Topic: Jack in the Pulpit

[Rhonda Clifton]

So far I've established that the base was made by Berliner Electroplating in the 1920's.

I'm assuming that Alderton and Co. England made the glass top.

Q1  Would you say the top is Carnival glass, or encased glass.
Q2  Google as much as I like I cannot find anything about Alderton's - would anyone be able to shed any light on who, when and where.

TIA for any help you can provide.

[Rhonda Clifton]

top view

[Rhonda Clifton]

base

[glassobsessed]

Welcome to the message board Rhonda.

When I see an object like yours my first thought is that it has been repaired. We sometimes forget with our throw away culture that people used to repair and re use stuff instead of binning.

Surely the maker of the metal is Alderman & Co, B.E.P. could well be for 'British' Electro Plate or some other B.

Yours looks like it started life as part of an epergne, much like this:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/356347389250001490/

More here: http://www.carnivalheaven.com/carnivalglass102/id105.htm

Maker of the glass looks like Northwood.

John

[NevB]

There was a German factory but they generally marked their pieces BEPWF, Berliner-Electro-Plated-Waren-Fabrik. I can't find Alderman & Co. anywhere so they could be a manufacturer or an importer.

[Lustrousstone]

The glass could be Webb or Walsh Walsh; they both made this sort of iridised epergne horn

[Scott13]

   Of course it may not have been repaired —in the 1920s/1930s it seems that quite a few vases etc were sold with their metal bases.
 I have one very similar to the ones in the link and it has its own metal base —I’ve also seen others from the same period...........
https://www.20thcenturyglass.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=73_110&products_id=9843

Scott

[Lustrousstone]

Not like that though. They were usually more elegant and delicate. Those Bagley vases in the link are probably closer to 1950s than 1930s