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Title: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on June 03, 2022, 06:40:52 PM

These glasses seem to have a bit of everything going on, perhaps just subtle enough not to be over the top. Etched mark on base and about 17cm tall.

John

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on June 03, 2022, 06:42:04 PM

Base

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: keith on June 03, 2022, 11:57:15 PM

Those are very nice, good find John.  ;D

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 04, 2022, 01:44:03 PM

 8) Do you have any feeling at all about whether these have been acid polished/
Could they possibly be rock crystal?

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on June 05, 2022, 07:42:15 PM

Thanks Keith.

I expect the cut pattern was polished by acid dipping then the etched part of the pattern was added. No idea what would define something as 'rock crystal' cut, is it marketing fluff, a style or?

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 05, 2022, 07:55:24 PM

Rock crystal cut is acid polished after cutting to make the harsh lines softer.
There should be a long thread discussing it a while back. I'll dig for it.
ta-da  ;)
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,36267.20.html

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on June 05, 2022, 08:04:21 PM

That applies to most 20th century cut glass doesn't it?

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 05, 2022, 08:12:38 PM

I really don't know, but it would add expense and increase workload. ???

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on June 05, 2022, 08:16:39 PM

Quicker and way cheaper than polishing every cut individually by hand.

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 05, 2022, 08:26:25 PM

true - but did/do they?
Your goblets look nice and soft, they are Richardson and the cutting is highly complex, it was those things in combination made me think they were likely to be a bit extra-special.

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on June 06, 2022, 09:43:58 AM

Yes that is what happens. A now retired local engraver used to take all his work (to somewhere in Stourbridge I think) to have it acid polished.

I found some Webb glasses that have a few similarities to these, particularly the cutting on the knop but overall the cutting on the Webb examples was much denser with way more going on.

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: flying free on July 10, 2022, 10:35:22 PM

Nice shape.
The dating would make these from H.G. Richardson would it?

m

Title: Re: 1920s Richardson wine glasses
Post by: glassobsessed on July 11, 2022, 07:47:50 AM

Presumably shortly before the takeover by Webb.

A more elaborate example from Webb, kind of in the same ball park: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-webb-corbett-rock-crystal-1820691825