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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Paul S. on July 09, 2011, 08:55:47 PM
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this is unlike my only piece of pink Nazeing - the 'flecking' seems quite different, so need some help with attribution please. I understand that 'stepped' bases like this were a feature of Nazeing in the late '40's and 50's, so maybe it is. The rim is fire polished, and there is the feel of a welt all round the rim - the piece is cased in clear, far more noticeable from the base upwards, and the bottom appears flat, as from the mould, and with reasonable age wear. Height is a shade under 8"/200mm. The streaking is quite fine, as are the bubbles. Hope someone able to assist and thanks for looking :).
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just realized that these pictures taken under electric light are not representative of daylight colour, and probabaly misleading.............so, herewith a couple more taken this morning without any artificial light. Hope they are more helpful. :)
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I do recognise the shape - but I can't remember if it's specific for Nazeing or for something else..... :pb:
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thanks Sue - please do keep the old grey matter working for me :)
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It might be Hartley Wood...... somebody else will know, Paul!
I've definitely seen one in a deep blue colour - and it was a bit rough or crude around the edges - not the best-finished of beasts, which is why I'm thinking HW.
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uhmmm - well, although this is a simplistic piece, it isn't what I'd really call rough or crude - at least the colour is attractive - almost bordering on a watery cranberry. It has a mould finished base, yes, and a fire polished top, so I guess probably inexpensive in it's day. Was HW the poor man's Gray-Stan/SW/Webb Corbett/Monart??
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Personally, I don't think so - personally I just see HW as just being a bit more "hand-made-ish" - for lack of a better expression - I'm not saying the others weren't hand made, obviously! There were a lot of surface flaws on the blue bit I saw and handled. I think HW is seriously under-rated. (though I can't say I like these bits much!)
Materials and equipment hadn't been refined to such a good degree of workability as they were for the Studio Glass Movement - hence the problems with the annealing of Monart, as an example.
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sorry, don't understand Sue (forgive my inexperience) - isn't annealing just the lengthy cooling down process - so how does that affect qualtity - or have I mis-read your comments. :)
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Yep, it's the lengthy, tightly-controlled, cooling down process.
Which at Monart was not remotely well-controlled, but a bit subject to all sorts of vagaries including, I believe, the prevailing winds penetrating the wooden buildings and they tried to rush it sometimes - which is why Monart has that highly interesting feature of suddenly becoming a three-dimensional jig-saw, especially if stored in attics.
The other interesting feature is that they actually hold together as 3-D jigsaws!
There's one here.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,32407.0.html