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Title: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: glassaddict on April 08, 2008, 01:44:31 PM

Does anyone have any idea of date and maker of this please?
Many thanks.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/bananabons/Unidentified/101_0454.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/bananabons/Unidentified/101_0459.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/bananabons/Unidentified/101_0456.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/bananabons/Unidentified/101_0457.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/bananabons/Unidentified/101_0455.jpg

Hil  :)

Title: Re: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: Adam on April 08, 2008, 05:40:07 PM

The glass looks like Sowerbys 2487.  The metalwork could be by one of several makers, mostly in the UK Midlands.  Marriage unlikely to have been done at Sowerbys.

Adam D.

Title: Re: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: glassaddict on April 08, 2008, 07:14:39 PM

Ah thank you for taking the time to reply Adam. I see from Glen and Stephen's CD that it originally had a matching glass lid.
On closer inspection, I now doubt that the 2 metal pieces belong together as I think the frame is chrome and the lid is aluminium - so, possibly a marriage of 3 unrelated pieces.

Hil  :)

Title: Re: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 08, 2008, 07:35:34 PM

I have a similar lid on a preserve dish and that is chrome; it too has a pieced base. Your lid looks far too shiny to be vintage aluminium, which corrodes and dulls very slightly. I suggest it fits too well to be a marriage. Metal fittings were all the fashion at one time so there is no reason why a wholesaler shouldn't have bought the barrels without the glass lids - Sowerby would have sold them whatever they wanted...

Undoubtedly, the little lucite knobs were sourced from somewhere else

Title: Re: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: glassaddict on April 09, 2008, 07:36:33 AM

Thank you Christine. So possibly a happy marriage then  ;D

Hil

Title: Re: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 09, 2008, 10:36:15 AM

I think so  ;D

Title: Re: Pressed glass biscuit barrel - ID help appreciated
Post by: pamela on April 10, 2008, 06:29:11 PM

Confirming - I had a Sowerby's glass pot with label long ago