Topic: help to decypher measuring jar.

[Paul S.]

I spent some hours looking for a maker called 'BELMAN/DELMAN GLASS' - obviously without result, since it actually says 'BELGIAN' :pb:     Does anyone know the reasoning behind being graduated here but using Belgian glass?  and can anyone decypher the etched symbols etc. on the side.    Without a pontil mark, although a fair amount of wear on the base, and is it possible to take a stab at dating.   Something like 6.25"/158mm tall.     Any ideas gratefully received, and thanks for looking.

[Frank]

Weird, probably last 30 years or so. Probably made to order on imported blanks by a lab glass supplier.

Acid marking on base, sandblasted on side and wheel cut gradations, numbering looks very sloppy!

[Mosquito]

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,24756.0.html

Should be older than 30yrs as, according to the info supplied by Bernard in the post above the G 2 R mark would refer to George V or VI (so anytime between 1910-1952). Also it's graduated in Fluid Oz., modern British laboratory measures are almost always graduated in SI units, though I believe Imperial models are still available to order.

Steven

[Frank]

I thought about that and decided that was not the mark as it would not have been sandblasted then. Lab glass can get a lot of use and can show wear quickly.

[antiquerose123]

Chemists marks on the side ??   Just a guess  :huh:

[Frank]

As time passed and looking closely at the other thread... I may be wrong as those are also very shoddily produced although not as bad as this one. It is not impossible for a sandblasted mark to have been used at an earlier date that the 70s/80s, just unlikely. Particularly in a shop that could manage acid etching with a stamp and wheel engraving albeit very poorly. It would hardly surprise me that the Foreign made one in the other thread came from the same laboratory glass supplier. Catalogues I have of lab glass show a much higher standard of marking! Moncrieff's hardly touched sand-blasting for marks on lab ware going straight from acid to screen printing.