Topic: Georgian? Victorian? Glass with domed pontil mark

[Bernard C]

Anthony — If you were supplying Liberty's, order processing would pick six perfectly matching.   If you were supplying Tin Pot General Store, Anytown, order processing would pick all those oddities at the back of the shelf.   That's the way it's always been, and still is.

The most interesting atlas I ever had through my hands was a mid-Victorian Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas, made up for an insignificant farmer in Derbyshire.   The Derbyshire map and other nearby county maps were fine, but Cornwall and Devon had the wrong county overprints!   As a result the atlas turned out to be really important to cartobibliographers, and gets special mention in recently published county cartobibliographies, such as Eugene Burden's Berkshire and Ray Carroll's Lincolnshire.

I like mixed sets and generally sell them at a premium.   Last year I had a set of Webb Corbett stems, obviously by two different cutters, so I split them into disparate pairs. and sold them all at one fair.   Much more interesting than all the same.

Bernard C. 

[goyjus]

Thanks for this, Bernard.

I tend to agree that difference is more interesting than uniformity...

[bfg]

I've got 2 or 3 of these, all slightly different - I held onto them as they are unsigned and I was never able to get a definitive Webb ID on them. That's almost the whole set, think we only need one more between us :-)

Mel

[goyjus]

Cheers Mel. Maybe if we can find a sixth we can get together and hold a small dinner party ;-)

[keith]

Quick question to Mel and Anthony,do all of your glasses have the same type of pontil mark?

[goyjus]

Yes, my two glasses have the same pontil. But where the base meets the meets the main glass, it's slightly different. And whereas the base on the one is round the other is irregular...

[bfg]

I will have to go off and investigate.............back later :-)

[goyjus]

Great. Thanks. I'll look out for your message...

[bfg]

Ok, well I've dug them out of the garage :-)

two rows of nipples, set on a slight squiff, (similar to the amber ones in the link) the top row being larger nipps than the bottom row

5" tall, 31/2" across the top

slight dome on the underside but no sign of a pontil mark - the base looks machine finished,  with a gadget mark.

This may be why I gave up trying to attribute them as Webb pieces and put them into storage

probably not much help, sorry

Mel

[keith]

Wonder why these small glasses have pontil marks like that by which I mean none I've seen or have are like it,I've quite a few,must get some of these ,all the Webb pieces here have polished pontil marks.