Topic: Need help identifying mark on hand blown glass pot/urn

[MomMomC]

Hi, everyone. I'm hoping someone can help me. I inherited a pot/urn/teapot (not sure what to call it). It was my grandmothers and before she passed away, she gave it to her brother. When he was diagnosed with cancer, he gave it to me. It sat on my grandmother's hutch for as long as I can remember and I'm over 50, so I know it's much older than that. We both tried to read the markings and look it up, but we were unable to find anything.

It is handblown glass and appears to be hand-painted. It is about 12 inches high and 12 inches across from handle to handle and its widest area. Can anyone help me figure out what the marking says or what this is particular "pot" is called? Any help would be appreciated.

[Anne]

Hello and welcome to the board! The wording is on the metal I presume from your picture? Century is presumably the metal part maker and the wording below is Pat. Applied For which means a patent, so it would be worth searching the patent registries for Century to see if you can find a match.

[Paul S.]

hello - welcome to the GMB.                 Not for tea I wouldn't have thought and probably not a dispenser for alcohol  -  more likely to be a water filter which would have used a carbon block of some form and the taps of these things were often silver plated.
Such gadgets were common in the second half of the C19, and this one I'd imagine dates from somewhere in that period, but difficult to be more precise unless you can find the exact pattern in a catalogue.

[jsmeasell]

Do a Google search for 'Paden City glass samovar' and then look at the various 'images' that are available. I think you will see this exact shape (the metal parts will vary widely, so ignore those and just concentrate on the shape of the glass). These sorts of things were also made at Cambridge Glass, and both the Paden City and the Cambridge versions date from the 1920s.

[Paul S.]

thanks James  -  regret I remain ignorant of such things - and lots besides I suspect  -  so for people like me here is a little information.

A true samovar (Russian for 'self-boil' apparently), was a metal urn/container (not glass) for boiling water - typically -  for tea, and some examples are complex in their arrangement for boiling and integral container for the tea concentrate etc.               The glass variants, like many adaptions of utility items for domestic use are attractive, but it occurs to me to wonder if those made of glass such as the one here have been used for boiling water? -  or simply for dispensing the ready made tea  -  Would C19 glass withstand repeated boiling?

I know we should be tolerant  -  but the word faucet does grate so.

[chopin-liszt]

It always make me think of Farrah Tap-Major.