Topic: Id of ?tulip mark on base of a ?Dartington vase

[Quackers]

As you can tell from the ?s in the topic I'm guessing a bit here...

I was in the local Collectors Centre today (free admission BTW) and the owner asked for my opinion of a vase he had just acquired.  I immediately thought it looked like a Dartington "Roman" FT349 vase (although they call it a VA403 now)  http://www.dartington.co.uk/acatalog/dartingtonromansmallvase.html

Then he turned it over to show me the engraved mark...   http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7538

I'm certain I've seen that before, on here, recently...but my searches for the last hour or so have been fruitless.  Does anyone recognise it?  Sorry about my drawing skills by the way - didn't have a camera with me

thanks

[Quackers]

Hi all, I popped back in yesterday when I had my camera and managed to get this photo of the mark:     http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7582

I had to tweak the contrast a little to get it to show as there is quite a bit of muck in the bottom of the vase.  I also took my copy of Eve Thrower and Mark Hill's book with me and I can confirm that it is the small (c.7") size of the FT349 Roman vase.

Does the photo help at all with identifying the origin of the mark?

[Lustrousstone]

It appears to be a registered trademark but it doesn't appear in the UK/EU trademarks database  or in the US one as far as I can tell At least not as belonging to Dartington

[Quackers]

Hi Christine, many thanks for checking that - can you view/search the trademark databases on the web?

[Lustrousstone]

Yes, there is the UK one, which includes some EU ones and the US one

[Quackers]

I have still been wondering about this vase and finished up buying it .

At the boot fair last weekend I looked at one of the dealers tables and saw quite a collection of pieces from the Ripple collection, all stickered - except the FT349 vases (2), which had this engraved mark on the base.  But I have seen these vases elsewhere unmarked and without stickers.

Getting to me now....

Tim