Topic: 1928 Army and Navy Catalogue - Glass Section

[neilh]

This set includes cocktail glasses with a bird on them... surely a known design?

[neilh]

This is the last of the set... do say if you spot anything so we can assign pattern number ranges to manufacturers etc...

[Ekimp]

In the 2nd photo in reply 11, the first decanter looks the same as the Stuart one shown in the advertisement in the link below. The cutting of the items in the second photo of reply 4 looks the same. The glasses at the bottom of the first photo in reply 10 look to be a variation of the wine glass in the link.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Stuart_and_Sons

[neilh]

Good spot - it looks like everything numbered between about 20000 to 24000 could be Stuart Crystal, meaning the best part of 100 examples of their work shown, including those distinctive cocktail glasses.

[Ekimp]

Yes, seems reasonable, don’t know if there are catalogs of the period available to check. If you search ‘stuart crystal cockerel’ there are similar glasses to your bird designs.

[flying free]

Somewhere on the board there are some references to the Stuart designs in the Harrods catalogue pages.
I have some of the Harrods pages so was cross checking the Harrods codes against Stuart pieces.  I only bought the Harrods pages with the peacock eye designs on though - they turned out to be Stuart.  I think there was the odd Whitefriars piece in there.  Stuart seems to have been extremely good at stocking the department stores during this first decade of the 1900s.

[flying free]

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=71514.0;attach=247029

Page 807 - those numbering codes I believe fall in between numbered codes on pieces of Stuart in the Harrods catalogue for 1907.

There are 'peacock eye' type vases with various names that Harrods call for example The "English Jewel" decoration and The Original English " Peacock" decoration and I am  pretty sure they are all Stuart.  All fall into 14000s, 15000s, 16000s and 17000s in terms of code number.

[flying free]

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=71514.0;attach=247137

page 809 - 1601 is Webb Corbett:

see page 29 -
https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Webb-Corbett-1910.358+B6YmFja1BJRD0zNTgmcHJvZHVjdElEPTE0Mzk5JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html

[flying free]

Perhaps misleading/red herring, but curious anyway
The type face on the letters and numbers in bold on this page E294 under the set of bonnet glasses
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=71514.0;attach=247121


looks similar to the typeface on the 1910 catalogue for Webb Corbett:
See page 24 for examples with a T prefix
https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Webb-Corbett-1910.358+B6YmFja1BJRD0zNTgmcHJvZHVjdElEPTE0NDA0JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html

[neilh]

Interesting point on the Harrods 1907 catalogue. I have the glass section of the 1907 Army Navy catalogue saved off and it is full of glass numbered between 14000-17000. From what you say it sounds like these store catalogues are like one big Stuart pattern book going through the years for cut glass. I have pages from the Harrods 1913 catalogue with quite a few pieces in the 18000s, this must be Stuart again. This is very useful for attribution, particularly the 1907 catalogue, as this contains quite a few decorative flower tubes, emerald coil decoration and so on, which is otherwise impossible to pin on any company.