Topic: Walsh Fruiting Vine Pattern Glass

[NevB]

I think this is a sherry/port glass in Walsh's Fruiting Vine pattern, amber uranium glass. At 6" tall it appears to be a smaller version of the A4197 wine glass shown in f.260 of the pattern book in Eric Reynolds book. There is also a photo pl.16 P.45. It has the "Walsh" mark indicating a date from 1926-30 although I do wonder whether they used this mark before it was actually registered in 1926.

[Paul S.]

would agree, and a very nice glass too.    I could murder for a decanter in this pattern/colour, plus a set of six glasses.         What gives rise to your thoughts about a possible earlier use of this mark?             Sorry, I couldn't find the f. No.  any idea of the page please.

[NevB]

Thanks Paul, the photos don't quite do it justice, it's even nicer in the flesh. Reynolds says Walsh started making fruiting vine in the late 1910's and I thought my glass and the mark might be from that time, however they did make the pattern for quite a while. Sorry I should have put fig.260 which is on P.101, left hand page.

[Paul S.]

thanks  -  I'd have thought unlikely that Reynolds was wrong in his comments regarding the commencement dates of the back stamps, though as with all such factory marks there is the possibility of a leeway of a year or two, but not back to c. 1910.    Looks like fruiting vine was popular and had quite a long life span, like some other of their patterns.      Walsh was a high end production and it's a shame we can't find the stuff as commonly as we see T/Webb, Edinburgh, or Stuart.           Agree with you re the similarity of A4197 to fruiting vine, but there appears not to be a pattern name in the pattern book for that particular glass - unless I've missed it  -  as it is I had to use a lens to see the wording - am I reading the word butterfly?, and some of the wording is impossible to decipher, but there's no doubting the almost identical appearance.        Fruiting vine is more attractive I think than Kenilworth, of which I have two or three, and which appears more staid and less arty.

[NevB]

Yes Paul I thought it might be "butterfly blue", apparently blue was the most popular colour. I can't see a pattern name either.