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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: david31162 on March 03, 2005, 11:02:30 PM
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I've no real idea how to describe this. The only thing ive seen like it is early Powell/ Whitefriars. But Ive been told its not that.
It has a ground foot ring (is that the right term?).
I can't measure it right now as its in the attic - at a guess its 20cm wide. No marks , no sign of pontil. It just looks and feels well made.
Any ideas welcome. Thanks
David
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/david-dj/glass20002.jpg
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David,
I believe that this particular style of foot is uncommonly found in positively attributable British glass of this type, and that it usually indicates a Bohemian or other mainland European origin in such glass found in Britain. A British attribution cannot be completely excluded. The shape is not usually associated with American glass.
I find it impossible to believe that any professional glassmaker or apprentice at one of the top British glassworks such as Stevens & Williams, John Walsh Walsh, or Whitefriars would have left the foot in this way to be finished by grinding.
Bernard C. 8)
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Thanks for your ideas about the origin of the glass.
David
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Why notpost it on www.Whitefriars.com. There you have fellow collectors and a most amazing site on this great and much missed factory!They even have a voting system and I recall seeing someting similar1 the smoke colour does not look quite Whitefriars to me but could be photo or made on a day of poor colour! It happens in the best factories, so I am told by our batch mixer when he makes a mistake!
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A bit pointless as it is not british.