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Title: Uranium Candlestick - ID = Sowerby 689 pattern
Post by: NevB on January 29, 2022, 11:36:16 AM

This 9" uranium candlestick is in a dark mint/fern green colour. I had a search and can't yet identify an English maker, I found a couple online in the same pattern, but unidentified, which were in America so it's possible it's American.

Title: Re: Uranium Candlestick
Post by: flying free on January 29, 2022, 01:09:08 PM

French?  That raised oval design always reminds me of the Saint Louis/Baccarat pressed glass designs.  Have you checked the Launay Hautin catalogues?

Title: Re: Uranium Candlestick
Post by: NevB on January 29, 2022, 06:37:04 PM

Thanks flying free, I've looked at the Launay Hautin and Baccarat catalogues and there are some with a similar ovals decoration but nothing exactly the same. I'll keep looking.

Title: Re: Uranium Candlestick
Post by: NevB on February 12, 2022, 06:59:07 PM

From Book V P.15 on Mike Tomlins website the No.689 9" candlestick. See Mike's post under British glass.

http://www.victorianpressedglass.com/pdf/sowerby/sowerby_1874.pdf

Title: Re: Uranium Candlestick
Post by: flying free on February 12, 2022, 07:25:15 PM

Great find.  Thanks for the links.  Those patterns in the books are so architecturally pleasing in the way they've been drawn :)

'Sketched and Lithographed by MACLURE and MACDONALD. Lithographers to the Queen'

A little strange to see 'Opium Lamp' on page 33   :-X

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Title: Re: Uranium Candlestick
Post by: NevB on February 12, 2022, 07:34:37 PM

I want one of those, I wonder if they made one in Uranium  ;D