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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Andy on April 16, 2008, 12:59:33 PM
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I know theres a few Stuart experts and lovers on here, ive just been all through the replacements.com patterns
and cant find this one, its a super pattern, closest i found is hobnail, but these ones have stars on them.
Very intricate, just on the offchance, anyone have any other ideas?
Cheers
Andy :D
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Looks like Russian, a pattern that was done by many companies.
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Hi Kristi, :hiclp:
sorry didnt get back earlier, just seen examples of Russian cut by Webb and Richardson,
page 371 Hadamachs book on British Glass circa 1890-1910 so maybe mine are earlie than i
thought.
Cheers and thanks
Andy ;D
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You can also see that cut in Art, Feat and Mystery The story of Thomas Webb.
I have them in two sizes half tumbler and full tumbler they are fabulous.
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True that your tumblers may have been cut as early as the 1890s, but I suspect it's also possible they were cut decades later. This was a very popular pattern, forming the basis for the pressed pattern Daisy and Button as well. One book I have shows Russian by 7 American companies as well as a bunch of unknowns - and that's just American glass.
Unfortunately, yours isn't a particularly fine example. Unlike the Webb one shown in Hajdamach, yours doesn't have cutting on the hobnails (the 8-sided buttons), and they are rather irregularly shaped. There are a couple different versions of Russian, with different cutting on the hobnails.
JP, are the hobnails on yours cut like the example in the book (with stars)?
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Mine are cut exactly as in the Webb book and have significant natural wear
that matt grey look on the base,i got them at a country house sale many years back
there was another set all badly damaged i left them.