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Glass / Re: Hillston Crystal - second example found in 4 years
« Last post by Anne on May 30, 2025, 05:26:41 PM »
My fiancée and I recently bought these 5 small crystal glasses. We were unable to find the "H" mark, but we were able to make out most of the name on one of the glasses. The only reference that we could find to Hillston Crystal was on this message board.

Hello and welcome to the board, and thank you for adding your Hillston crystal glasses to Frank's query topic. I'll give him a nudge to let him know you've posted them.
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Glass / Etruscan style engraved goblet.
« Last post by Ekimp on May 29, 2025, 07:53:07 PM »
I thought this goblet was going to have been acid etched, similar to John Northwood’s style of acid etched decoration, it is actually engraved (couldn’t see it properly when I bought it). The outlines around the six elliptical panels and bordering the vertical frosted segments are similar to a fine acid etched line but are engraved. The portraits have been drawn by scuffing the surface, they are only shallow. The frosting has been infilled inside the boarders by abrasion.

The rim is cut and polished with the edges chamfered. The foot is polished flat. It is just over 6 inches high.

From the Harrach book, page 179/180, the style of decoration with the panels with Antique Revival portraits starts from the early 1860s (but talking about coloured transfer prints onto coloured glass).

Then also, at bottom of the second from last paragraph page 180 it says that in the 1860s Neuwelt glassmakers also attempted to match English engraved lead glass. One example is shown, a jug on page 189, with “Linear engraved ornamental decoration” no portraits. The Greek key between thin horizontal bands looks similar to the goblet, and also the vertical (not frosted) segments. It says engraved glass was only a small part of their output in the 1860s

I wonder if my goblet could be from Harrach 1860s? Engraved in a similar way to the jug but with the portraits that were popular at the time. Not sure if the flat polished foot is right for Harrach/Bohemia though?
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Glass / Re: 2 Jadeite Liqueur Glasses
« Last post by SNJ on May 29, 2025, 05:08:05 PM »
Thanks Christine, nice to get confirmation that it might be one... or the other!
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Glass / Re: Pair of Vaseline / Uranium Twisted Stem Posy Vases
« Last post by SNJ on May 29, 2025, 05:05:43 PM »
Thanks very much, both!
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British & Irish Glass / Re: Stuart Stratford Cocktail Shaker
« Last post by NevB on May 29, 2025, 10:32:29 AM »
Thanks Ekimp.
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Glass / Re: Pair of Vaseline / Uranium Twisted Stem Posy Vases
« Last post by NevB on May 29, 2025, 10:31:22 AM »
Nice, there are pieces shown in Eric Reynolds Walsh book with the same twisted stem and the round knop at the bottom, but I can't see yours in the pattern books, so it's not a definite attribution.
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Glass / Re: 2 Jadeite Liqueur Glasses
« Last post by Lustrousstone on May 29, 2025, 08:56:03 AM »
Likely one or the other LOL but I think I'd veer towards Bohemian
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Glass / Re: Pair of Vaseline / Uranium Twisted Stem Posy Vases
« Last post by Lustrousstone on May 29, 2025, 08:54:20 AM »
Possibly Walsh Walsh, definitely not Powell (wrong colour for straw opal for a start), most likely English will be a good as it gets
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Glass / Re: Cameo type glass or not ?
« Last post by keith on May 28, 2025, 10:56:21 PM »
Will get back to you on this tomorrow, been having trouble getting on the GMB recently.
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Glass / 2 Jadeite Liqueur Glasses
« Last post by SNJ on May 28, 2025, 10:01:25 PM »
Here is a pair of small green stemmed glasses, presumably Jadeite or similar, with enamelled jewels/beads. Are they likely to be French or Bohemian? Both flouresce under a UV light. TIA.
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