Topic: Is my hand blow pitcher a Whitefriars please?

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Paul, can't wait until Thursday lol - so here's the tankard

6 point star, straight lines rather than curvy swags etc, etc

opinion? Ribbonette? also have matching brown glasses and jug from original post in same pattern- it would be nice to tie it up once and for all

Mel

[Anne]

Yes, probably Webb, they're on the board already somewhere. They come in various colours, I have a brown one, and someone (Chris?) has them in various colours.

Edited to add link to earlier topic: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5922.0.html

[Paul S.]

does look like Ribbonette Mel.             These indistinct patterns are not easy to photograph, and with Ribbonette it's always best to include a picture viewed from above, so that the six point design can be seen.           The colour seems to match the blue Ribbonette jug in the W/Fs.com link given by Emmi (reply #9 dated 21.01.13 in thread headed 'sapphire glass')  -  both jp and Emmi were of the opinion that this Webb's 'blue' does not quite match W/Fs blue  -  fortunately the moulded patterns are such that it's easy to differentiate the two factories.                Obviously your pieces are without a backstamp  -  irritating that Webb didn't mark all their material.

Unfortunately, just to complicate matters there is a another pattern from Thomas Webb (definitely Webb as there is a backstamp), which is slightly remeniscent of the Woodchester look - and which is sometimes called 'Conifer', although think I've also seen it called 'Water' - but I'm not really sure that it does have a factory name.          It certainly doesn't have that distinctiveness of Ribbonette  -  I'll try and post some pix later today.

Anne  -  I was mostly teasing  -  don't give it a second thought.

Chris seems to have done very well acquiring his Ribbonette tankards  -  looks a good collection.

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 Anne, I remember reading that thread earlier in the year, thanks for reminding me

Paul, yes a devil to photo, you're right there

 - don't confuse me any more - woodchester? water? argh!! lol

Ok, well I'll go with 'probably' Webb Ribbonette' then

thanks all,


Mel

[Anne]

I'll try not to, Paul, but you know I'm such a sensitive soul and... and...