Topic: Can anyone ID this glass plate please

[seanduxbury]

Hi. Does any recognise this glass plate (maker & date). Found in West Yorkshire, when I first saw it I thought it was a piece of 1960's / 1970's Chance but I cannot find any reference to this particular pattern in my Chance reference book.

It's a large plate - measures 31 cms in diameter.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[David E]

No, it's definitely not Chance, but as to who made it is anyone's guess. You have a choice of three main European makers (although I acknowledge there are almost certainly many more smaller ones):
VEB Obernau (East Germany
Spiegelunion Flabeg (West Germany)
Flamingo Halfweg ("Benelux", although most likely Dutch)

Within the UK there is Webb Crystal, based in London. I have found out that the company was still fabricating slumped glass into the 1970s. You then have distributors: Jones & Co, Astra, etc.

Sadly, until catalogues or company records become available it will be very difficult to assign any maker to these unknown plates.

[Lustrousstone]

and of course Joseph Joseph and the US makers

[David E]

True, but I do think this plate is European. It's too early for JJ (2002 onwards) and definitely not a pattern I recognise from them. US makers are usually more 'gilt-ridden' 

I'm guessing – with a wet finger in the air, and with the wind behind me – that it's 1970-80s.

[seanduxbury]

Thanks - thought it would be a tricky one to ID.  Date wise I'm more inclined to 1970's - if you look at fabric prints from late 1960's early 1970's you can see similarities in the sort of designs.  Any thoughts