Topic: Mottled Glass Vase Impressed Mark - ID = Uredale Glass

[Howard52]

Can somebody help with this one.
Mottled glass vase with an impressed mark.
Looks like a letter P but my wife says it could just as easily be a cat!!
I feel sure someone can solve an argument.
Hope for clarification.
Thanks, Howard

[flying free]

hi, your photos are too small to enlarge to see detail
I can see 1984 or 1989 etched on the bottom photo though.

[Howard52]

The vas is 15cm tall with a diameter of 9cm

[chopin-liszt]

I think it is detail we need to see .

To bring an etched mark up for photography, try rubbing a little talcum powder over it.
If you haven't got talc, cornflour or ground cinnamon would do.
Just something you can get to stay in the mark that will easily wash off.

I rather suspect the black marks that look a bit cat-like are just the way some canes which were added at one point to form part of the design, have ended up squidged on the base. It does not look deliberate and humans just have a habit of trying to make random images make sense. Hence all the "miraculous faces in toast" stuff. 
It also helps a lot to tilt the flat base towards the light, so that the flat part reflects light off itself and reveals your slightly deeper talcum powdered marks clearly.

[suzygpr]

To me it looks like a glass blower, maybe.
See the entry for Corning
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/marka-c.htm

Other makers have used an impressed image of a glass blower, so it may not be identical to yours.

[Howard52]

Thanks for the replies. I have taken more photos using cornflour to enhance the impressed mark.

[Greg.]

Think this mark is the Uredale mark.

[Anne]

The Uredale impressed mark is visible on this post if you want to compare it with yours Howard .... https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,63606.msg356845.html#msg356845
and on this one too...
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,63732.msg357421.html#msg357421

[Howard52]

Great, that's the mark.
Uredale it is!

Many thanks for your help.

[Anne]

Glad we could recolve it Howard.