Topic: "English" Duck salt

[RosyHoN590]

Hi, please can anyone here give any clues to identifying the maker of this little milk glass duck with eggs covered salt please?  Purchased in the UK - it definitely has some age to it and the details on the moulding are amazing.  Nobody in my online HoN group knows the maker, but the only clues (an old sale catalogue and a magazine article in the USA) refer to it as the "English duck".  The dish is 10 cm / 4"  and any clues would be appreciated!  Thank you, Rosy 

[NevB]

Hello, have a good look and feel around inside and out to see if it's got a Registered Design Lozenge or Mark which can be very helpful. I can't find the design but it is probably mid/late Victorian and may not be English. If you have access to an Ultra Violet light it might glow green indicating Uranium glass.

[Anne E.B.]

Hi and welcome
If you have spare time, then a search through this website showing different countries might bring something up. There are covered salts as well.  I had a quick shufty through the U.K. ones that are shown, but couldn't spot yours. http://opensalts.us/References/Catalogs/catalogs-England.html  Its always a useful website to bookmark anyway.

[RosyHoN590]

Hello thank you both - Nev and Anne,

Sadly, there is no maker lozenge (no mark at all).  For that period Nev does that suggest to you that it's not likely to be by an English maker?   if it was to be English, the only thing it reminds me of a tiny tiny bit is the Henry Greener cow.  something in the detail.  But I can't see where you can handily find Greener designs?  I don't think it is Von Streit, but it does remind me a bit with the flared rim so I'm wondering if German is more likely.

And Anne many thanks I will have a trawl through these (I have seen them before but forget about them a bit as my usual go to for catalogues first is glas-musterbuch, also, I am usually looking for hens not ducks!). 

ps .....Also, it doesn't glow which is a shame...

[NevB]

https://www.yobunny.org.uk/glassgallery/thumbnails.php?album=1031&page=1    . This link shows some Greener designs. Not all pieces of the time had RD lozenges so there's a good chance it could still be English. I did think it might be French, someone like Portieux/Vallerysthal, but it's just a guess.