Topic: Josef Inwald 'Jacobean' footed sweet

[Anne E.B.]

I'm sure these are Inwald's Jacobean footed sweets spotted on an old Mabane's (Leeds) advert shown on Glen's www.carnivalglassworldwide.com (bottom left). 
Also seen on a 1940s Inward catalogue on the web.
Am I correct

[Paul S.]

appreciate I'm not the brightest pin the box this week Anne but, ...........   are you saying this picture is a repro of an advert   -  what is the 'bottom left' that we're supposed to be looking at  -  is it this picture?

Have some memory that the criteria for these being Inwald is that they should have the mirror finish to the flat part of the foot.

sorry if I'm being dim.

[Lustrousstone]

I won't comment on your mental faculties... but here is the ad Anne is referring to http://www.carnivalglassworldwide.com/read-all-about-it1.html

Looks good to me Anne

[Paul S.]

what mental faculties  -  I've none this week  -  how did you know where to look for that link  -  suppose you've got me down as thick now.
You've not just spent the morning at Kew, struggling with the Victorians.

I agree they look right  -  but still had this feeling that the mirror finish to the base was part of the package.

thanks

p.s.   oh, I see now  -  it was just that the link didn't come up as blue or whatever it's supposed to be, and had me confused

[Anne E.B.]

Sorry Paul, I didn't get the link right    
Thanks Christine for adding it   and for the thumbs up
They do have the Inwald mirror finish base.  They're very sparkly. 
I like my dessert bowls much much bigger, but two will do at any one time

[Paul S.]

hi Anne  -  certainly they sound legit, especially with those shiny feet.             Make yourself some caramels (from packet mix) with enough for two glasses - place in fridge and when cold and with the consistency of blancmange, add just a little vanilla ice cream  ................          heaven.
then phone me to come and share.

I've come across lots of these Inwald pieces over the past ten years - the large water jugs still pop quite commonly here (there seem to be two or three different designs) - I have a claret jug I bought from Andy you know who from the Antiques Road Show.            Did once start out to collect as many shapes as poss., but like so many things got bored and gave up.              Will try and remember to take photos of those I have and add them to the Board.
If you ever find the table lamp (shown in Miller's) buy it for me as a birthday present, please.            But I like these sweets  -  and don't believe they're that common.

[Anne E.B.]

I think your table lamp, if the same, is shown on a page from a 1929 Clayton Mayer's Jacobean ware which appears in my copy of Pressed Flint Glass by Raymond Notley, page 26.  Shown with oxidised fittings, No.7700, trade price 35/- each with a retail price of 60\- each.  Very nice indeed, but worth a lot more now 

I've just dug this tall jug out of the garage and although I can't find an exact match, I think it might possibly be Inwald too.  I've searched for quite a long period of time without success, hence it being stored in the garage and forgotten about until coming across my footed sweets.  The jug has an octagonal base and the flat rim is shiny just like the sweets.   It has a flat thumb rest on the handle.  I think I'm more likely to use it as a vase rather than a jug, although it just might find its way back to the garage again.

[Paul S.]

nice piece  -  don't think I've seen that shape.               Problem is, I think, that these things register quite high on the boredom scale - they lack colour and look very much a product of the utility era - so rather low in the desirability league.             But, have a feeling they're appealing in the retro sense for those over a certain age to whom anything more than ten years old is an antique

think you're correct with the prices and catalogue No. of the lamp and shade  -  Mr. McConnell told me he'd never seen one, and like you thought they would now fetch big bucks.

Egg cups in this pattern seem to be very common at times, and the rose tinted and amber examples do look better.

[Paul S.]

one of the problems of having glass stored in garden sheds is the problem of sometimes not knowing what you have.              Just looked in my Jacobean picture archive and found the attached .............    I assume it's the same as yours.               Regret don't think I now have the piece.

[Anne E.B.]

It is the same.  I come across lots of incomplete sets of things and think that 's why people dispose of them one way or another.  I usually find these incomplete sets in charity shops/carboot sales.
It can be quite difficult finding a matching replacement.  Its 'sod's law' - I'll get rid of a part set only to find the missing piece some time later