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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: bat20 on May 04, 2014, 04:14:22 PM
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Hi all,this cylinder rummer has a ring and is cut with some attractive stars, the gadget shear marks give a date,i'm just wondering if it's English or is there no telling,many thanks.
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not possible to be certain I don't think. These small stars were a common form of decoration post 1850, and possibly into the C20 even - much of S. & F. glass is decorated with them, and they did import glass from the Continent. The SHEARS mark underneath the foot was very common on lesser quality drinking glasses for most of the last third of the C19, but as a feature it gives no clue as to origin.
My thoughts would be that this is a pub or tavern glass from 1870 - 90 ish.
Cylinder bowls appear to be less common than, for example the more common bucket, and if you look at Tim Mills book the impression is that cylinders seem to occur earlier in the C19, although as you say, the shears mark does provide an approximate date period. I'm sure I see far more buckets, ovoids and cups than cylinders. This might be equally from the U.K. as elsewhere.
Assume you now have Tim Mills book ;)
But you never know - could be someone out there who might know a great deal more about this piece :)
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Thanks Paul,yup got the book and love it,i would say made for taverns as it's very freely made with a slight wonkyness that gives the piece a soft look and although there is wear on the foot i would say hardly taken off the shelf during it's 140 years or so.