Topic: glass vase with griffin seal

[bzzzzz]

Hi first time using this and it's for a friend.  He recently purchased a small vase brown/orange about 15cm high and 7 cm wide.  It wasn't very easy to see but we could just make out a seal/stamp on the vase.  To begin with he thought it looked like a dragon, I thought it looked like a pterodactyl - we finally agreed that it looked like a griffin. 

I was wondering if anyone on here would know of a resource online where we could wade through different stamps/seals of glass makers on the off chance of seeing the same seal that we have on this vase.

Thanks for your help

[Max]

Hi and welcome to the GMB  

The best idea would be to upload a photo of the mark here so that we can see it.  Would that be possible?  In the meantime, it's not this mark, is it?  

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6268

If you have a vase, that mark would be impressed into a blob of glass underneath the base.

[Bernard C]

Possibly a Strathearn "Leaping Salmon".   See http://www.ysartglass.com/BaseLabel/Labels.htm at the bottom of the page.

Bernard C. 

[Max]

It's almost more fun guessing, isn't it Bernard? lol  :hiclp:

[Bernard C]

Agreed, Max. 

Could be almost anything, although the S&W/RB Raybould tortoise is unlikely.    Didn't one of the island glassworks have an animal impressed prunt?

... and I was thinking of you today, Max, as we've been delivered a Milton Keynes food and garden waste 140 litre wheelie bin, which, as we produce less than a couple of pounds per week that we don't compost ourselves, seems to be rather superfluous.   But we could use it for road kill — three or four foxes and badgers, one deer, four or five cats, or any number of owls!  :angel:

Bernard C. 

[johnphilip]

Or the I.O.W Flame mark on what looks like a wine gum . :chky:

[Max]

Maybe it's something Erik Hoglund-ish?   :huh:

garden waste 140 litre wheelie bin, which, as we produce less than a couple of pounds per week that we don't compost ourselves, seems to be rather superfluous.   But we could use it for road kill — three or four foxes and badgers, one deer, four or five cats, or any number of owls!  Angel

:::thinks:::: With a wheely-bin that big you could probably compost a whole cow...then all you'd need is a vat of formaldehyde and a friendly art gallery!   :hiclp: :24:

[Cathy B]

Are you able to add a picture? From your description, it's hard to tell whether it is an acid-etched mark, a mark pressed into the hot glass, or a moulded piece with a moulded mark a little proud of the glass. I just wondered whether you might have been looking at a Sowerby peacock or the Greener lion?

[bzzzzz]

okay i'll try and put some photo's on.

unfortunately the mark is not very clear.

[Lustrousstone]

Can you try rubbing over it with a pencil to highlight the raised bits - it will wash off. I have to say that it looks like a very modern piece to me and of course the glass factory is unlikely to be the one that applied the metalware.