Topic: Purple Slag/Marble/Malachite Basket - ID = Greener

[tbeck3579]

Hi All,

Can you please help me with this ID.  I've searched American glass makers and British glass makers but I'm not having any luck.  Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h347/tbeck3579/DSC03612.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h347/tbeck3579/DSC03611.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h347/tbeck3579/DSC03618-Copy.jpg

[rosieposie]

Just to let you know I have spent all evening on this, and now I am hooked on glass baskets!! :thud:

Something that may be relevant....the pattern on the base appears to be Celtic in style....so could it be a British maker?

Whomsoever the maker, it is quite the nicest of all I have seen this evening.

[tbeck3579]

Thank you so much for looking.  I had thought it would be British as well but I didn't have any luck finding it.  Thank you for the compliment  and thank you again for trying!

[mhgcgolfclub]

I have had quite a few very similar baskets in clear glass and uranium which have been marked sowerby, I do not think it is Davidson , Henry Greener may also made similar baskets, I do have  a clear basket some where , I will try to find it and see if it matches your basket pattern

Roy

[Lustrousstone]

I would look at Greener too

[tbeck3579]

 :hi: Thanks so much for the information and help.  I've looked and I still can't find this particular pattern.  The one piece I thought would be easy to ID is now becoming the most difficult  .  Thanks so much for your help!   :thup:

[rosieposie]

Never give up, I am still looking as well......there will be another one out there somewhere, :X:  and in the meantime comfort yourself that it must be quite rare and unusual, otherwise we would all have found it by now!! :hiclp:

[Anne]

Have you checked all over it for any sign of a maker's mark of registered design number? Sometimes they are hard to spot, so running your fingers over the glass will pick them up when your eyes don't spot them. Baskets are often marked either on the base or on the handle, or sometimes in both places!

[rosieposie]

I think I might have found it!!

Look at this link and see what you think.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350423635958&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

 :X: for you! xx

[tbeck3579]

 :hiclp: I believe that is the same design!  I can't see the bottom but everything else is the same.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!   :kissy:  I appreciate it this more than you will ever know.