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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Tigerchips on December 05, 2005, 12:05:16 AM

Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing ID = Chance Bros.
Post by: Tigerchips on December 05, 2005, 12:05:16 AM
Shame on me for not knowing what this is.  :oops:
Okay, it's probably some sort of bowl for holding food or fruit.
(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/normal_Picture%20068.jpg)
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(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/normal_Picture%20067.jpg)
Difficult to see the true colour in these pictures. It's really a light pink colour and it's covered pink on the back but it has clear glass on the front.

This was so brown and dirty I wasn't even sure if it was carnival glass or not. Shame it turned out not to be carnival glass though.  :(

I can't say that I've ever seen this colour in pressed glass and that's what appealed to me. I'll admit that the pattern looks fairly boring but the colour attracted me to it.

Any comments welcome.  :)
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Tigerchips on December 07, 2005, 11:38:29 AM
So is this a cheap process of spraying paint on the back of items? perhaps it is Amercan and was sold in carnivals, or not.  :)
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Glen on December 07, 2005, 12:39:17 PM
I'm not sure about the glass (it's hard to say from a photo - I'd be more confident if I could hold it and look at it up close and personal), but the metal base looks English to me. I've seen similar on Sowerby and other UK makers. I doubt it's American.

Don't believe all this stuff you hear about glass being given away at Carnivals.  :lol:

Glen
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Tigerchips on December 16, 2005, 12:17:29 AM
Your right (as always), I've seen identical bases on eBay from Bagley and Davidsons (though eBay is never precise with attributions). None of them with this mottled pink colour to the outside though.
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Adam on December 16, 2005, 03:27:12 PM
Don't attach any importance to the foot.  A lot of customers bought articles drilled (or drilled them themselves) and aquired the feet elsewhere (Birmingham area in the case of the UK).

Adam D.
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: mrvaselineglass on December 16, 2005, 11:44:47 PM
(depending on the size of course), the first thought that came to mind was that this was an old ceiling lamp fixture and someone decided to attach a base to it!   :D
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Tigerchips on December 17, 2005, 09:24:57 AM
It is 10½ inches diameter and 5 inches high.  :D
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Anne on December 28, 2005, 10:59:02 PM
TC I saw two smaller flat dishes with the same pattern today - no wavy edge, but one has a central hole and was pink like yours, the other had no hole and was milk white. In the centre of each was the word Chance in smallish script (the one with the hole said Ch.....e as the hole went through the middle of the word!).

Not what I'd have associated with Chance Glass for sure. Does yours have anything that looks like the same lettering round the central stand pin?
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Tigerchips on December 29, 2005, 08:39:07 AM
Thanks Anne.

No writing at all, I even removed the stand beforehand to find out.

I did see a piece of pressed glass once with the Chance name on it. As far as I can remember, it had a wavey rim. It may have had the same wavey rim.
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Glen on December 29, 2005, 10:03:42 AM
"Waverly" bowl by Chance Brothers, produced from 1949-53. Photo shown in the article "Automated Table Glass Production in Britain since World War II" in the Journal of the Glass Association, Vol 5, 1997.

Anne, thanks for spotting the Chance name on those two bowls and thus solving the mystery. It reminded me where I had seen a photo and info on the bowl!

Glen
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Tigerchips on December 29, 2005, 07:39:57 PM
Wow, thanks for the help Anne and Glen.  :D

I'll try to return the help some time later on.

I hope that one day I will be able to help people identify almost all of their glass. I'm still in training though, give me another ten years.  :lol:

We should have a system to award people with stars for helping other people. No wait... that would make me look (more) daft. If I was lucky, I'd probably get half a star. Or perhaps a falling star.  :lol:

I'm just rambling on and everybody's probably not reading this at all. One moment i'm quiet and the next i'm all gobby and still rambling on....

Yay, thanks.  :D
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Glen on December 29, 2005, 08:01:53 PM
Actually Tigerchips, I think we should thank the people who ASK the questions  :lol:

'Cos without the questions, there would never be any answers  :lol:  :lol:

Glen
Title: Pink Pressed glass, um, bowl thing
Post by: Anne on December 29, 2005, 08:04:21 PM
Brilliant Glen!  Thanks for checking my lead, that's terrific. As I said before, not a shape or pattern I'd have readily associated with Chance so it is great that you knew where to find the answer. 8)

TC, delighted to help as always.  I love it when we get a result.  :D

BTW I've added Glen's info as an attributed comment to the images in GlassGallery for future reference.