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Bernard C:
See http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7390

I am sure I have seen this vase or a picture of it before, but I can't find it.   I had a feeling that it might be Sowerby, but it could be Continental.

Any help would be welcomed.  The usual information — glassworks / pattern no. / name / lunch date / production period / &c.

TIA,

Bernard C.  8)

pamela:
Hello Bernard, first idea was Reich 1934, but I cannot trace it either  :'(

Bernard C:
Pamela — Grateful thanks, and apologies for wasting your time, as it is English, and I should have known what it was straight away.   I'm just surprised that no-one else recognised it.

It is Bagley, pattern number 3185 Marquis, launched (lunched!) early 1950s, and appears as a drawing in the 1950s and 1964 trade catalogue entries reproduced in Bowey, Parsons & Parsons.

Pontefract Museum has an example, see here, although with a very strange production period in the associated notes, as the 3000 series pattern numbers were sequential, and pattern 3141 Carnival was a design registered in November 1946, giving us a fairly accurate cut off between pre- and post-war pattern numbers.

These Marquis vases seem quite scarce.   I wonder why?

Bernard C.  8)

Sklounion:
Hi Bernard,
Possibly due to the period. After the war, more items were rationed, than had been during the war itself.
Rationing did not, as many seem to assume, apply only to food, tyres, alcohol, and much more were covered. Those nine years after the end of hostilities in Europe, were hard for many. Certainly food-wise, the last items were de-restricted, only in May and June 1954.
I have not been able to find much else, but I think post-war austerity measures are likely to have been a major factor.
Regards,
Marcus

Lustrousstone:
I wonder whether it appears scarce because nobody recognises it. It's not what you'd call describable, therefore nothing to tag it with in the old memory cells. There's a plethora of these conical pseudo cut glass vases and when I saw it I certainly thought I'd seen it before.

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