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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Heymate on August 26, 2014, 04:43:10 AM
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Hi. This is my first post and I'm fairly new to glass and crystal. I purchased this crystal glass because it caught my eye because of the fact that the 'honeycomb' design covers the stem and base as well, unlike the Orrefors honeycomb pattern glasses that I saw while trying to find more information about this piece. I cannot decipher the signature. Does anyone recognize this signature or know anything about this glass (including the type - it's smaller than a wine glass)? Thanks in advance!
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Hi - welcome to the GMB.
your backstamp says 'Royal Brierley' - a British glass manufacturer, and it looks to be sand blasted, but I could be wrong on that.
Regret that off-hand I don't know the pattern name, but if you try the GMB Search archive, or alternatively some of the internet Replacement services, you might strike lucky.
If you can remember, it's often useful to include the size (height) of your glass. :)
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Thank you! I am pleased to get such a quick response and to know the maker. I will definitely be posting here again and thank you for offering your knowledge. The height of the glass is 5.5 inches. Oh, and sorry for double posting this thread.
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thanks for the size - hopefully it might help. :)
Identifying cut patterns on clear drinking glasses is notoriously difficult - partly because there are many thousands of designs - if you look at the main States web site - Replacements, Ltd. - you'll see ...... and partly because of the lack of available manufacturers catalogues/images. Obviously some are more common than others, but given the vast number of different designs, it can be an up-hill task, although you do at least know the maker, which reduces the possibilities.
Most backstamps - yours included - are applied mechanically, so would not be described as a 'signature' - and would be correctly referred to as a backstamp. A 'signature' would be applied by hand, literally, and some glass does have just that ..... the designers name applied by hand with a stylus or diamond point.
Not sure what size wine glass you're accustomed to using, but I'd have thought 5.5" probably about normal, although I appreciate these things have developed larger capacity bowls over the past 20 - 30 years. Bearing in mind the historic proliferation of different shaped bowls for an equal variety of alcoholic drinks, then always possibly yours might be for something other than plain wine.
Royal Brierley was a name change that replaced the earlier and older company name of Stevens & Williams, and was a change that occurred sometime in the early 1930's. In terms of recent production - i.e. the 1990's - something like a fifth of R.B.'s output was exported - mainly to the States and Japan, so there should presumably be a fair amount on your side of the pond.
Yours is an attractive glass, hope you find some more of the same pattern, and best of luck in your search for a name. :)
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Oh, and sorry for double posting this thread.
No worries, duplicate has now been removed.
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Thank you for all of the information especially differentiating backstamp and signature for me. Yes, it has been an uphill task and I have not seen any of their glasses in this design by the Royal Brierley. I'm not a very big fan of the Replacements, Ltd. website because at times it makes you click on each link to see a picture instead is showing all the pictures on one page which is very time-consuming.
I got a laugh out of your comment about the wine glass and it's height. I am definitely accustomed to much larger wine glasses. Lol. Average modern wine glass I'm seeing is probably 9". Have they changed that much in size over the years? I was born later in the 80's and I live in the US....perhaps that explains things.
Well I know it's been a while since my original post but I wanted to follow up and say thank you for all be very helpful information.