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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: tizzycat on September 21, 2011, 04:31:00 PM
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Please forgive the intrusion.
I have a large glass vase which was left to me by my husband's Great Aunt in 1974. I know nothing about it, other than that I think it is very beautiful, and she always told me it was "very old".
Now that I am retired I have the time to do a little more research and wondered whether anyone could help in telling me a little more about the vase.
I have attached two pictures of the vase which is 10.5 inches high, 6" across the top and a little narrower across the base.
Many thanks
Chris
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Hi and welcome to the gmb Chris - you're not intruding at all.
I'm clueless about cut stuff, but a good clear image of the base always helps identification, and your location on the planet is often a good place to start a search.
Are you sure there are no marks, however faint, on or around the base? They can be really difficult to find sometimes.
A tiny bit of talcum powder rubbed over a mark can bring it up beautifully (and it comes off).
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Thank you for the welcome Sue.
It's quite difficult to get a decent photo of the base, but here are a couple. I have looked carefully, but cannot see any mark at all.
I am in West Yorkshire if it helps. The Aunt who left me the vase lived in Leeds all her life.
Thanks
Chris.
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Cut glass is a nightmare to photograph - you're doing very well!
That is a very unusual set of cuts to the base, I think I've seen it (or something very similar) on Stuart candlestick bases.
I do hope the pic will trigger some sort of recognition in somebody who knows a lot more about older and cut glass than I do (it's really not my area, I only dabble my toes in it's waters.)