'm very partial to amber glass as well, so have quite a few bits of it floating around now. Jugs, tumblers and fruits sets mainly, but some bowls and baskets as well. Maybe I should create an amber glass site for those of us who do like it?!    (That'll make Ivo wince!    )

[Ambergreen]

  He he he ... sounds like a plan.