Topic: Victorian uranium glass beaker help please.

[brucebanner]

This is my third post today i thought i would give you all something to do, it's been a bit quiet on here lately. I have a set of these i picked up today for 60p from the ten pence shelf at the local charity shop, they appear to have a shear mark and wear to the base and a nice ring. Two are uranium glass.

There 4 inches in height  2 3/4 inches across the rim and 2 inches across the base.

 

[Lustrousstone]

I would look at Walsh (they liked that fine spiral rib) or Webb

[mrvaselineglass]

I have a shorter version of the uranium example.  Mine is same shape and color and is 2.75 inches tall.  It is a dead ringer for Webb's Sunshine Amber (or did they call it sunshine yellow? - I forget).  99.9% chance it is Webb.  I bought the one I have in the UK (only trip I made) and this was one I brought home with me.  The dealer I bought it from told me it was Webb, and I have seen other Webb pieces (but not of this pattern) that are a color match. 

Dave Peterson

[brucebanner]

Thanks for that, we were discussing this colour in another post i put on about two ?Webb vases. If this is Sunshine Yellow i have a few different bit's in the same colour it looks like uranium glass to me, i packed half my collection away before Christmas and a lot was uranium glass, i had a display with a UV strip light.

[Lustrousstone]

Sunshine amber is what the Webb version is called and it's uranium glass. There are other amber and yellowy amber uranium variants by Webb and by other companies

[Paul S.]

Having seen perhaps 20 - 30 pieces of T/Webb Gay glass 'Sunshine Amber', I believe all were finished with a ground/polished depression under the foot - although not all pieces of T/Webb carry the factory backstamp.

The base of the uranium example above doesn't look to me like the sort of base finish that might be expected to be seen on something from this factory.

I've not seen that many pieces from Walsh, and don't now recall whether they retailed pieces showing the shears mark............. I know that the few Pompeian examples I've had were finished with a ground/polished depression under the base.

[Lustrousstone]

Walsh also had completely unfinished pontil marks sometimes. It might be useful to see all the colours Chris

[brucebanner]

I have been opening boxes for charity shop donations and found these in my unit, can not find the fourth but from memory it was green, all have the shear mark on them (which some call a gadget mark) and one looks Webbs golden amber, the other Stuart blue and one is pink. Ive actually found a glass with a gadget mark i'll put a pick on here a Cranberry rummer, a horse shoe shape on top of the foot.

[Paul S.]

I see  -  getting to the glass at source eh!!               I think we did eventually - after eons of misunderstandings and searching -  manage to get a pic of a gadget mark (on the top of the foot as you say) some time back  -  am sure it will come up if you do a search.     The Y shaped mark on the underside is the shears mark - so no excuse now to call it by any other name               Another pic of a gadget mark won't go amiss though.

Nice pieces.