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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Unresolved Glass Queries => Topic started by: cyril_bogavill on November 27, 2013, 08:41:13 PM
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Hi I have just started collecting and was hoping there was a quick pressed glass pattern guide somewhere? stuck on this line pattern at the moment.
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hello Cyril .. unfortunately, there's nothing very quick about identifying most glass - it takes knowledge and experience which is acquired by spending a lot of time looking through books, catalogues and othe people's glass, usually :)
You don't say where you've looked so far, but I've tried Pamela's on line images http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/ under vases, but regret I can't see this pattern, hope I haven't missed it - you might also try http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/
Wish you success with your collecting, and hope you won't mind if I suggest that for clear glass, dark uniform plain backgrounds are best - with clear glass it's impotant to see the detail - having said that, this picture is adequate to see detail.
Also a good idea to include some wording in the subject heading to give an idea of what the item is - which can be very useful for future searches should others need to locate a similar item.
Let's hope someone else will recognise your vase. :)
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Paul, isn't this similar to the Jules Lang vase that features in Patricia's book (p.273) - different pattern, but a registration of 12 Jan 1937 may give you a timescale. But we have been down this route before, methinks (variation on a theme) ;)
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The Jules Lang registration of 12 January 1937 is RD 817496, and the link to a previous discussion (with a photo of the Lang vase) is at
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,11332.msg189650.html#msg189650
Unfortunately, it's not the vase that Cyril is showing, but there lots of pressed glass vases in that waisted shape in the 1930s.
I'll have a look through my RD photo reference files to see if I can find a match.
Fred.
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Cyril, welcome to Glass Message Board - you'll certainly enjoy your time here!
I do not recognize this pattern immediately, sorry; and I haven't got it in my collection, so don't waste your time on pressglas-pavillon.de in this case :)
I'd like to know whether your vase is press-blown into a mould (which I presume from your photo) or is it pressed with a plunger, in which case the inside is completely smooth?
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I did also first think of that slightly 'Blackpool Tower' looking vase on page 273 of Patricia's book - the bulb wanabee - but as Fred says, the pattern is different, although this one does also have a sort of 1930's shape, but different enough I'm sure to be unconnected.
The moulding on this one lacks crispness, whether that's because of age of the mould or just a low quality cheap production, I'm not sure - but suspect the latter. Glass travels, and in truth this piece could be from anywhere.
Hope Cyril doesn't get put off by our lack of ability to provide attribution - my suggestion would be to get out there and look for some more - preferably with Registration Nos. Spending time looking at past pressed glass posts would be useful for anyone starting to collect. :)
P.S. In view of the shape of this vase, I would have suggested unlikely to be pressed using a plunger, and more probably the first of Pamela's suggested methods.
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Yes, I agree, definitely not with a plunger with that slightly waisted body.
Oh and welcome to the GMB Cyril :)