Topic: Another Sowerby? Vase

[NevB]

 Another like the one I posted on 9/3. This one is green, 6 1/2" tall and slightly wider across the rim, density is 2.68gms/cm3., with loads of wear on the base. Again very similar to the Sowerby 1029 pattern pieces in the 1874 catalogue.

http://www.victorianpressedglass.com/pdf/sowerby/sowerby_1874_add.pdf

I would guess there were more pieces in this design than the three shown, perhaps earlier than 1874, I will have to look for a sugar bowl to compare them

[neilh]

It's often better to get a non-uranium one for density testing if they exist. I recently picked up a vase of this general type - different design - in blue. It gave a density I would expect from the northeast 1860s. My view is that all of these uranium vases are 1860s northeast, based also off the Sowerby pattern number of 733 for that other vase. This is a breakthrough in itself as previously, folk were unsure of the age of these vases, guesses ranging all the way from 1860s to 1930s.

[NevB]

Thanks Neil, that fits in with my thoughts it could be earlier than 1874, we just need a catalogue to confirm it!