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Title: covered milk glass cow
Post by: medieval feast on April 05, 2019, 12:40:06 PM

I've had this milk glass cow on a nest for 30 years and wonder if anyone can ID it? The base is very ornate. It has an embossed maker's mark like a lion or dragon, which I've tried to show in photo 3. But I don't think it's Davidson. Any ideas are welcome! Thank you, Jane

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: glassobsessed on April 05, 2019, 04:37:39 PM

Looks like it could be a Greener lion.

John

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: Anne on April 05, 2019, 11:49:18 PM

If you dust some dark powder across the mark (cinnamon or something like that works well) then take a pic it will help bring out the pattern better for you on the pic.

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: medieval feast on April 06, 2019, 12:05:28 AM

Thank you for your responses. It is indeed Greener glass -- I found a photo of another like it, in purple slag. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! It's nice to have the mystery solved. And it's so nice the old thing has survived since the 1870s or 1880s. 

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 06, 2019, 01:39:56 PM

I suspect the cow is lying on a grassy hummock, rather than sitting in a nest. ;D
I suspect it is a butter dish.

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: medieval feast on April 06, 2019, 01:52:08 PM

A grassy hummock? That sounds right. Thanks!

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: MHT on April 07, 2019, 10:39:20 AM

Picture of a P/W one in Slack, page 94. Someone paid £1100 for it at the Slack auction in 1989.

Title: Re: covered milk glass cow
Post by: medieval feast on April 07, 2019, 12:38:35 PM

Goodness gracious, that's some serious flowered hummock!