Topic: Stuart crystal experts , help needed

[Andy]

I know theres a few Stuart experts and lovers on here, ive just been all through the replacements.com patterns
and cant find this one, its a super pattern, closest i found is hobnail, but these ones have stars on them.
Very intricate, just on the offchance, anyone have any other ideas?
Cheers
Andy

[krsilber]

Looks like Russian, a pattern that was done by many companies.

[Andy]

Hi Kristi,  :hiclp:
sorry didnt get back earlier, just seen examples of Russian cut by Webb and Richardson,
page 371 Hadamachs book on British Glass circa 1890-1910 so maybe mine are earlie than i
thought.

Cheers and thanks
Andy

[johnphilip]

 You can also see that cut in Art, Feat and Mystery The story of Thomas Webb.
 I have them in two sizes half tumbler and full tumbler they are fabulous.

[krsilber]

True that your tumblers may have been cut as early as the 1890s, but I suspect it's also possible they were cut decades later.  This was a very popular pattern, forming the basis for the pressed pattern Daisy and Button as well.  One book I have shows Russian by 7 American companies as well as a bunch of unknowns - and that's just American glass.

Unfortunately, yours isn't a particularly fine example.  Unlike the Webb one shown in Hajdamach, yours doesn't have cutting on the hobnails (the 8-sided buttons), and they are rather irregularly shaped.  There are a couple different versions of Russian, with different cutting on the hobnails.

JP, are the hobnails on yours cut like the example in the book (with stars)?

[johnphilip]

  Mine are cut exactly as in the Webb book and have significant natural wear 
  that matt grey look on the base,i got them at a country house sale many years back
  there was another set all badly damaged i left them.