Topic: Regency style salt+pepper shaker's?date?

[BRADBURY7308]

Recently bought this preety set for my collection they were very inexpensive and i would like too understand a little more about them if anyone has any ideas as too the age etc it would be most appreciated. They have a  lemon squeezer type foot and really look to me too be in the regency style?Any oppinion's greatly appreciated thanks dan.
p.s. will try too get better pics my cam cant take small pics lol

[Ivo]

Take a little more distance when shooting these. Your camera probably has a minimum focusing distance. Also use the Macro setting if it has one - that is the symbol with the flower.
As it is I cannot even see if the foot is square and star cut or true lemon squeezer - which would be relevant to know.

[BRADBURY7308]

bit better pictures thanks ivo taking at a distance a zooming worked a lot better. Have no macro. Just cant get a good one of the under-foot sorry.

[Ivo]

Oh but that is an excellent result. I would say that is a square foot with a star cut base, not a "lemon squeezer" foot which is domed inwards and much more pronounced.  Of course I haven't got a clue who made these - but based on the foot I would think they're around 1800 give or take 20 years. Origin possibly Irish? I'm sure someone will come along and correct me.

[BRADBURY7308]

OOH most excellent thanks Ivo i thought they were 1970's modernish i never knew they were making these then do you think they have a look of the regency period? Ive never come across these type of salts etc before...do they have a any value? i payed £1 in a local hospice shop recently just for there decorative value would never believe they were that sort of date. THANKYOU... :hiclp:

[Lustrousstone]

The glass lids are a clue that they are not new - be very careful not to overtighten them. Far cheaper and easier to make in metal or some sort of plastic. Are the stoppers the same hole wise or different? Single for salt and multiple for pepper is quite a modern concept

[BRADBURY7308]

Arrrgh one has a single hole and one is multi-hole :cry:

[Lustrousstone]

That's OK, in truth that could mean they are not as old as Ivo suggests, or I'm wrong about the holes. They are still lovely items

[BRADBURY7308]

Thanks for the input in truth i get a little carried away with comments, I guess i should just take in the knowledge rather than make up my mind straight away its excellent to find out so many new thing's on here thank's very much! :thup:

[Bernard C]

Dan — Regency / Georgian styles have been in almost continuous production since they were first made.   Here in the UK they were certainly made in C20 by Richardson, Stevens & Williams, John Walsh Walsh, and others.   They were rarely marked — the antiques trade didn't like it!

Glass screw tops on condiments are comparatively recent, probably dating from some time in the '20s or '30s, and then for fitting with bakelite and metal lids.   Glass screw lids on condiments are more recent:  I guess only within the last half century.

There is also a geographical puzzle in your condiments.   The Georgian style was the province of the Stourbridge and Birmingham firms I've mentioned.   Whereas glass screws were quite definitely the province of the bottle and jar makers, of which the largest and most innovative were to be found in the glass town of Barnsley.

... and apologies.   I don't seem to have answered any questions — just introduced more.   

Bernard C.