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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Paul S. on July 13, 2016, 05:53:21 PM
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struck me as not being very Stuart in looks, and it took some time to find the backstamp, but it's there on the edge of the foot, or at least part of it is.
Does anyone remember if we've had this design on the Board before. Fair amount of wear, so I assumed 1950 - 60 and thought it might have been a Luxton design, but don't see it in the books. Size is about 11.5" x 9" (290 x 230 mm). Any suggestions as to designer are welcome. :)
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It's rather nice. I like it
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Tending towards Art Cut as opposed to traditional. ;D
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thanks both - and yes, agree arty in style, and certainly unusual for Stuart. Disappointed me that I couldn't find this design in the books - felt sure it was going to pop up under one of Luxton's efforts. very heavy - think it has two ton of lead in it. ;)
Doesn't appear that anyone recognizes the cutting pattern - but it's early days yet.
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I like it too! (To be read in an Irish accent ;) )
Carolyn
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hi Carolyn...... no, no dahhhhling ......... what you meant to say was pronounced (or maybe enunciated), but not read ;D ;D :-*
It cost me four pounds in a local charity shop, and took me ages to locate the backstamp - perhaps Nigel might have an idea.
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(To be read in an Irish accent ;) )
Carolyn
Don't you read things and hear them in different accents in your head? I frequently have entire conversations that way LOL
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dear Carolyn - I knew exactly what you meant - it was just me being silly as usual. I've always had conversations with myself, and I think lots of folk do even perhaps if they don't admit it, and just goes to prove that words are essential for a society to be successful.
Thinking, without words, is unthinkable - literally. ;)
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Oh, by all means, be silly. And thinking without words is more than unthinkable. I think it's impossible. :-) (You do realize we will shortly be dewibbled, don't you).
BTW, speaking of Stuart Crystal. My sister found me a lovely Scotch glass (or so I think) by Stuart with lovely cutting of thistles on the side. (Marked, that's why I know it's Stuart LOL)
Carolyn
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The paintings in the Lascaux and Altamira caves in Dordogne and Spain are all the more remarkable as it would seem they were created before modern language evolved. How do you think to yourself 'gosh, think I'll paint a bison today', when you don't have words with which to think!!!
I didn't realize that ladies drank Scotch - does the cut pattern on your glass have a factory name? People have been known to drink whisky from almost any shape of glass, but generally the perceived correct shape is a low tumbler with thick base - helps to prevent it getting knocked over when you're p...............
If you see your sister, tell her I collect C18 Lynn moulded tumblers please ;) Now we will be chucked out.
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LOL, you make me laugh Paul! It is a low tumbler with a heavy (but footed) bottom. Have looked yet to see if there is a name. And you realize that I live in Canada, right. Where 100 years is old? This city was barely in existence at the turn of the 19/20th century. So I strongly suspect 19th century Lynn molded tumblers might be in short supply :-)
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sounds a good glass Carolyn - unfortunately, looking for names of Stuart patterns can be a very long task - there are so many cut designs from this factory - just have a look some time at the size of the Replacements.com catalogue for this factory.
I had forgotten is was Canada - thought it was Oz - but probably true to say that anything 'Lynn moulded', and it's a feature that occurs on a variety of glass items, would have been made way back in the second half of the C18 - not the nineteenth - and as far as I know appears to have been a peculiarly British style.
Doesn't mean you couldn't find one in your neck of the woods - glass is very good at travelling - but probably unlikely.