Topic: Who did doggies (book ends) in this fashion?

[Tinker-Taylor]

Sorry for the cheeky subject header.  Just getting your attention, dear GM member.

I bought a pair of book ends today, and was wondering if you might know a maker?  Quite sure they're deco but will stand corrected if not.

TIA, as ever,
Stu.

[Tinker-Taylor]

Seems my buyer knew that they were approx mid 19th century dumps.   

Had I known, then I maybe would have kept them.   

C'est la vie, non?     

[Lustrousstone]

They're not dumps (http://www.glassencyclopedia.com/glassdumps.html), but yes probably Victorian and mantle ornaments

[Tinker-Taylor]

Oh right - that's cool.  My buyer said that they are called dumps because the glass is "dumped" into a one-sided mould and then pressed in with a metal tool.  I will provide him with your link.  Regardless, I would have kept them if I knew they were Victorian.  Oh well.

 

[Mosquito]

I've seen a few of these around lately at fairs, maybe just chance, but it makes me suspicious they are being reproduced. Did yours have much wear?

[Lustrousstone]

glass is "dumped" into a one-sided mould and then pressed in with a metal tool.

That's more or less how all pressed glass is made. A gob of glass falls into a mould and a metal plunger then presses it to shape. Sounds like your buyer is a reseller not a collector. Que sera

[Tinker-Taylor]

Steven - I've known these to have been in my supplier's shop for a couple of years (before I thought about collecting glass).  That doesn't suggest they're not repro though, admittedly.  I wonder.  Oh well...

Stu 

[Tinker-Taylor]

Christine - I agree, and that's what I thought regarding dumps too.  He's probably got a shop in the US (they've gone there).

 

[jsmeasell]

Is there a joint mark, probably running the length of the body? I can't see how these could be made in a "dump mould" (we call it "flow mould"), as the piece could not relieve from such a mould after the glass has set up.

[Tinker-Taylor]

No joint mark that I recall (they're on a plane to the States now).  The non-impressed side was completely smooth and clear, suggesting that it was allowed to find it's own level.

Stu.