Topic: What have you found on your travels?? Anything exciting??L@@k...

[Paul S.]

heavens above - certainly not - but wouldn't want our 'fun' to be spoiled - so look forward to hearing more from you soon

This early single word backstamp can be found in several of the books, so no need to struggle photographing what is obviously a poor mark on your piece - I'm sure someone has added it to the Glass Gallery, but have to admit that I still haven't checked.

T/Webb's 'Water Wave' is one of their C19 patterns, and according to C.H. started life in 1886 - and in the flesh for me, at least, it has that rather indeterminate and vague look  -  probably just like water I suppose.
The original T/Webb factory drawing, submitted to the Board of Trade in 1886 and first Registered on 08.10.1886 under Rd. No. 58375, does however have quite a defined sort of patterning  -  I think the problem is that when it's transferred to glass then somehow the distinctiveness is lost.
I've shown the original factory drawing for Water Wave before, but in case anyone is vaguely interested then here it is again.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=59074.0;attach=169618

Sorry to have possibly killed-off the fun aspect of this thread bat - perhaps someone would like to tell a risqué joke and bring it back.
My congratulations on having a wife who helps you with up-loading  - might you consider sharing her with other GMB members who are less fortunate?

[bat20]

Call me old old fashioned Paul but I'm not into wife sharing just yet,I found it on a sunny Sunday morning and the mark stood out really well at a certain angle ,when I returned home however i couldn't find it!Thanks for the info much appreciated 

[bat20]

Has to be said ,a poor photo,looks a lot stronger pattern in the flesh.

[Paul S.]

oh, I don't know  -  think your missus takes a pretty good snap - particularly like the fence, nicely in focus and colour looks realistic.    -   clear glass is always the most difficult to photograph.

I hate to be Mr. Picky but.........    are you really sure this is Water Wave  -  looks possible like one of the other Webb patterns.

Edited to add......     which illustration/book are you using for an id?

[bat20]

 ???ahh,not wave then,I'm using the bat20 random stabs in the dark reference book,not in print yet but a must for all glass numpties.I take the photos then have to give them to my wife to upload and then email to me,it's an apple thing on iPads,not even their card reader will work with mine and I've been down there and asked,something about new updates making old apps redundant,blah blah blah,probably just trying too make people buy a new one every few years or so.

[Drinkwater]

I suggest a thread called catch of the day.

Today I found:
Homegaard Vase, orange
2 glasses from a danish artist called Iben Kjellberg looking like lady beetles
a green wmf-vlg-zwiesel or so vase
a extrem showy depression glass bowl with blackberries
and a brass tablett, if permitted to talk about, made by Georg Mendelssohn Dresden Hellerau, years 1920/30
I know, bad fotos

http://up.picr.de/21487829ud.jpg

http://up.picr.de/21487830pt.jpg

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[essi]

Is it just me or does anybody else get tunnel vision when they see a fine bit of glass on a shelf which everybody else has missed.
It happened to me with this piece and a whitefriars sunspot.
Happy days.

[bat20]

This kind of thread makes you feel we need some sort of "like"button,so people can respond without clogging up the thread.

[Anne]

Sorry you'll have to carry on clogging it up, "Like" buttons are for Facebook not here.

[Anne]

Beijing Antique Mall in May, 2014:
loads of wood carvings, ceramics, china, lacquer ware, embroideries, paintings, coins etc. - and one single piece of pressed glass 

Pamela that is nice! Do you know who made it please?

I did like Anne's mirrors - very stylish.

Thank you kind sir!