Topic: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated

[glassaddict]

Does anyone have any idea of date and maker of this please?
Many thanks.

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Hil 

[Adam]

The glass looks like Sowerbys 2487.  The metalwork could be by one of several makers, mostly in the UK Midlands.  Marriage unlikely to have been done at Sowerbys.

Adam D.

[glassaddict]

Ah thank you for taking the time to reply Adam. I see from Glen and Stephen's CD that it originally had a matching glass lid.
On closer inspection, I now doubt that the 2 metal pieces belong together as I think the frame is chrome and the lid is aluminium - so, possibly a marriage of 3 unrelated pieces.

Hil 

[Lustrousstone]

I have a similar lid on a preserve dish and that is chrome; it too has a pieced base. Your lid looks far too shiny to be vintage aluminium, which corrodes and dulls very slightly. I suggest it fits too well to be a marriage. Metal fittings were all the fashion at one time so there is no reason why a wholesaler shouldn't have bought the barrels without the glass lids - Sowerby would have sold them whatever they wanted...

Undoubtedly, the little lucite knobs were sourced from somewhere else

[glassaddict]

Thank you Christine. So possibly a happy marriage then 

Hil

[Lustrousstone]

I think so 

[pamela]

Confirming - I had a Sowerby's glass pot with label long ago