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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: ahremck on August 05, 2011, 12:02:38 PM
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Ebay auction # 130556683655 (current until 09 Aug, 2011 06:39:16 AEST) shows a pink vase with a most unusual base stamp. Am I correct in believing it to be from Jersey Glass?
Ross
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Guernsey,ive got the exact same one,and a taller one in blue with a lable
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Thanks for that Kaz. I could not find out anything about a Jersey glass. I have an Island Studio Pwt from Guernsey but the base has a paper label. I also have a small vase with the base stamp - but it was called Jersey glass and claimed to be made by a Michael Harrison. Would they be the same studio - or were there two?
Ross
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Guernsey and Island Glass are one and the same - one of Michael Harris' "turnkey" operations - where he provided training and some basic designs for folk to set up their own Studios.
I can only assume "somebody" added an "on" to the end of Michael Harris' name at some point - "somebody" not paying attention, obviously.
Guernsey and Jersey are different islands, aren't they?
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Sue a quick scan of Mark Hill's book reveals there was a Jersey glass - also set up with help from Michael Harris - run by Nick Wirdnam - now a major force in Australian art glass having run Monash University's studio for many years. I wonder how he signed his works in those days. I might email him and see if he is prepared to respond.
Ross
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There is still a Jersey Glass Art, but that's cast sculptury stuff
Guernsey and Jersey are different islands, aren't they?
They were last time I went to Guernsey, but that was in the olden days!
I would love to see this
http://www.glasschurch.org/lalique_experience/experience_lalique.html
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That's the base mark for Guernsey: three lions lying alongside each other, and that seems an awful lot of money for that vase!!
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And to cap it all, (or not >:D ) it's a tiny perfume bottle minus it's stopper.
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Are you telling us Sue, that all small vases are not REALLY small vases. I am shocked at the ethics of the Ebayers on the other side of the world! :24: :24: :24: :24: :24: :24:
Ross
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No Ross, just that I have two of these - one in ambers and one in blues - and they're perfume bottles, with stoppers.
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Obviously the facetiousness of my response was not evident. The number of "Small vases" I have seen that were obviously perfumes originally is almost
apocryphal infinite it seems.
Ross
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It's me being slow, Ross.
I have lost the ability to multi-task - or think about more than one wee thing at a time. :ooh:
facetiousness is beyond me - far too clever!
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Is the inside of the neck of the 'vase' ground or smooth?
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on my two a stopper would not fit snuggly as the top of the vase comes out there is grooves so surley the perfume would evaporate?
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Perfume bottle can be a nominal term for a small decorative bottle with a stopper, not necessarily something to be used.
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oh,i thought they was vases as one of mine is nearly 7 1/2 inch tall
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Are you saying that they were all Perfume bottles Christine....I was sure that a lot of the ones I have seen were vases.... :usd:
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Look at the rest of the sellers glass, nearly all antique vintage... :or: some of which is as old as 20th century... :ra: obviously managed to buy job lots of 'rare' pieces too... :tof: favourite price is $299.99 :24:
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Are you saying that they were all Perfume bottles Christine
No, but Kaz said
n my two a stopper would not fit snuggly as the top of the vase comes out there is grooves so surley the perfume would evaporate?
Just that it might look like a perfume bottle if it has a stopper, but that doesn't mean you're actually supposed to use it.