Topic: Moon Crater Glassware? Stennett Willson Design?

[Mtessner]

Can you tell me if these are a Ronald Stennett Willson design called Moon Craters, design to commemorate the moon landing of 1969?

[Paul S.]

Hi - welcome to the GMB .            Kings Lynn Glass was founded in 1967 by Stennett-Willson, and taken over by Wedgwood in 1969, and made pieces such as the Snowflake vase, for example, which has a similar slightly abstract patterned surface, so it might be thought something like your glasses could be from that factory.
Unfortunately, Susan Tobin's book doesn't index such a description, and I can't see anything in the Appendices or the coloured plates, and I've a feeling that hers is the only book available  ...............   most people seem to collect either the glass fauna or the clear glass material.
Susan Tobin's book seems fairly comprehensive for clear glass and animals, but may lack some of the coloured items ...............    the Snowflake vase for example is not included in the book, so it's not impossible these might be from Wedgwood.

Are you able to explain how or why you've made this potential connection between these glasses and Stennett-Willson? 

[Anne]

Hello and welcome to the board.  Your pic is too small for me to be able to see yours clearly enough, but we do have an image of Moon Crater on the board in a much earlier topic here, so you could compare them and let us know if it's a match. http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6625.0.html

[Mtessner]

Hello and welcome to the board.  Your pic is too small for me to be able to see yours clearly enough, but we do have an image of Moon Crater on the board in a much earlier topic here, so you could compare them and let us know if it's a match. http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6625.0.html

Thank you for your response.  I still am not certain as to what I have.  All the posts and references talk about vases.  What I have is a set of tumblers.  So, I still am uncertain.  My tumblers also have vertical lines--not necessarily straight-- on each vase, also and I don't see those sorts of lines on these vases.  The colors of the glasses do not include the blue as shown in the vases. 

[Anne]

Without better larger images of yours showing the pattern properly I think we'll struggle to find a definite answer. If you can add more pics showing them better that would help.

[Paul S.]

from the limited size of the image, in the o.ps. first post, my thoughts are that these aren't a match for those shown in the link.        However, thanks for adding that link Anne  -  some long time ago ................   I should take my own advice and look on the Board's search archive.

[glassobsessed]

Another image showing Moon vases here: http://www.ronaldstennettwillson.com/Vases%20Moon.html

If the size stated there is correct they come in at least two different sizes, never seen any tumblers with this pattern though and these don't look like quite the same pattern.

John