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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by flying free on Today at 10:18:12 PM »
But this item a jug selling on ebay might be interesting to compare?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254211123721?chn=ps&_ul=GB&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=254211123721&targetid=1405537545098&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9180613&poi=&campaignid=17218284410&mkgroupid=142217514411&rlsatarget=pla-1405537545098&abcId=9300867&merchantid=119407824&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwx-CyBhAqEiwAeOcTdYg3zLxulEryLsZPmrq5Z4nNEf-gKIesQBi8NufaptAbz-grt-xcIRoCaPEQAvD_BwE

I don't know if that would be classed as Jackfield but anyway ...
here is a description of Jackfield
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/typeceramics/type/jackfield-type-ware/#:~:text=Jackfield%20production%20is%20historically%20associated,was%20from%20about%201740%2D1760.
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by flying free on Today at 10:12:42 PM »
I think the Guest Brothers mark on the vase might relate to the etched decoration on that vase. So Guest Brothers perhaps a red herring for our paperweights I think?
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by MHT on Today at 10:00:10 PM »
Forgot to mention the vase was 8.5" (22cm) high. Sorry, sold it last year, don't think it ever would have had a lid.
It was listed as a glass vase when I bought it, I can see why, it did look like glass.

Mike
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by flying free on Today at 09:29:02 PM »
I honestly don't think they are lids - but I could be wrong of course.  And I think they'd just slide off the top of anything unless it had an upright lip to the rim indented for a lid to sit into.  I don't think they are lids really.

Here's another example of a green one - listed by Xupes as 'malachite enamelled pottery' but I don't know if that description is correct:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/402368547928618551/

Malachite is extremely difficult to research imho. I have a great love of antique malachite (too expensive for me to buy though).  I have a malachite box however, although I think it's at least vintage if not antique, I've found it really hard to research it.  I'm sure it's not recent but dating and researching it has been impossible.
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by essi on Today at 09:26:12 PM »
 When Nev said it could be a lid i could not quite see that because my item had no downward lip like a tea pot lid to keep it in place.
Look at the shape of MHT's vase at the top and maybe my item does become a lid?.
Vase or container?
MHT, do you still have the item?, might be interesting to measure the diameter of the opening at the top.
Just a thought.
Tim
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by flying free on Today at 09:19:38 PM »
I'll weigh mine if I can find my scales that vaguely work - to compare.  Although if yours also has 161 on they may have originated from the same place maybe?

I seem to remember finding a malachite version but the same shape that was a paperweight, so perhaps that's why I came down on thinking they were paperweights?

Also wondering ... if the one I found was malachite then maybe these were a fashionable shape made from some kind of granite/stone (obsidian??) - i.e. perhaps this was a carved and polished stone 'thing' of the time?

oh - There's a small part view of the malachite one here next to one like ours - unfortunately the listing is old and I can't bring up the complete photos of the listing:
https://picclick.co.uk/RARE-Antique-19th-Century-Malachite-Paperweight-%93-French-253559654507.html

Hence me assuming they must have been paperweights I think.
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by essi on Today at 07:35:58 PM »
Thanks again for all the extra input.
MHT your vase with some sort of patented process looks very interesting.
M, you have really been down this path before.
The old posts were very interesting and it seems you have an identical match to mine.
yours also has the 161 mark on the base.
My weight weighs 530 grams.
I have seen the process of someone using a lathe to make the bottom of an ice curl flat. maybe that is the process which has made the lines on the base of this weight?
Hopefully some more information may come to light.
Tim
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Glass / Re: Art Deco Glass Lidded Pot With Penguins Adorned To The Lid????
« Last post by LEGSY on Today at 04:56:09 PM »
 :) Mosquito that clears up the reason why the one i used to own was sold to somebody from France
it is not such an easy one to find out very much information for and i am indebted now thank you :)
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by flying free on Today at 01:48:49 PM »
according to a snippet I've come across Guest Brothers was an etching shop set up in c.1862 in Brettell Lane by Henry Gethin Richardson (glass industry?) and T Guest.  They'd left a set up they'd had with John and Joseph Northwood (Glass industry?) started in 1861.
Page 168 - Art Nouveau to (Victor Arwas) - I think I have this book somewhere so will have a search to see what the entire quote is later.
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Glass / Re: It's a mystery to me.
« Last post by MHT on Today at 10:44:18 AM »
Could it be made like this vase?

I bought this thinking it was glass but it has a high fired gloss black glazed terracotta body, extremely hard wearing, and heavy.

Makers mark on bottom, I read somewhere that it was specifically patented to look like glass but couldn't find out much about Guest Brothers.
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