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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: mhgcgolfclub on February 27, 2007, 09:54:49 PM
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I bought this Water Jug complete with 6 glasses I thinking Bagley, I do not have the Bagley book yet, can someone please confirm maker
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/mhgcgolfclub/bag.jpg
thanks Roy
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Roy, we discussed these on this thread:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,8714.msg73814.html#msg73814
Jury's still out! I hope we get some information at some point, they're fabulous items IMHO. :)
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Thanks Max
It difficult to believe that the maker is still unknown, I do remember a couple of years ago a Green Face jug and 2 or 3 glasses selling in Lewes but they were too expensive, I bought these today because I like them and I knew my wife would as I have been looking for a set of 6 yellow / green Sowerby tumbles to go with a jug, seem to see plenty of the Jugs but not many tumblers
Roy
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Roy - what do the tumblers you're looking for look like? Cat
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Hi cat
Difficult for me to describe but matching tumblers for the Art Deco sowerby jug which there are always many of them about , I sure somebody will know and have a picture of one
Roy
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Ah.......I thought maybe you had one and needed more, or had one in another colour you could show me. Always happy to look out for things - these are probably something I wouldn't normally pick up unless I knew someone wanted them. Cat
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Hi cat
Difficult for me to describe but matching tumblers for the Art Deco sowerby jug which there are always many of them about , I sure somebody will know and have a picture of one
Roy
Roy, is this the jug you're meaning? http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-895
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Yes that the one I did have a set once in yellow vaseline but gave them away for a present to a friend only for the wife to decide she wanted another set, have had the jug now for over 2 years but have not seen any tumblers at any fairs except for a pink set
Roy
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Hello,
Just butting in on someone's correspondence: I have that jug in green at least twice maybe three times, so thank you for helping me identify the maker. (I know where two are, and I think there is a third somewhere...)
Roz
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Roy, I've not managed to find tumblers to match mine either yet. :( The jugs seem much more common than the tumblers... I've seen an amber, a blue and a green jug in recent weeks... I'll keep looking! ;)
Roz, Glad it helped. :)
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Hi Roy Are you looking for your Sowerby tumblers with or without uranium? I'll keep my eyes open.
Looking at these face jugs and tumblers (in this message and the other one), the colours certainly look very Bagley. I'm wondering more and more if there aren't quite a few undocumented items out there. I and one of the Anne's have a two part green uranium dish and I've seen and handled a green candlestick, both of which are dead ringers for Bagley green uranium stuff. I would even go as far as to say the candlestick was Queen's Choice, except there isn't supposed to be one - but why just make a powder bowl and nothing else for the dressing table.
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Thanks for the kind offers of looking out for the tumblers, it would be the uranium ones, I think I will not worry too much about them now as I think the face ones are much more intersting and harder to find, if I see any Sowerby tumblers of any colour I will purchase them as I am sure there are many people on the GMB looking out for them to make up sets
Roy
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I think I must be the only person on the GMB who doesn't know what a Sowerby tumbler looks like. There are only 3 on ebay - a uranium daisy, victorian flint, and a malacite one. If anyone has a picture of a "typical" Sowerby tumbler it would be mych appreciated.
Thank you
Cat
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Hi Cat,
What's being discussed is not 'a Sowerby tumbler', but Roy's Sowerby tumblers, which are from the 2550 water set and match this jug: http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-895
They're not generic. Cheers!
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I thought I bring this topic up again as to the mystery maker of the Face jug and beakers, I have a complete set in amber and keep looking for a maker with no luck, I have now purchased a complete set in satin blue, I just happened to put the set next to a Walther blue muschel mermaid base and I have say that the colour looks 100% identicle match, is it not possible they may have been made by Walther, I know there are many Walther catalogues and that they do not appear in any, but is it still a possibility they may have been made by Walther
Roy
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Re the Sowerbys jug and tumblers. Although I have no first hand knowledge of the subject, I would guess that pressed water sets never really caught on. The tumblers were pretty horrible to drink from and I suspect that, once lighter, blown tumblers became available again after WW2, that was the end. However the jug was certainly still made in "my" time, although not in huge numbers.
Adam D.