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Title: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: stemidd on August 04, 2011, 05:42:16 PM

hi all,

i have an old looking vase, possibly victorian by the style,moulded glass hobnail cut style vase by who??
it is a creamy yellow/off white colour and is pressed glass im sure, has an old style hobnail cut pattern to it
any of you experts out there come accross such an item before and where made or by who?
thanks in advance

kind regards
steve from leeds, uk

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: Wayne on August 04, 2011, 05:49:00 PM

I coud be way out here, but I'm sure I've seen these in blue, and also a pale green, with a stopper.  To me they seemed quite modern compared to other Victorian milk glass but I could easily be wrong.  Also something lurking in the dark depths of my memory is saying they might have been used to store bath salts??

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 04, 2011, 06:15:29 PM

Made for Avon I think.

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: glassobsessed on August 04, 2011, 07:00:40 PM

How tall is it?

John

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: stemidd on August 04, 2011, 07:27:22 PM

its 11 /3/4 inches, no avon marks on it and im sure all avon products were impressed with their name

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: glassobsessed on August 05, 2011, 06:38:48 PM

I think it once had a stopper too and that would add a few more inches to the height. I used to have a large collection of stoppered bottles like this lot: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,38224.msg210699.html#msg210699
Most of them were Italian.

One of them was a dark green colour and I think it matched yours, if so, yours would have had a stopper about 4 inches tall with a flat top rather than a tall pointy top. The bottle I am thinking of had Made in Portugal moulded on the base. Sadly I did not keep a photographic record of all of them so I can not be certain that they would match.

John

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: stemidd on August 05, 2011, 08:58:43 PM

hi john,

thanks for the info and your'e probably right it would have had a stopper by the look of it

cheers

steve

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: Wayne on September 03, 2011, 08:22:17 AM

Came across this ebay listing today: 130568702735 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dabs-Portugal-Pressed-Brown-Glass-Vase-Low-Start-/130568702735?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item1e66804b0f)

Different colour but same design, apparently marked Dabs Portugal.

Would make sense actually, I've seen a few other modern milk glass items imported from Portugal.

Title: Re: moulded glass hobnail cut vase by who??
Post by: glassobsessed on September 03, 2011, 07:48:55 PM

That looks like three colours so far then, well spotted Wayne.

John