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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: NevB on February 18, 2023, 11:52:44 AM

Title: Fountain Glass or Czech Dish?
Post by: NevB on February 18, 2023, 11:52:44 AM

This little 10cm. dish appears in the Fountain Glass catalogue in flint glass as the No.1134 "Perth" pattern.

http://www.victorianpressedglass.com/pdf/fountain_glass.pdf

The history of Fountain is interesting, as shown here:

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Fountain_Glass_Works

My thoughts are that they probably didn't have access to Uranium at that time and that this is an earlier piece by one of the Czech companies, I can't find which one. It is similar in style though to the ashtrays and dishes produced by Jablonec.

Title: Re: Fountain Glass or Czech Dish?
Post by: flying free on February 18, 2023, 08:35:51 PM

I think this might have been posted on the board before but here is the document from Sylvia Daintrey née Lowit
and dated June 2021:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uV4jE4AoKUg6r7PL4fjF2mbI_I3HlOtt/view


And that's a lovely find :)

Title: Re: Fountain Glass or Czech Dish?
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 19, 2023, 10:01:28 AM

Nice one, but Czech is far more likely as I can't think of any post-war pressed UK uranium glass and the original Fountain Glassworks was bottles and containers.

Title: Re: Fountain Glass or Czech Dish?
Post by: NevB on February 20, 2023, 10:44:57 AM

Thanks flying free, that link is an amazing piece of research, I'm still searching for a maker.