Topic: Weekend puzzle !

[chopin-liszt]

You mean the one where you lied to me about being far too good at this, before removing it?

[Greg.]

Isle of Wight Studio Glass...?

[keith]

That's the one  I posted  a wrong picture and had to delete it and the post, too late now Greg has got it !

[Greg.]

  Must admit that was a bit of a left field guess, mainly based on the shape. Not sure at all which range or colourway this belongs to. The colour reminds me a little of the colour used in some of the different Bon Bon colourways.

[chopin-liszt]

It's not from a known range.

It could well be contemporary with the "Satin, Lace, Ribbons and Silk" ranges; there are known examples of odd "variations on a theme" related to this series of pieces, or it could possibly be from the "Glassmaker's Shelves" in the shop, where one-offs by the makers, done in their own time were sold.

[keith]

Spot on Sue, the dealer said it came from the 'storeroom' I presume that would be the "Glassmakers 's shelves" 

[chopin-liszt]

Not neccessarily. There was a lot of stuff kept in the store-rooms - it got released in dribs and drabs, with very high prices attached, to collector's club members from what was called "the Archives". If it didn't sell to them, it was sometimes made available to the general public.

They did operate a "Moorcroft"-type of system in order to make items "more collectable".

Thousands of scarcities and rarities sort of thing.

It could be a prototype; something experimental; something that didn't turn out quite as hoped; or from the glassmaker's shelves.

[Carolyn Preston]

They did operate a "Moorcroft"-type of system in order to make items "more collectable".

Sorry, could you define a "Moorcroft"-type of system? My family has owned Moorcroft (my sister gave me a lovely piece a year ago, and then I returned the favour last Christmas) but it was always just lovely pottery in my life.