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Title: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: keith on August 02, 2017, 02:53:44 PM
4.25 inches tall, snapped pontil mark, quite thick around the rim with tool marks and some interior staining, English, Dutch or elsewhere, fair bit of wear to the base.
Title: Re: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: glassobsessed on August 02, 2017, 06:06:19 PM
You might need Patricia for this one Keith, seems a few companies made or sold vases with a similar shape including Richardson and Stuart though some are less round and so more squat. Webb is another contender, it seems this general shape was popular and long lived as it is still found in the Carter bulb catalogue of 1911 (page149, Curious History of the Bulb Vase by Patricia Coccoris).

John
Title: Re: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: keith on August 02, 2017, 07:48:58 PM
Thanks John, I must get a copy of Patricia's book, maybe she'll sign it for me ?  ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: ju1i3 on August 06, 2017, 11:19:41 AM
I don't think it exactly matches any of those in the Carter's catalogue. It's smaller. This one on ebay is similar http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Large-Squat-Cranberry-Bulb-Vase-Vertical-Ribbing-Snapped-Pontil/192263146803?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

I think this is the classic Stuart flattened round shape.
Title: Re: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: keith on August 06, 2017, 12:13:03 PM
Thanks, not heard of Carters catalogue  ::) ;D
Title: Re: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: Paul S. on August 06, 2017, 06:32:58 PM
no ?  that was in twenty two, after he'd found Tut's bits and bobs, and made a list of 'em all  -  they called it Carter's catalogue  ;) ;) ;D
Surprised you've not heard of them Keith - very big in seeds they wos.

I have a bulb vase that Patricia said was probably Stuart - the colour being a pointer  -  see here
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,57488.msg325805.html#msg325805
Title: Re: Hyacinth vase info' please.
Post by: keith on August 06, 2017, 07:11:27 PM
 ::) ;D ;D, thought my jokes were bad  ;D your vase has a polished rim mine is smooth, not got round to looking through the books, been a busy week or so, ta for looking  ;D