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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Anne E.B. on August 24, 2023, 04:34:05 PM

Title: Pressed glass celery - ? Eda Glasbruk Sweden.
Post by: Anne E.B. on August 24, 2023, 04:34:05 PM

I've been unable to ID this pressed glass celery(?) that only cost 30p :o.  Unfortunately it is unmarked.  However, there is an image in my copy of Pressed Flint Glass by Raymond Notley, Shire Publications 1986 (page 21) of a celery that looks very similar,  taken next to a Sowerby one, and both described as being from the 1920s, although both "looking much older".  The foot, 'blackberry' prints and general shape look to be an almost match except the one shown in the book has some additional decoration above the prints.  Notley says it was made by Eda Glasbruk, Sweden when it was part of the national co-operative, Aktiebolaget de Svenska Kristall glasbruken, and that it was later made in Finland by Karhula-Iitala. 

I've looked through available Eda catalogues online but can't find anything that has these kind of prunts.  I've given up on looking in the online Corning Museum of Glass as I find it user unfriendly, at least for me.

Would it be possible to add an image of the one shown in the Notley book or is it still copyright?

I may be way off course and it is something completely different ::)

Title: Re: Pressed glass celery - ? Eda Glasbruk Sweden.
Post by: Anne on August 24, 2023, 07:01:03 PM

Hi t'other Anne! The Notley book is still in copyright so an image from it can't be posted here sorry.

Title: Re: Pressed glass celery - ? Eda Glasbruk Sweden.
Post by: Ekimp on August 24, 2023, 08:05:13 PM

This one from Brockwitz is also similar but with a pattern above the prunts:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,50267.0.html

Title: Re: Pressed glass celery - ? Eda Glasbruk Sweden.
Post by: Anne E.B. on August 25, 2023, 08:25:16 AM

Hmm that's interesting.  The one in the 1915 Brockwitz catalogue from their "Zurich" Suite (no.22452)  https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Brockwitz-1915.66+B6YmFja1BJRD02NiZwcm9kdWN0SUQ9MjU1MCZwaWRfcHJvZHVjdD02NiZkZXRhaWw9.0.html  is identical to the one shown by Notley which he attributes to Eda & later made by Karhula-Iitala.     As mentioned mine doesn't have the additional pattern above the prints though. 

Thanks t'other Anne.  I don't want the copyright police knocking on my door ;)

Title: Re: Pressed glass celery - ? Eda Glasbruk Sweden.
Post by: Anne on August 26, 2023, 12:31:00 AM

Hi t'other Anne! Notley's Pressed Flint Glass was published in 1986 and does contain errors. By 2000 when his Miller's Popular Glass of the 19th & 20th Centuries was published he'd changed the Eda Glasbruk ID you mentioned to Brockwitz, so PFG isn't a reliable source any more. I know Neil has also flagged up an error with the lacy plate on page 3 not being American, but being made by Molineux Webb.

Title: Re: Pressed glass celery - ? Eda Glasbruk Sweden.
Post by: Ekimp on August 27, 2023, 01:32:57 PM

Quote from: Anne E.B. on August 24, 2023, 04:34:05 PM

Notley says it was made by Eda Glasbruk, Sweden when it was part of the national co-operative, Aktiebolaget de Svenska Kristall glasbruken, and that it was later made in Finland by Karhula-Iitala.

That’s a surprisingly detailed attribution isn’t it? Maybe he had found a similar vase that was documented as he described and then made assumptions on the Brockwitz one in the book due to its similarity?