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Title: Re: vase - ID = Sowerby Mercury
Post by: Anne on July 14, 2007, 04:57:50 PM

Quote from: BJB on July 14, 2007, 04:42:47 PM

The other has two panels on which there is a figure of, I think, Mecury the winged messenger on a frosted background.

http://i13.tinypic.com/53p9288.jpg

Maybe Walther?

Barbara

Barbara, I think the second one is the Sowerby Mercury vase - see Angela's post-war glass page - scroll down to the Sowerby bit and she has one the same.
http://www.glass.co.nz/postwarpressedglass.htm

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Title: Re: vase - ID = Sowerby Mercury
Post by: BJB on July 14, 2007, 05:09:00 PM

Hi Anne,

Many thanks for the info on the Mecury vase, pleased that all the ancient Greek and Roman gods that we slept  studied through didn't all go to waste!

Barbara

Title: Re: vase - ID = Sowerby Mercury
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 14, 2007, 05:45:41 PM

I would also say that Mercury is in uranium from the colour