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Title: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Chris Harrison on April 05, 2008, 04:58:10 PM

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9795
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9794
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9793
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9792
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9796

Bought this piece in a job lot of uranium glass (shown in the last photo).

5" / 12.5cm tall, 4.5" / 11cm diameter

It looks like a biscuit barrel, but there's no evidence it ever had a lid.  Could have had a wooden one, I suppose, but there are no marks whatever on the rim. 

Maybe just a vase?

Anyone have any ideas as to the maker?

Thanks

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: mrvaselineglass on April 05, 2008, 06:13:28 PM

No clue as to who made it.  I don't recognize it as any pattern made in the USA.  I think it would classify as an ice bucket/no lid, just as easily as 'biscuit barrel'.  I like it a lot!
Mr. Vaseline Glass

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Chris Harrison on April 06, 2008, 06:25:14 PM

Thanks, Dave.

Duuh!  Ice bucket... of course... should have thought of that.  I guess it was the lack of handle(s) that put me off.

Hmmm.  Can't ever remember coming across any GB ice buckets - at least  before 1920s Art Deco...  Will perhaps need to look further afield.

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Frank on April 06, 2008, 08:46:11 PM

S&W Ice Bucket introduced 1904-07 (http://www.glasscatalogue.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/cd3cf352f4839804bd46b7177815aaa6.jpg) courtesy The Glass Catalogue.com

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Chris Harrison on April 06, 2008, 10:31:22 PM

Thanks, Frank.
Nice one.

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Bernard C on April 07, 2008, 07:08:55 AM

Don't most ice buckets have a ledge or a ring of locating lugs for a perforated metal disc inside, about a quarter of the way up, to keep the ice separate from the meltwater?   Also, in my experience, glass-rimmed ice buckets are prone to small chips and wear on the inside rim from ice tongs.   ... and I can't recall ever seeing a barrel-shaped ice bucket.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Frank on April 07, 2008, 07:53:54 AM

Indeed they do Bernard, unfortunately they chose not to show it in the photograph of either of their Ice Buckets but the 'Drainer' is included in the description.

I think that the subject of the thread is a Biscuit Barrel, it certainly exemplifies the term. We did have a lidded barrel shaped Ice Bucket in the 60's (plastic) but the liner was bucket shaped.

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: mrvaselineglass on April 07, 2008, 06:29:36 PM

Chris/Bernard/Frank:
I have a vaseline glass ice bucket that has no handle, no rim, no wear on the rim from a lid, or from ice tongs.
It is also from that mystery maker, SV

(Chris- not a hijack of your thread, just wanted to show it is possible to have an ice bucket without liner, lid, chips, or handle)

http://www.vaselineglass.org/svbucket.jpg (http://www.vaselineglass.org/svbucket.jpg)

Dave
aka: Mr. Vaseline Glass

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Chris Harrison on April 09, 2008, 09:07:00 AM

No sweat, Dave.  The more input, the merrier, as far as I'm concerned.

The item at the top of the thread has no scrapes or scratches, no ledge, no liner... and no trace of crumbs.. :P

Not too much call for biscuit barrels or ice buckets these days.  But it'd make a great tidy for remote controls  >:D

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: Chris Harrison on August 27, 2008, 12:44:33 PM

Saw a photo of a very similar biscuit barrel in Broadfield House (the photo, not the piece).  It was the same size, had the same rim and the same texture to the body, but without the circular lenses of clear glass. 
Attributed as Sowerby 1874, and that one did have a lid.

Title: Re: Uranium / vaseline biscuit barrel?
Post by: krsilber on August 28, 2008, 09:49:19 PM

I've seen handle-less ice vessels referred to as "ice tubs" to distinguish them from ice buckets.