Topic: Pressed Posy-Ring Stand?

[meegs]

Hello Everyone,
Whilst searching for treasure and to the great amusement of the teenagers who also found it necessary to suggest a host of possible uses I found this:
First Photo
It came with large Bagley posy-ring and what I'd assumed was a bloom trough/candle holder.
I've fiddled around with the pieces and put them together like this:
Second Photo

In the back of my mind I can picture seeing  at sometime or another  a smaller trough style vase with a doomed centerpiece and wondering what it was for so not buying it.
Should there be a forth piece to this set or am I imagining this?
Or am I way off track with how I've put the pieces together .....
Meegs

[Bernard C]

Meegs — I thought I'd seen more or less everything Bagley made in coloured glass, but your central support is totally new to me!   As you suspect, it looks to me as if it would support a Quebec bloom trough or something similar at the top.

Both Angela and Pontefract Museum would probably appreciate unoptimised ex-camera together with accurate dimensions and weight, and copyright permission.

My No. 1 candidate for the best glass discovery of 2011  — there's a long way to go yet, but it will take some beating.

Bernard C. 

[meegs]

Bernard,
Thank-you for your post.
I have identified the posy ring as per Angela's book page 46 "...the Bagley ones can be identified by the flat ground ridge that runs lengthways on the bottom....", the colour feel and texture of the other two pieces appears the same although they are not quite as thick or heavy as the large posy ring. The bloom/candle trough is approx 6 1/4 "  in diameter and fits inside the large posy ring. The stand is approx 6 1/2 " tall.
The same vendor was also selling a Bagley Pelican with frog in a large queens choice bowl all in uranium green acid/matt finish which I couldn't purchase fast enough! Now I'm on the lookout for an uranium Elf vase and it sounds like I need to also hunt out a Quebec bloom tray in amber.
Regards
Meegs

[Bernard C]

...   The same vendor was also selling a Bagley Pelican with frog in a large queens choice bowl all in uranium green acid/matt finish which I couldn't purchase fast enough!   ...

Don't forget to reinstate the missing? black plinth.   It sets it off a treat.

Fabulous!

Bernard C.  :mrgreen:

[meegs]

Don't forget to reinstate the missing? black plinth.   It sets it off a treat.

Fabulous!

Bernard C.  :mrgreen:

Absolutely not,  :X: it fits onto one of the wavy ones I already have or there's another item to add to the 'treasure hunt' list!


Meegs

[Bernard C]

Meegs — the correct Bagley plinth has a flat bottom and each side in profile is three swags.   Don't take any notice of the Pontefract Museum website plinths — there are obvious M&Ms (marriages) shown, including at least one Sowerby plinth — Yuk.

See No. 6 in the 1937 Walther catalogue here, courtesy of Pamela — same plinth — Walther probably sold one of their moulds to Bagley or swapped it for something else.

Bernard C.  

[meegs]

Thank-you Bernard for that information.
I will keep an eye out for that plinth.
All the best,
Meegs

[Lustrousstone]

  Now that in uranium would be something. I've never seen the like either.

[Anne]

I've alerted Angela to this topic as she's sure to be interested in seeing this. :thup:

[mhgcgolfclub]

Meegs

Not sure what bowl exactly you will be looking for ,but if it is one of these I may still have this one and you be welcome to it, it may take a little time to locate it



Roy