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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: bzzzzz on June 26, 2009, 06:34:22 PM
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Hi first time using this and it's for a friend. He recently purchased a small vase brown/orange about 15cm high and 7 cm wide. It wasn't very easy to see but we could just make out a seal/stamp on the vase. To begin with he thought it looked like a dragon, I thought it looked like a pterodactyl - we finally agreed that it looked like a griffin.
I was wondering if anyone on here would know of a resource online where we could wade through different stamps/seals of glass makers on the off chance of seeing the same seal that we have on this vase.
Thanks for your help
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Hi and welcome to the GMB :D
The best idea would be to upload a photo of the mark here so that we can see it. Would that be possible? In the meantime, it's not this mark, is it? :)
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6268
If you have a vase, that mark would be impressed into a blob of glass underneath the base.
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Possibly a Strathearn "Leaping Salmon". See http://www.ysartglass.com/BaseLabel/Labels.htm (http://www.ysartglass.com/BaseLabel/Labels.htm) at the bottom of the page.
Bernard C. 8)
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It's almost more fun guessing, isn't it Bernard? lol :hiclp: :D
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Agreed, Max. ;D
Could be almost anything, although the S&W/RB Raybould tortoise is unlikely. Didn't one of the island glassworks have an animal impressed prunt?
... and I was thinking of you today, Max, as we've been delivered a Milton Keynes food and garden waste 140 litre wheelie bin, which, as we produce less than a couple of pounds per week that we don't compost ourselves, seems to be rather superfluous. But we could use it for road kill — three or four foxes and badgers, one deer, four or five cats, or any number of owls! :angel:
Bernard C. 8)
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Or the I.O.W Flame mark on what looks like a wine gum . :chky:
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Maybe it's something Erik Hoglund-ish? :huh:
garden waste 140 litre wheelie bin, which, as we produce less than a couple of pounds per week that we don't compost ourselves, seems to be rather superfluous. But we could use it for road kill — three or four foxes and badgers, one deer, four or five cats, or any number of owls! Angel
:::thinks:::: With a wheely-bin that big you could probably compost a whole cow...then all you'd need is a vat of formaldehyde and a friendly art gallery! :hiclp: :24:
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Are you able to add a picture? From your description, it's hard to tell whether it is an acid-etched mark, a mark pressed into the hot glass, or a moulded piece with a moulded mark a little proud of the glass. I just wondered whether you might have been looking at a Sowerby peacock or the Greener lion (http://www.pressedintime.com/registration%20marks.htm)?
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okay i'll try and put some photo's on.
unfortunately the mark is not very clear.
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Can you try rubbing over it with a pencil to highlight the raised bits - it will wash off. I have to say that it looks like a very modern piece to me and of course the glass factory is unlikely to be the one that applied the metalware.
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:-X Definitely not any of the suggestions we made! shows how important a picture is.
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the glass factory is unlikely to be the one that applied the metalware.
I think this piece is from Spain, including the garish applications. Not sure which glass maker is responsible for these - I've never seen them stickered. But in each Spanish town and village there is a corner shop which sells these....
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It seems to be Cyprus, Ivo, thanks to my finding one with a label a while ago (unless that was the retailer label, of course!) : http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1805.0.html
BTW the original post says brown / orange vase, the picture shows a blue one!