Glass biscuit box, how many colours have you seen this in - Sowerby

by **keramark** September 1st 2011, 9:30 pm

Personally i have seen this box in 3 different colours, how many more are they and which colour is rare !!!. I have seen a clear one, a green one, and this one has a hint of very pale blue to it.

Sowerby & Co. Gateshead - on - Tyne. Biscui10

Sowerby & Co. Gateshead - on - Tyne. Biscui11

Sowerby & Co. Gateshead - on - Tyne. Biscui12

by **skay** September 1st 2011, 10:19 pm

What is it that the man is holding?

xx

by **keramark** September 1st 2011, 10:27 pm

It's a lady, and it's called a Pandora Biscuit Box. The figure is on all four sides and i believe it's a book she is holding. . . Pondering

by **skay** September 1st 2011, 10:37 pm

Oops

not my forte. She's been 'working out' I bet.

xx

by **fuzzyedges** September 1st 2011, 11:14 pm

You can add amber and uranium (unless you class that as green) to this Sowerby barrel

by **keramark** September 2nd 2011, 7:46 am

Uranium Green yes, thank you fuzzyedges .. Happy

by **Potty Primate** September 2nd 2011, 2:22 pm

I'd like to see a uranium one under U.V. lights, I'll bet it's stunning.
If you've seen them in green, this very pale blue, and clear, I'd assume there'd also be an amber and 'sapphire' blue, and possibly a non-uranium 'emerald' green too.

by **fuzzyedges** September 2nd 2011, 4:10 pm

There is possably a pink as this was a popular colour used by Sowerby
The clear is known as flint
The pattern is 2544

by **Potty Primate** September 2nd 2011, 6:10 pm

Which clear one's called flint, fuzzyedges, the one in keramark's photo or the uncoloured clear? I only ask because I'd have said that the one in the photo has a flinty hue.

by **fuzzyedges** September 2nd 2011, 6:25 pm

Sowerby's never refer to clear or uncoloured always to flint in there catalogues
Photos are so deceiving Uranium is nearly always shown with a uv light in pictures whilst in reality they always look draber plus there are colour variations in the the colours dependant on the additives mix

by **Potty Primate** September 2nd 2011, 6:41 pm

Cheers fuzzyedges Excellent

So would the box above be called flint as well as one with less colour in the mix, or is it one of their 'intentional' colourways with its own name?
Please forgive the inquisition, but I love to learn new things, even at my age Cheeky

by **fuzzyedges** September 2nd 2011, 6:52 pm

I can stand a correction but as far as I know all the clear products were called flint
http://www.pressedintime.com/Colours.htm
Explains better than me

by **Potty Primate** September 2nd 2011, 7:00 pm

Brilliant, thank you. Excellent

I'm fascinated by the art (alchemy?) of glass-making. Just the fact that glass is actually a super-cooled liquid I find amazing.

by **fuzzyedges** September 2nd 2011, 7:03 pm

even better when you think of it as sand

by **Potty Primate** September 2nd 2011, 7:13 pm

And that it can arrive ready-made in meteorites and from volcanoes.
Plus, of course, it is one of the very rare early discoveries that China can't lay claim to Big Laughter

by Brittania August 27th 2012, 9:07 am

Is this Sowerby, Bagley or Davidson in your opinion. There is no makers mark at all. I found it very confusing online. Is it 1930's? At certain angles it is very green, so I think it definitely 'uranium' glass. How can I know for sure without one of those purple lights?

Sowerby & Co. Gateshead - on - Tyne. Sowerb10

Sowerby & Co. Gateshead - on - Tyne. Sowerb11

by **bistoboy** August 27th 2012, 9:14 am

don't know if you found it already on line at Rubylane, but there's one that is listed as Sowerby

"circa 1922. It is the documented "Butterflies & Daffodils" pattern No. 2552"

by Brittania August 27th 2012, 9:57 am

haha you are genius! Clap

by **Davee** August 28th 2012, 8:16 pm

I have found a few of these over the years with all the pots and candle sticks, some have been uranium and some not. I don't know any other way of checking apart from using a blacklight Shrugs