Topic: help with stained glass decanter and tumblers please

[fatlyfurry]

please does anyone have any info on this decanter and six glasses
marked to base agc and some other numbers . thanks debbie

[Leni]

My daughter-in-law used to decorate old bottles and glasses to match each other with glass paint, and sell them at Canal Festivals and car-boot sales.  Are you sure this isn't a 'home made' decoration added to a plain bottle and glasses?  It's very pretty and artistically done, but it does look like glass paint to me.

[fatlyfurry]

well the stopper has ablue glass ball in it and matches colour exactly , and each small glass has exact same pattern even the sizes on each . but it could be i suppose . thanks debbie

[Ivo]

the bottle comes out of a modern bottle plant, as you can tell from the bottom.

[Frank]

It is quite possible that the design was printed on, it was not uncommon to use mass-produced glass by decorators in modern times... 1950s on. Not necessarily from the same country either.

If this is the case here, then the colours will be fired on, try and scratch gently the colour somewhere not too noticeable. If it flakes then it is likely hand painted by an owner. If fired the product of a decorator - which could only be identified from their catalogues!