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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: scavo on March 21, 2012, 10:27:04 PM

Title: bowl Sklo Union, Rosice ? - ID = Bagley Osprey
Post by: scavo on March 21, 2012, 10:27:04 PM
and then when I saw a little set I bought it, now I can't find the link to confirm.

does anyone recognise it? The base is quite distinctive and it doesn't look like other items of Rosice I have. There is still something Czech about it though I can't put my finger on it. Can you help?
Title: Re: I thought I saw this bowl pop up as Sklo Union, Rosice somewhere ...
Post by: Mosquito on March 21, 2012, 11:38:35 PM
I think this is Bagley; 'Osprey' pattern sprigs to mind. Maybe it's worth taking a look at the Wakefield museum site, or the Bagley book if you have it.
Title: Re: I thought I saw this bowl pop up as Sklo Union, Rosice somewhere ...
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 22, 2012, 07:42:03 AM
Steven's right. Bagley Osprey. I have a green set somewhere
Title: Re: I thought I saw this bowl pop up as Sklo Union, Rosice somewhere ...
Post by: scavo on March 22, 2012, 09:24:50 AM
I only have the Hadjmadach book. I searched online Bagley, Sowerby, Davidson, Sklo Union, etc. + pressed glass bowl. but this one didn't show up. Annoyingly lots of random stuff like Murano, Chrisbka, Fenton turned up. I really don't know how these search engines find the wrong stuff the time. Even when I typed the evact item title in, there was no Oprey bowl but a vase, then 2 other items from Wayne's site and then a poster for Moby Dick! Figure that one out!

The sooner image matching search engines are introduced the better!

Thanks to both of you.
Title: Re: I thought I saw this bowl pop up as Sklo Union, Rosice somewhere ...
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 22, 2012, 10:41:57 AM
I typed in Bagley Osprey bowl into Google and the third link was to Wayne's site showing Osprey bowls and into Google images where line 8 showed a set of bowls. Pattern no 3153. You have to remember that many of these things were parts of ranges.
Title: Re: I thought I saw this bowl pop up as Sklo Union, Rosice somewhere ...
Post by: scavo on March 22, 2012, 06:53:19 PM
Yes, parts of ranges. I didn't think of looking in the Art Deco section of Wayne's site. I should have looked there.

It seems like different results get thrown up depending on who searches and when searches are made.
I know in the '00s google search engines were designed to work from page content rather than meta tags, at other times they prioritized results on a 'linked to' rating. 
Title: Re: I thought I saw this bowl pop up as Sklo Union, Rosice somewhere ...
Post by: scavo on March 22, 2012, 08:55:12 PM
MOD please do a positive ID on this. Thanks.