Topic: Glass salt id please

[brucebanner]

Hello there can anyone help me with any info on this salt, or at least that's what i think it is, age, maker etc,  it has a polished pontil and wear to two point on the glass on the base i have tried to show in the last photo, regards Chris.

[brucebanner]

It's 3 inches in height, 3 1/2 inches across the rim and 2 3/4 inches across the base.

[keith]

Recently saw a blue to clear step cut vase listed as Webbs,if I remember right,on ebay and considering your location you never know,

[Paul S.]

sorry, can't add anything of real use, other than to say unlikely to be from the period it's shape is suggesting, but it's interesting and a nice piece of glass.   

Boat shaped salts with some sort of saw tooth or scalloped rim were one of many reproductions of Georgian table glass made during the first third of the C20  -  copies of C18 glass were a big thing by, for example, Hill Ouston in the early 1930's, although I get the impression most were clear glass only.
Keith's suggestion of Thomas Webb is a possibiliy, but others apart from T/Webb did use this blue, and I would have thought finding a maker to be very long odds.
If the cutting looks to be in unusually good condition, then unlikely to be prior to the C20  -  earlier cut salts tend not to survive without some indication of a hard life.

[brucebanner]

Ok thanks for that guys, i have another one of these i'll put on later i think that's Georgian, looking at what Paul has said but it has a rather Victorian looking base or might be 1930's in date.

[keith]

There is a Webb Corbett visitor centre at the Ruskin Centre with a gentleman called Ian Dury,not the singer who knows a lot about local glass,he might be able to help,