Help with a mark on base of footed bowls - Webb Corbett

by **moomingurl** January 25th 2017, 4:09 pm

I can't make this mark out. Any ideas?

Cheers

by **NaomiM** January 25th 2017, 5:28 pm

Part of the mark is missing off the right hand side of the photo

by **moomingurl** January 25th 2017, 6:07 pm

by **moomingurl** January 25th 2017, 6:07 pm

i think it says webb corbett

by **Davee** January 25th 2017, 8:16 pm

It's definitely a Webb Corbett piece of glass, made in Amblecote, Stourbridge. Now sadly no longer in existence.

by **moomingurl** January 26th 2017, 10:10 am

Thanks - do you happen to know the pattern?

by **Davee** January 26th 2017, 12:35 pm

No sorry, I did try searching for it but had no luck. The replacement service websites are probably your best bet.

by **moomingurl** January 26th 2017, 1:39 pm

Okay thanks for replying.

by **Grumpy Grandad** May 22nd 2020, 6:13 am

Webb Corbett Ltd was set up in 1897 by Herbert Webb and Thomas Webb III, grandsons of Thomas Webb, and Harry Corbett (no, not that one!) under the name Thomas Webb & Corbett Ltd, changing to Webb Corbett Ltd. in 1930. It was always a seperate operation from Thomas Webb & Sons.
Webb Corbett's factory was the White House Glass Works at Wordsley, near to Stourbridge, which they took over from B & J Richardson.
They were taken over by Royal Doulton in 1969, the Webb Corbett name continuing in use until 1986. After then the glass was made under the name 'Royal Doulton Crystal'.

This glass is tiny but beautifully proportioned, barely an inch and a half high, so the bowl is about the size of a bottle's screw-cap. The acid-etched mark under the foot was in use from 1930-1947.