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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by flying free on April 11, 2024, 09:57:13 PM »
A Davenport china plate produced for the banquet 1837 in link below.  They knew how to write a V for the cypher/monogram.  It has a point.

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/22840/lot/124/a-davenport-royal-banqueting-plate-circa-1837/
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by flying free on April 11, 2024, 05:44:55 PM »
I need to look into it more but in the example page I linked only the 'Round Text Hand' has a CAPITAL V written in the way of the bowl and plate.
The other two don't.  And all the examples I can find (not many admittedly) have her V written/inscribed etc with a pointed base.
It's odd.  There's something odd about it.
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Glass / Re: Georgian? Engraved Tumbler Signed To Base.
« Last post by bat20 on April 11, 2024, 03:31:32 PM »
Lovely glass , with all the signs of age you can hope for, congrats .
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by Ekimp on April 11, 2024, 03:22:13 PM »
Yes, if you look at some of the charts used to teach penmanship, where each letter is shown separately, some of the vs look just like the v on the bowl and plate.

For fun, some Czech and German examples (German at the bottom), although 20th century:

https://typomil.com/2007/01/normalizovane-skolni-pismo/
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by flying free on April 11, 2024, 02:15:07 PM »
just dashing out but in case I lose it

It could have been taken from something called Round Text hand or Round text alphabet.
https://pennavolans.com/the-family-of-english-round-hands/
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by Ekimp on April 11, 2024, 01:22:35 PM »
ref the monogram UR v VR

I think they have just copied the v from a cursive script.
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Glass / Re: Thomas Webb souvenir PIG (frigger) from Franco-British Exhibition 1908
« Last post by ahremck on April 11, 2024, 12:47:17 PM »
There is a Thomas Webb facebook group that I am sure would really like to see your lovely pig.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1145350706490631

Ross
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British & Irish Glass / Percival Yates & Vickers Thomas Dawkins Piano Insulator Rd. 120613
« Last post by NevB on April 11, 2024, 12:40:26 PM »
This design has been posted here previously, made by Percival Yates and Vickers for Thomas Dawkins, a musical instrument importer, Rd.lozenge is for 8/7/1859. This is the 4" version and weighs a hefty 1lb. 5oz./600gms., density is around 3gms./cm2.
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Glass / Re: Help w ID / Date Glass Vase maybe Georgian
« Last post by Glassine on April 11, 2024, 06:14:10 AM »
Correction - a comment elsewhere is that Georgian glass often has a yellow tinge.  Another says that it's typically gray.  Depending on the view, this vase can be described both ways.  So I think those comments are not in conflict and in fact point to this being Georgian.

Very open to other thoughts :-)
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by flying free on April 10, 2024, 11:24:55 PM »
For future reference just in case it becomes linked/important:
A uranium glass butter dish base c. late 1840s Rice, Harris Islington Glass
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,73283.0.html
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