Topic: Can anyone help ID maker of this vase, please?

[zidori]

Thanks Sue. I have a feeling I've come across this design before but my memory fails me. The Channel Islands haven't produced glass like this, have they?
John

[chopin-liszt]

Do you mean Guernsey? That tends to be marked - and the tops very, very frilly - sort of ruffley crimped - but I have not seen or handled very much of it at all.  Then there was St. John's Crystal - but  they tended to stick to emulating Azurene - with silver or gold foil on, and it was mostly animally things...

I've found Gibratar Crystal's web page! (having got confused about how to spell it - I thought the r on the end was just how it is pronounced in England - I didn't think it really existed - then it wanted me to download an adobe thingy that I suspect is not compatible with our pc.  in order to see everything properly.)

http://www.gibraltar-crystal.com/art.html

[zidori]

Doh!  I omitted to tell you that the piece is surface decorated. Apologies for that Senior moment.
John

[chopin-liszt]

I've had a good feel of the little bit in the shop.
It's not nearly as lightweight as flamework; it is probably slightly heavier than Alum Bay. It is surface decorated. The base indents and there is a circular mark - it looks as if the pontil scar has been heat-treated and flattened into a little round - not as if extra blob of glass has been applied, but it results in a circular flat bit.

[zidori]

You are virtually desribing this vase here. The indent has certainly been smoothed although there is still a bit of sharp edging.
John

[chopin-liszt]

I felt guilty about copping a feel and then reporting back here! It was in Oxfam, and I used to be a voluteer there, so I have just bought it.  It's in its original box.
When I defrost enough, I'll get the camera out. 
I suspect, given the weirdness of the base finish, and all the other features, that Gibralter Glass might be your answer. 

[zidori]

Lol - Thanks a lot Sue.
John

[chopin-liszt]

Gibralter glass isn't somthing that we see much of - it's no bad thing to have a reference bit for any future enquiries.
(I still can't get used to the notion that there is a real r at the end of the name!  )