Glass Message Board

I think it reads Vallerysthal the French company. Try searching Vallerysthal art glass.

Hello!

With your help, I was indeed able to identify this. :)

It looks like this is a piece from "Berting Glass" (based in my province; known for glass wheat stocks). I never knew they made vases, but I found one picture of a blue version of my vase here:
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Untitled--Blue-Vase-/24016B4EEF1A1674

Thank you very much for your help!

I agree extremely unlikley to be Murano - they rarely use colour in that way. 

My thought is that it may be Czech in origin.

Seeing it has markings lets see if you can gey a useful photo.  It often is not helpful to photo the marks square on as the unternal shapes tens to distort things.  Ditto flash is rarely helpful.  One way is to take it outside and with the sun behind you take a very shallow photo of the base.  The base should be light as it reflects the sky, the writing will be dark as the light does not reflect.  The benefit is that distortion can't happen nor do unwanted reflections in most caes.  Here is an example where I used this strategy and got nice sharp details.  You may need to try several times to get a focussed picture.  Another common trap is to try and get too close and that gets out of focus.  A well focused photo can be blown up many times and still be useful.

Good luck, Ross

This topic has been moved to Glass.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=73347.0

That's great information - much appreciated.  I'm hoping that the National Archive files I've ordered will include that sort of information.  I know the area well from the Underground Map - the ancestor I'm researching and his brothers all lived around the area - Carter Street, Eric Street, Treby Street itself and English Street.  Treby street is still there, but Carter Street is gone.
The E Youldon information is very interesting.  My ancestor Frederick William Pike lived at 9 Carter Street, and in the 1911 Census and on his 1912 marriage certificate his profession is glass blower, but no company was mentioned.  In 1914 he joined the Royal Artillery, and served until 1919,  In the 1921 Census he's working at Amalgamated.  So I think it's probable his pre-war employer was Youldon, and that was taken over by Amalgamated.  Amalgamated wound up in about 1932, and Frederick ended up as a cable-layer for the Stepney Electricity Company.

Many thanks for your reply.

Tony