Topic: antique glass pattern name?

[cordcote]

Hello, any of you good folks know if this pattern has a name at all please? Have seen plenty of Victorian pieces...decanters, vases etc with this continuous circular design. Thank you for any help.

[Ohio]

Unfortunately you don't say where you are from...if you are U.S. its a needle etch, machine made, 1900 to around 1920, probably a hundred different patterns.

[cordcote]

Thank you Ohio for your info. It gives me something to go. I am from England incidentally. Kevin.

[Ivo]

This is the guilloche technique, made possible by mechanical blowing of  cups. As they all had the same size, the decoration could be done in a pantograph which copied the same design onto a dozen glasses at the same time. These glassses have been jn production until circa 1935 - in england, hoLand and germany alike. There are dozens of different patterns - greek key is the best known.

[cordcote]

Thank you Ivo. Most grateful for your help.

[neil53]

Hi, it looks like a piece of Pall Mall glass to me.  They were sold by Woolworths right up to the 1960s.  Any chance of a picture of the whole glass?

[Lustrousstone]

That design is not Pall Mall, but yes a picture of the whole glass would be useful

[neil53]

Hi Christine, there were a number of patterns under the Pall Mall name of which the best well known is the Lady Hamilton pattern of course.  Do you have a list of Pall Mall patterns?

[Lustrousstone]

I understood Pall Mall was Lady Hamilton. I do know there are 100s if not 1000s of machine etched designs

[neil53]

Hi Christine, Lady Hamilton was just one of the Pall Mall patterns when it was originally made - supposedly by Stuart, although others claim that Webb made them.  They were then made in bulk in Bohemia.  There are a number of patterns of similar style and the Lady Hamilton became the most popular by far.