Topic: Jubilee jug

[Leni]

This little amber jug is just 3 inches high (7.5cm) and has a nice round polished out pontil mark.   Any idea of the maker?

[Lustrousstone]

It wouldn't surprise me if it was Krosno. The slightly orangey amber, the clear handle and the polished pontil remind me of a labelled jug and a boxed jug and glass set (apparently bought in M&S 40 years ago) I have.

[Ivo]

it would  hugely surprise me if it were Krosno.

[Lustrousstone]

Why?

[aa]

Looks very much like the jugs that Jaffe Rose used to import in the seventies. If it were, it could be that the engraving, which looks like sandblasting, could have been down at a different location from the origin.

[Ivo]

I'm not convinced that a decorator in 1977 would buy a pallet of blank jugs in Poland - when there is not only a domestic industry, but also Italy and Portugal as likely suppliers.

[johnphilip]

Hi Leni are you sure its not W/Fs over the years they made a lot of jugs and i have seen so many different ambers and shapes,they and other companies used the blanks for engraving ie Watford cristal, there was a thread on W/Fs . com about bowls without bubbles i asked Ray he said they did most bowls with or without bubbles in case they or someone else wanted the plain ones for engraving like my ROAB bowl,engraving bubble glass can be difficult and costly.

[Frank]

Jaffe Rose imported from Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy (table glass). Never list Poland. A lot of the decorators were importing blanks because they were cheaper. Pirelli used a mix of mostly French & British. Jules Lang imported soda table glass from Poland.

[Lustrousstone]

Scroll down to Adam A's comment about Jaffe Rose here halfway down page 3

Nic, if you pop in all your pictures in that linked thread have been eaten by Tinypic - perhaps Anne could help you reinstate them if you still have them

[Frank]