Topic: Green glasses IP Please.

[rachnathanking]

Hi Everyone.

Hope all is well.

Can someone please give me some info on the below glasses.

Age and make?

These feel lovely and very light with a wonderful colour.

Look forward to seeing your reply soon.

Thanks

Rach

[chopin-liszt]

They look as if they are Uranium glass. 
I suspect you might not be able to find a maker. Although glasses are not my area, there are a lot of companies who made them, many of which might not be in operation now.

I would think they belong to the 20th century, most likely to be Bohemian in origin.

[Lustrousstone]

Mostly wot Sue said but I wouldn't lean towards Bohemian. I would also expect them to be lead crystal

[chopin-liszt]

I was hoping you would comment. 
You do have some similar glasses, do you not?
Apologies for assuming a default of "probably Bohemian". You know far more than I do about this sort of thing.

[Paul S.]

just to add my two pennyworth.............

The wheel engraved decoration shows a design which was popular earlier in the C19 - it's something called 'egg and dart', and appears to go back to the Greeks and Romans, but I'm sure it was popular on some Georgian and Regency glass, but it does seem to have had a very long life.            Wouldn't have a clue where these might have started life.

These look to be good quality with the wheel engraving - the majority of these uranium glasses that I see are machine acid etched decoration - might these be a little older perhaps?

[rachnathanking]

Thank you all for your comments and love hearing what you guys have to say.

Paul I have just looked at the engraving a lot closer and it looks to be hand done with the 'egg and dart'
Also this glass has a polished out pontil mark too.

Thanks again to everyone.

Rach

[Paul S.]

it's 'hand done' in the sense that the guy held the glass up to the engraving wheel  -  as opposed to a purely mechanical decoration created by a machine.             As a type of glass these things are not that uncommon, but I just had the feeling that most that I see have machine made decoration  -  so these are better quality, which is borne out by your comments regarding the pontil depression.

Do you have a u.v. torch with which to see the outer atoms of the uranium being excited by the wavelength of the ultra violet light  -  the glow 

[Lustrousstone]

I would go a tadge further with my guessing - maybe English and perhaps late 19th/early 20th, but they could be from elsewhere in Europe