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Some new Vaseline Glass - ID needed

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Leni:
I love these David!   :shock:  The blue flowers on the pair of pink-lined vases are particularly nice!   :shock:  :D

Like much of the Stourbridge vaseline, the acanthus leaves were done by quite a few people and sometimes they are difficult to pin down to a particular glasshouse.  What are the bases / pontil marks like?  

I have a couple of these applied work vases, and the mine with an acanthus leaf is definitely Stevens & Williams (because of the flower prunt on the pontil), but they were also made 'on the continent'.  You will notice even Great Glass only attributes most of the applied work as 'English' and some of that with a question mark!   :shock:  :roll:

Bernard C:
What lovely glass — I am most envious.

This style is very difficult to attribute accurately.   Narrowing it down a little, I understand that the style was not made by Powell / Whitefriars, so it is reasonable to describe it as "Stourbridge", if, like Hajdamach, you include Walsh and Smart Brothers, both only a few miles from Stourbridge, in that classification.

Hadjamach had great difficulty finding fully attributable examples, only showing examples by Stuart and S&W, including a further example decorated with S&W's Mat-Su-No-Ke flowers.   Reynolds has published a photograph of a Walsh example in his collection, marked with Rd. No. 74556 (see also p22 of the Thompson supplement, bound in with the main volume in recent printings).    Apart from these no other published example (print or Internet) known to me has included any reasonable explanation of the basis of attribution, and that includes the example attributed to S&W on the back cover of Newby, my only criticism of this otherwise excellent book, although I believe this particular attribution to be correct because of the similarity of the flower with the marked example in Hajdamach.

Further evidence of confusion is that such unsubstantiated attributions tend to vary according to whether the item is in the USA or Britain, with the authorities in the two countries having their own particular favourites.

Like Leni, above, I understand that these styles were also made elsewhere in Europe.

Bernard C.  8)

David555:
Thank you everyone for your responses

Boutlon & Mills looks good from photo shown by Ruth - especially the base.

Thanks Ivo and Bernard and everyone else with your input on the two applied work vases - I agree that there being slight differences only goes to show the hand made quality.

So Stourbridge, or somewhere within that region - but keeping my mind open to a continental maker.

The blue, pink and yellow remind me of majolica pottery!!!

Great stuff to go on - any more visits to this dealer and I will be joining the Vaseline glass board LOL - I do like such pieces and must get some black light for the shelves where they sit.

My collecting has always been 1920's on with an emphasis on 1960s - so this is new exciting territory for me.

Adam P :P  :P

Lustrousstone:
I think the jury is still out on the jug, Barrie Skelcher (Big Book of Vaseline Glass) would probably say, probably Stevens and Williams and the Earthlink site has no Stevens and Williams at all to compare with

David555:
Hi Christine

I have much to learn - the jug on the link http://home.earthlink.net/~verredart4/glass/EnglishApplique.html looks exactly the same as mine and calls it Boulton & Mills - are you saying S&W did a jug the same (give me 1930s 'Candy Stripe' please LOL) - the size is different, the one on the earthlink site is taller - I am realising that these factories made almost identical items in 1890s, almost as bad as 1960s LOL.

For my second items (vases) what do you think - again there are comparible pieces on earthlink by Boulton & Mills?

I don't know how reliable the attributions on this site are :?

Thanks

Adam P

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