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Author Topic: Webb bullseye pattern.  (Read 2717 times)

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Offline glassobsessed

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2020, 09:02:31 AM »
Under the impression if English and uranium glass then far more likely to be 1930s or earlier rather than 1950s or later. How often do cut patterns appear on Bullseye of any type? Can't remember seeing one before.

Grinding or cutting uranium is potentially risky, last thing you need in your lungs is uranium dust...

John

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2020, 02:01:09 PM »
According to Hajdamach, this could be Webb's "Gay glass".
The bullseye pattern is part of this, although the pics illustrated in the old advert photographed  only shows bullseye in Evergreen, the blurb says Old English Bullseye was made in all colours.
I think you may have a piece of Sunshine Amber, and it would be from the '30s.

It's kind of hard to tell from your pics, Keith because Bullseye is much thicker than the other patterns. I'm used to seeing finely blown Sunshine Amber, not thickly blown stuff.

But something in your vase "sings" to me.
Perhaps it was the green hints, perhaps it's the actual sunniness of the Sunshine Amber?
Or just a general shrieking of top quality?  ;D
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2020, 02:31:13 PM »
those who suggest the 1930s may well be correct - have to say my thoughts on date may lacked book corroboration and I took to guessing and memory, which unreliable  -  in fact I couldn't find the Sunshine Amber and Gay glass page in Hajdamach for love nor money when I was looking last evening.                  In truth my thoughts were swayed by the fact that Irene Stevens take on this motif, called 'Wheat-ear' was a 1950s invention for W.C., although obviously Kny's 'Ellesmere' and 'Woodchester' go back much further in date. 

Perhaps Keith can tell us the date range for T.W's 'Bull's Eye' ;)               I've never seen Bull's Eye with any sort of cut or engraved decoration either  -  I think this is probably quite a rare piece.

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2020, 02:54:26 PM »
I had to flick through the tome, looking for the advert - knowing it's at the bottom of a right hand page. The index is useless.
Page 141. The caption undeneath says 1933 for Gay Glass.
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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2020, 03:32:36 PM »
Just for John, here's a bulleye 'lily pattern  ;D ;D

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2020, 03:40:32 PM »
Nice one Keith, I am all a quiver!

Webb did change their mark from time to time, scroll down for a bunch here:
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/markt-z.htm#W

Even if the dates are not 100% accurate the variations of mark give a strong clue.


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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2020, 05:20:09 PM »
I thought it was archers that did it with a quiver ;)

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2020, 07:58:07 PM »
Both have the 35-49 mark.

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2020, 08:00:14 PM »
Them too Paul. ;D

Should have guessed that you were hiding two more up your sleeves Keith!

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Re: Webb bullseye pattern.
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2020, 08:18:45 PM »
Keith, is the actual colour of the glass correct for Sunshine Amber?
Getting away from it's uranium content, is there the neccessary "rosy glow" present?

Do we know when folk stopped cutting or etching Uranium glass because of the safety elfs?

Wiki says availability of Uranium was severely curtailled during the wars  ~ '40

The mark being from '35 on, Gay Glass being introduced in '33, suggests to me this might be from the earlier end.
I don't know when they stopped making Gay Glass. The only info. I can find is in the photo of the catalogue page reproduced.
There seems to be nothing in the text.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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