Topic: ST KILDA GLASS JAPAN

[StephD]

Hi All
I have a large glass vase and it has a sticker on it which says "ST Kilda Glass Japan" but ive searched for any info on maker and cannot come up with any info ? ANY IDEAS Welcome ...i tried to post a pic of vase but system said file too big
Many Thanks Steph
 

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[Anne]

Hi Steph, welcome to the board.  We have a help topic on how to resize photos to fit the board's size limits http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34093.0.html - if you can't get them to work though feel free to email copies to me and I'll resize them and add them to your post for you.

[ahremck]

If you fail to get a satisfactory result here can I suggest this Facebook Group that I run.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/879947122062872

Ross

[NevB]

I thought St. Kilda was curious name for Japanese glass, but I see it's also a suburb of Melbourne, which might be a clue.

[ahremck]

Correct it is indeed a suburb of Melbourne. 

It is also a remote island off the West Coast of Scotland.

And it is also used as its initials in certain Scottish paperweights - StK.  My memory fails me as to the actual maker but I know they exist. 

Huh, here is a quote that clears up where I knew it from - "John Deacons, another Scottish glass worker, also started his glassmaking career at Strathearn Glass in 1967.  A year later in 1968, he left Strathearn and joined the new Perthshire venture.  After about ten years at Perthshire he decided to leave and start his own company, Jay Glass, in 1978, which remained in operation until 1983.  During that period, it produced paperweights under the Jay Glass label and also others signed St.K for St. Kilda and JD for John Deacons.  John Deacons continues to make paperweights under his own label today."


Ross

[ahremck]

A little more information re St Kilda, Scotland can be found in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirta

Hirta is the largest island of the St Kilda archipelago.  The last permanent inhabitants were removed in 1930 but tourism is still active.  Particularly interesting is this line from the Wikipedia - 

"In 1764 (according to the Census),[23] there were 90 St Kildans, 105 in 1841, and 112 in 1851. The following year, 36 left for Australia, financed by the Highland and Island Emigration Society.[24] By the 1861 census, the population was only 71; by 1911 it was 74, and 43 by 1927, declining to 36 by 1930." 

St Kilda was named by Charles La Trobe, then superintendent of the Port Phillip District, after a schooner, Lady of St Kilda, which moored at the main beach in early 1842.[3]

The schooner Lady of St Kilda was named in honour of Lady Grange, who was imprisoned by her husband between 1734 and 1740 on the island of Hirta, the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland.

So there was a vague connection to the Scottish location.

Ross