Topic: Pressed glass flower tube - opinions?

[neilh]

I picked up this thin 6 inch high flower tube for a quid in a retro store.. It has a density reading around 3g/cc which suggests 1860ish and decent lead content, but in other respects I'm not so sure, the foot is unusual for that era, and the pattern is more like 1880 or later. There are always quite a few of these available on eBay. Is this Victorian or more recent, does anyone know?

[chopin-liszt]

My grandmother had a couple of these, which ended up passed on.
She didn't tend to keep anything old or valuable and didn't really look after things which were old either.
I would suspect a slightly later date than you mention.

They got used for putting wedding flowery bits for lapels in, or if somebody had been conned into buying some lucky white heather.

[NevB]

The American companies produced a lot of what they called "cane" pattern, I found this one.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/383650461983318180/?mt=login

[neilh]

Thanks Nev, that sounds like a good reason for why there are so many of them, some post 1900 overseas maker flooding the UK market maybe

[NevB]

Of course the attribution may not be correct, it may have been produced over a long period and I think the moulds were often passed on to other companies.