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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Mosquito on August 11, 2016, 02:06:56 AM
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Another recent Jobling find: a six-sided pressed glass ashtray advertising The Wear Glassworks, James A. Jobling & Co. Ltd.
The colour is the paler version of amber that Jobling used in the 1930s and matches that of some of my art glass range pieces. The foot and top rim are both ground and polished. I seem to recall seeing similar examples in the display at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
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Very nice find. I imagine these were given out by Jobling representatives to their clients. But could it be paler because the pressing is thinner?
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It does look like a proper golden amber as opposed to the sludgier brown amber often found.
Are ashtrays becoming fashionable again?
Most smokers I know have taken up vaping or have even managed to quit nicotine completely. Even if I go out, I see more folk with vaping things than with fags. :)