Topic: another Uranium one need an ID for a jug this time..webb maybe??

[jonchellycain]

Hi there
Also have this gorgeous jug, paid just £1.75 from a little junk shop i know. Beautiful shape to it. first impressions where Whitefriars or Webb but have been unable to find anything as of yet.
Made from bright green uranium which glows really brightly under UV/blacklight, I think its mould blown?? with an applied handle, slight internal lobing to the lower bulbous base giving it an optical effect. The bulbous bit curves downwards at the top before going into the ribbed neck (hope that makes sense). The base has a ground out and polished pontil (what i call dimple/whitefriars style). Plenty of wear to the base. The rim is not completely perfectly round and a bit wobbly, although not damaged or ground, obviously from where it was made
many thanks
michelle

[Lustrousstone]

Blown jugs (of any sort) are hard to ID but I would say yours is much more likely Continental Europe than Webb. Most of the blow-moulded uranium jugs I come across have a moulded base, i.e., no pontil mark, but I too have recently have found a jug with blown horizontal ribs,vertical optical ribs and a polished pontil. Today, I found a cruet with similar features, but not I suspect, from the shade of green, made at the same factory.

Your jug is lovely but not from one of the high quality English makers. I know it's hand made but I suspect it was still from perhaps a Czechoslovakian factory turning out large numbers of glassware items for export in the 1930s/40s. A pontil mark is only indicative of the way something was made, not where it was made; a polished pontil mark shows the factory cared about decent finishing.

Here are a couple of quick snaps (these are 3-4 MB pix resized)

(See the difference in the glow compared to your vases?)