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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Trinket Sets => Topic started by: theElench on December 15, 2017, 07:51:26 AM
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After posting on the thread about the Sowerby "Sunray" set I thought I'd try to find a photo of it in pink, as I had claimed to have seen examples.
While searching I came across www.free-stock-illustrations.com "Sowerby Dressing Table Sets". They didn't have a picture of the Sunray set but have a green set with pots matching GTS "Mystery No. 4" with tray, pots, candlesticks and ring-holder. Sorry I don't know how to do links [ * ] and as the page is marked with the copy-right symbol and "All rights reserved" am not sure whether I should add a picture here.
[ * ] Mod: URL made clickable - but cannot find target page for "Sowerby"
While checking #4 in the Mysteries section I noticed that the intro. page has an illustration of a previous Mysteries page. It shows a candlestick with an oval base as Mystery No. 10. In the current pages this has disappeared, no. 10 is now a different set. Has the candlestick mystery now been solved?
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Shown on page "Sowerby Glass Dressing Table Sets"
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I'm pretty confident that is wrong. I think these are much more likely to be Czech and I'm not convinced the whole lot goes together
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The search term "Sowerby Dressing Table Sets" on http://www.free-stock-illustrations.com (http://www.free-stock-illustrations.com) just gives me a duck with an Uh oh we can't find that page... in fact a search for Sowerby finds nothing too so I'm a bit stuck with that link. :'(
However, looking at your image above, I can confirm that the pots are mystery set #4 and believed to be Czech but I'm not sure which maker as yet but there are strong hints that it is Stoelzl.
The tray is Stoelzl (Czech) - Pamela has one in her collection as a decanter set tray.
http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/karaffen/02444.jpg (http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/karaffen/02444.jpg)
The ringholder has been looked at before and I am pretty sure it is Stoelzl too https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,48428.0.html (https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,48428.0.html)
Candlesticks are mystery set #37 and are found in the same tortoiseshell glass as mystery #4 but as part of a different set design:
http://www.glasstrinketsets.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=40 (http://www.glasstrinketsets.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=40)
My gut feeling is that they are all Stoelzl but I haven't yet found proof to confirm this. The green "set" above would therefore appear to me to all be Stoelzl but made up of parts of 3 or 4 different sets.
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Oh dear, not Sowerby, not even a set! Sorry to have raised a red herring.
What happened to the candlestick previously listed as Mystery 10?
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Oh dear, not Sowerby, not even a set! Sorry to have raised a red herring.
What happened to the candlestick previously listed as Mystery 10?
Not a red herring, I think it is a set, the pot with asymmetric finial has also been seen with the enamelled ‘faux-tortoiseshell’ design:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,50479.msg317958.html#msg317958
Simba's completed tortoiseshell set:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,68001.0.html
Mystery Set 37:
https://www.glasstrinketsets.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=40
Mystery Set 4:
https://www.glasstrinketsets.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7
(but I believe the blue tray shown there is from a marriage with Mystery Set 32 as it has it's own matching pots with the same pattern in the base)
https://www.glasstrinketsets.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=35
Longer thread on the enamelled set identified as Stolzle Hermanova Hut:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,51881.0.html
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Mystery Set #004 now identified;
The lidded Trinket Pot with triangular finial is shown in the Czech Stolzle 1930's Pressed Glass Catalogue Page 1 Pattern 18726, along with much earlier numbered Perfume Bottle 11346 and Atomiser 11346a.
https://www-bohemianglass-org.translate.goog/katalog/c-stolzleho-synove-kat-187-lisovane-sklo-4935/detail/?_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Crossreferencing another thread on Trinket Pot 18726;
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,50479.0.html