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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: agincourt17 on May 22, 2013, 07:36:16 PM
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Two examples of a similar small comport or pedestal bowl, one in purpley-blue slag glass and the other in opaque white glass, by Henry Greener, Sunderland. Both have the Greener 1875-1885 ‘demi-lion with star in paws’ trademark to the underside plus what appears at first sight to be a standard registry date lozenge. On both pieces, however, the identifying letters of digits inside the angles read O-X-A-Y, a meaningless combination for a registration date - the X is the date letter for 1880, A the month letter for December, but the O and theY should both be digits rather than letters.
The only Henry Greener registration in December 1880 was for RD number 35961 on 8 December, a tankard for E. Hanlan , the oarsman.
Do any other GMB members have an example of this Greener comport? If so, do they bear this anomolous date lozenge or a ‘normal’ date lozenge?
If a ‘normal’ date lozenge, what date is it for, please?
I know that there have been other posts on GMB about pieces with strange or untranslateable date lozenges, but none seem to match this peculiar Greener lozenge.
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I can't shed any light on the mystery of the peculiar date lozenge, but I do own an example of the comport/pedestal bowl, and also this matching creamer. Both bear the Greener lion mark, and the 'O-X-A-Y' lozenge (although it reads more like O-X-A-V on the creamer).
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Welcome to the GMB, and thank you for showing the creamer in white opaque glass.
The only example that I have seen before was this one in clear glass (also with the Greener 1st lion trademark and indistinct anomalous RD lozenge).
Fred.