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Title: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass? - ID = Guernsey Glass
Post by: ahremck on August 05, 2011, 12:02:38 PM
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
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: kazleeb on August 05, 2011, 12:09:10 PM
Guernsey,ive got the exact same one,and a taller one in blue with a lable
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: ahremck on August 05, 2011, 12:18:21 PM
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
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 05, 2011, 01:03:01 PM
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?
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: ahremck on August 05, 2011, 02:23:39 PM
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
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 05, 2011, 02:31:37 PM
There is still a Jersey Glass Art, but that's cast sculptury stuff

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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
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: rosieposie on August 05, 2011, 10:03:44 PM
That's the  base mark for Guernsey: three lions lying alongside each other, and that seems an awful lot of money for that vase!!
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 06, 2011, 11:06:14 AM
And to cap it all, (or not  >:D ) it's a tiny perfume bottle minus it's stopper.
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: ahremck on August 06, 2011, 12:56:12 PM
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
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 06, 2011, 12:59:45 PM
No Ross, just that I have two of these - one in ambers and one in blues - and they're perfume bottles, with stoppers.
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: ahremck on August 06, 2011, 01:07:07 PM
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
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 06, 2011, 01:24:54 PM
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!
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: rosieposie on August 06, 2011, 03:03:34 PM
Is the inside of the neck of the 'vase' ground or smooth?
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: kazleeb on August 06, 2011, 03:05:23 PM
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?
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 06, 2011, 03:32:43 PM
Perfume bottle can be a nominal term for a small decorative bottle with a stopper, not necessarily something to be used.
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass?
Post by: kazleeb on August 06, 2011, 03:42:39 PM
oh,i thought they was vases as one of mine is nearly 7 1/2 inch tall
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass? - ID = Guernsey Glass
Post by: rosieposie on August 06, 2011, 09:07:52 PM
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:
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass? - ID = Guernsey Glass
Post by: Frank on August 06, 2011, 11:52:32 PM
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:
Title: Re: Unusual base stamp - is it from Jersey glass? - ID = Guernsey Glass
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 07, 2011, 05:47:47 PM
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Are you saying that they were all Perfume bottles Christine

No, but Kaz said
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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.