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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: petet63 on May 09, 2013, 02:15:49 PM
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Hi, I have tried to read this rotated upside down and mirrored but my brain cant/wont form an image I can see clearly. I can see a key and think its a house. It is on the base of a pink/rose vase in a local shop. I said I would take a look to try and ID it and im stumped.
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Three lions, Guernsey Glass I think
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Beat me to it again Christine!! ;)
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I still can't see three lions ;D ;D thanks again to both of you. I will let the charity shop know. It may sell better if its named. I have noticed that even when a sig or makers mark they rarely mention this.
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Hi Pete, they are three long thin lions lying stretched out one above another... it is pressed in and like so many pressed marks they rarely come out clearly. The company is Island Studio Glass, Guernsey.
Here is a Google link for you to see others to reassure yourself:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Island%20studio%20glass%20guernsey%20mark&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&biw=1008&bih=476&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=_geMUdCfDrHs0gX074DwBw#imgrc=_
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I didn't doubt it for a second and have have looked up the mark and still cant see it on this piece some kind of mental block. I ha e had a, few Li rd of glass from this company. I get worse lol. Thanks again.
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I'm with Pete on this one. To me it does not look like the usual Guernsey "three lions" stamp. More like "three towers" and there is something that looks like a key below the main image.
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Yes, I can see three towers with flags flying and a key below, now that I am on the main computer with a decent sized screen instead of my 10" notepad!... so it is back to the drawing board.... :-[
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Royal Scot? sometimes has a castle & a key impressed? can't find an image at mo
Mel
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Just found the flag of Gibraltar. That has three towers and a key below!!
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I think I have it!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibraltar-Crystal-English-Glass-Posy-Bowl-Castle-Mark-/130849061655?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item1e77363b17
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Rosie's right http://www.gibraltar-crystal.com/
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Actually, Kevin H inadvertantly put me onto it with his suggestion of three towers.
Then when I put that in the search engine I found his Ysart thread that shows a paperweight with a three turret castle badge for the Cambridge regiment.
That set me looking at castle pontil marks and the Flag of Gibraltar came up, so I put variations of Gibraltar Glass in the search engine.
But it was you that came up with their website Christine... don't they make nice glass?
This might be one to buy Pete!!
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I shall look out for this glass.
The impressed logo is easy to remember, as the three towers were called Faith, Hope, and Charity, and the key unlocks the gateway of the Mediterranean.
Bernard C. 8)
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Gosh, that is very interesting Bernard, and I think I will remember it that way and not make the same mistake of seeing what I thought I should be seeing instead of what was really there, and needed more investigation.
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Oops — I got it wrong! Faith, Hope and Charity were the three Gloster Gladiators that defended Malta in 1940, not Gibraltar. Sorry about that! ;D
Bernard C. 8)
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OK Bernard, revised memory jogger will be:
We have Faith that when we go glass hunting we will find something which we Hope will be valuable, and if not we will give to a Charity shop!! If they don't want it, we will throw away the Key!!
Boom boom!!
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Well I never ;D I lived there for a few years in the late 80's but as I said I could not get my eyes to focus, has to be an age thing :-\ Thank you for the detective work all of you. I am off to the site to see where the hell they put a glass studio in Gib, they were running out of room when I was there!!